Found this video useful when improving the Floor Plan. After having the lecture on orthographic drawings, there were some mistakes that I noticed and needed changing. Obviously this meant I had to redrawn the plans. Basic things that I had missed were:
This time around however, I had identified the issues and learnt specific architectural notations that I can incorporate to improve the deawing. In hindsight, it seems like a very simple principle and it is extremely necessary to apply to my work. When drawing the plan, it is very useful to visualise the lines that I drew and review them to see if they were feasible and made sense. In order to do this more effectively and produce an accurate plan, I sought for multiple plans in books and online as well as watching videos of people's journeys through the house. In doing this I was able to identify even more serious faults that I had recognised the first time around. An example of how an accurate plan varied from the CAD is shown in Fig.1 compared to Fig.2. In order to draw the plan in Fig.2, I measured the sizes from the plans found in books and considered the shapes of the structure that I could see in photos and videos. It really is important to check things in the plan from a variety of sources. Having the CAD template was useful but in the end I essentially ended up redrawing the most of the plan with new measurements and shapes.
In studio, we were given a lecture on orthographic drawings. This lecture was specifically done after most of us, myself included had already begun or completed their orthographic drawings. This was so that we could self evaluate our work and pick out the faults that we had made. In the lecture we were informed about various rules and keys that need to be included in architectural orthographic drawings. In a sense, it is good to view the components of architectural drawings as a language. Using the right notations, symbols and markings will make the drawings eligible, clear and adaptable to others. After the lecture finished, it was then down to us to amend and improve our own drawings. I could definitely spot some areas for improvement in my own.
In my group I took up the role of drawing up the floor plans for Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House. Firstly I placed tracing paper over the CAD drawing and then began to trace the lines. In doing this, I noticed that there where a few aspects of the CAD drawing that were inaccurate and therefore, I had to distinguish the faults and correct them by using plans of the house from other sources.
Today's studio session with the group today turned out quite productive. Despite a couple of struggles with computers and printers, we were able to print of the CAD templates for each of our orthographic drawings and a few of us shortly started off with our drawings. Others of us started with research on Farnsworth House and Mies van der Rohe. Additionally we also got our blog up and running, the link is http://farnsworthhouse.weebly.com/.
Today we received our first project brief that we will be working on until our deadline, 16th October. For this project we have been put into groups of six members. For this project, each group has been given a a building to work on.
The brief was to present the building we have been tasked with on an A1 panel containing our drawings and information about the building and architect. Additionally we must create a blog, keeping a long of our work as a team, research and our progression throughout the process leading up to the deadline. The criteria for which drawings must be included on the panel are as follows:
I came to be put into Group 11 and we have been tasked with Farnsworth House, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Straight away we decided to share out the work between us and decide who wants to do which drawings and begin some research on the Mies and his building. |
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