Author: Robert Zagaroli 3rd (Page 3 of 4)

Class Info

• Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2020
• Meeting via Zoom: Link and passcode will be provided to all students via email

To-Do Before Class

Complete all To-Do items, Activities, and Assignments from the Class 1 – 5 Agendas and SUBMIT to the appropriate link on the Assignment Posts page. Use the checklist of assignments and the Gradebook to check for missing items.

Objectives

• Review status of assignments to date
• Introduce Project 1 – plans, elevations, and section of a Tiny House

Activities

• Review the list of assignments and check which assignments are marked as received in the OpenLab Gradebook
• Accept the emailed invitation to the shared Google sheet
  • Enter your name and your plan for work to be completed today during class
  • We will work in groups to support team members’ work and progress
  • Share at least one example of your work with your small group members, provide feedback to each member — what is most successful, what could be improved
• Review of the “Describe your Building” assignment: this can be the building you brought to share in Class 2, or another you choose, or your Tiny House. Write a few sentences using architectural themes, concepts, and vocabulary that we have studied. What is the human experience of the building and spaces? What is it about the building that creates those feelings and experiences?
  • There are good examples from your descriptions of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water — it conveys a sense of serenity, feelings of being both cozy and open, a sense of the power of the stream, an equilibrium between nature and the man-made, feelings both of security and freedom.
  • Try to go further, as some of you did, to think about why and how the building conveys these things — the materials help it blend into the environment, appearing like a cliff; use of the same materials inside and outside give a feeling of connection with nature; the concrete cantilevers give a strong sense of horizontality, also of strength and stability; the use of color helps it come together as a cohesive whole.
• Begin Project 1 — Tiny House
  • Make freehand sketches of your chosen Tiny House — or you may use the small house show in the PowerPoint. If you have caught up with earlier assignments, work to complete two elevations. (If you want to work forward, also add a plan and a section.)
  • Estimate and add dimensions, similar to the dimensions on the small house in the PowerPoint.
• SUBMIT all in-class work at the appropriate link on the Assignment Posts page

To-Do After Class

• Project 1 — freehand sketches
  • Complete the freehand sketches of the two elevations of your Tiny House (or of the small house shown in the PowerPoint)
  • Add a plan and a section, with dimensions
• Project 1 — drafted measured drawings
  • Lay out the two elevations on an 11 x 17 sheet
  • Use the new title block shown in the PowerPoint (page 38)
  • Draw to 1/4″ scale
  • Align drawings on the sheets as we did with the furniture drawings
  • If you want to work ahead, add the plan and section
• Work on line quality in both the freehand sketches and the drafted measured drawings (review Top 6 Architecture Sketching Techniques)
• Work on using line weights for clarity:
  • heavier lines for borders, outlines, ground lines, and where material is cut through in section (walls, floor, ceiling/roof)
  • medium and lighter lines for parts further away, details, textures, shadow

• Submit Project 1 sketches and drafted drawings — all progress as of midnight, Monday, October 19 — to the Class 6 Homework assignments link on the Assignment Posts page

Class Info

• Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2020
• Meeting via Zoom: Link and passcode will be provided to all students via email

To-Do Before Class

Complete all To-Do items, Activities, and Assignments from the Class 1 – 4 Agendas and SUBMIT to the appropriate link on the Assignment Posts page. Use the checklist of assignments emailed just prior to class to check for missing items.

Objectives

• Apply architectural concepts, principles, and vocabulary
• Introduce architectural section drawings

Activities

• Demonstrate understanding of concepts, principles, and vocabulary terms through application to a building analysis — Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water
  • open class discussion
  • write a few sentences about this building — how many ways does it express the themes of horizontality and integration with its natural setting? What do you like or dislike about the building and why?
• Study the Week 4-5 PowerPoint slides to understand architectural section drawings. Practice by sketching:
  • the section through the pepper shown on the PowerPoint slide
  • a section through the Whitney Museum building
  • use proper line weights: heavy lines where material is cut through (wall of the pepper, and walls, floor and ceiling slabs of the building) and lighter lines for parts further away
• Slides related to the above activities are included in the Week 4-5 PowerPoint
• SUBMIT in-class writing and sketches at the link on the Assignment Posts page

To-Do After Class

• Complete the section sketches begun in class
• Practice by sketching sections and plans of a coffee mug, cooking pot, table, chair, or other simple objects at home (5 sketches)
• Add a SECTION to your measured drawings of the desk or item of your choice
• Write into your sketchbook the following vocabulary terms from class, with definitions in your own words (and/or an annotated sketch or image);
  • cantilever
  • eave
  • waffle slab
• Search “tiny house” in Google images, choose the one that you find most interesting, and upload it to this “tiny house” folder
• Submit all in-class work and Class 5 homework to the appropriate link on the Assignment Posts page

Class Info

• Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2020
• Meeting via Zoom: Link and passcode will be provided to all students via email

To-Do Before Class

Complete all To-Do items, Activities, and Assignments from the Class 1 – 3 Agendas and SUBMIT to the appropriate link on the Assignment Posts page

Announcement

• NO CLASSES on MONDAY, September 28
• Monday classes meet on Tuesday, September 29
• Our class WILL NOT MEET on Tuesday, September 29!
• Our next assignments will be due midnight, Monday October 5

Objectives

• Apply architectural concepts, principles, and vocabulary
• Practice sketching: 1-point and 2-point perspective, elevation, plan
• Understand the use of architectural scale

Activities

• Demonstrate understanding of concepts, principles, and vocabulary terms through discussion and application to a building analysis — Marcel Breuer’s Whitney Museum (aka Met Breuer)
• In-class sketching assignments — continue to develop architectural sketching techniques, practice 1-point and 2-point perspective, elevations sketches, derivation of plan from photographs of Breuer’s Whitney Museum
• Slides related to the above activities are included in the Week 4 PowerPoint (REVISED 09-27-20)
• SUBMIT in-class sketches at the link on the Assignment Posts page

To-Do After Class

• Complete the measured drawings of the furniture item — the desk or item of your choice — three views with border, title block, and graphic scale as shown in class and described in the Week 4 PowerPoint
• Write into your sketchbook the six tips from the video “Top 6 Architectural Sketching Techniques” if you have not already done so. Now illustrate each tip with a quick sketch, for example:
  • several lines from very light to very heavy line weight
  • a simple cube or rectilinear mass drawn in one-, two-, and three-point perspective
  • etc. for tips #1 – #6
  • Practice!
• SUBMIT in-class sketches and Class 4 homework to the appropriate link on the Assignment Posts page