Tuesday, June 05, 2007

FINAL PIN-UP AT HADLOW

Here is the result of a whole year work...not bad...not bad at all :-)
I'm looking forward to the barbecue on Thursday to celebrate the end of the degree!
See you there and good luck with your presentation!







Friday, May 04, 2007

SEQUENTIAL SKETCHES AT NIGHT

Here are my perpsective sketches at night with views of the exhibition space and of the sunken playground: these are the only areas accessible to the public at night and have light fittings which enhance the geometric shapes and harsh edges of my design. Ok, now I need to work on the final rendered plan and add key + notes + and site context...am I the only one to be so behind?????????









SKETCHES WITH SEASONAL CHANGE

These are the sketches showing seasonal change I was talking about in my last post: I chose the sketch with the best view of the exhibition space and I have rendered it to show the effect I would like to get in spring, summer and autumn. The almond trees and the Judas Trees provide variation with a stunning flowering display in spring and their leaves colour well in autumn. The underlayer of vegetation is mainly formed by evergreen shrubs such as Teucrium fruticans, Convolvulus cneourm, Rosemary, Agave, Cistus x cyprius etc, etc. Now I need to do a couple of sketches with lighting effects at night....





Thursday, May 03, 2007

SEQUENTIAL SKETCHES

This is the final version of my sequential sketches: I have rendered them with the same technique as the one used for my sections and my plan.
I'm happy with the technique I think it works well with my concept. Now I would like to prepare a couple of sketches at night and then 4 views showing seasonal change throughout the year.....there so much to dooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

Good luck everybody!

















Saturday, April 28, 2007

SEQUENTIAL SKETCHES

This is the final version of my sequential sketches: I have scanned the rough ones I had drawn last month and I went over them with photoshop, then I printed them and coloured them with crayons, pencils and watercolours. This is just one example of 12 ready for Monday.




Mi sento veramente felice oggi! :)

Monday, April 23, 2007

SECOND ATTEMPT TO RENDER 1:200 PLAN



Here is a really bad scanned image of my 1:200 plan which I rendered with the same technique as the one used for the sections. It looks rough but it is in tune with he style of the sections and it gives that natural feeling which I'm trying to communicate with my concept and with my design proposal.
I'll to the same for the sequential sketches!

Saturday, April 21, 2007

THE LIFE OF OTHERS



This is a great film I saw on Thursday to celebrate my 28th birthday: it plays in east Berlin at the time of the wall and deals with a couple of artists, a dramatist and an actress, who begin to be spied by the Stasi (the police the DDR used to control conspirations and people trying to escape to west Berlin). The Stasi policeman involved in the spying process gets more and more emotionally involved with the lives of the couple until there is a big surprise at the end of the movie.
I love Berlin, I've lived there for one year and I found everything related to it fascinating. It has been a nice evening, a moving story, a good way to practice my rusty German and, above all, a nice break from college work!!!!
See you all on Monday, have a nice weekend!
F

Friday, April 20, 2007

RENDERED SECTIONS




These are the two sections of my 1:200 detail area: I'm finally happy with the rendering technique and I'm going to use it for the sequential sketches too: I have drawn the section by hand first, then I scanned it as a jpeg file. Then I added all the features (trees, shrubs, aquatic plants) with photoshop in black and white and then I printed it.
Finally I coloured them with all sorts of drawing tools: coloured pencils, crayons, oil pastels, chalks, watercolours, watercolour pencils, one on top of the other.
It is quite timeconsuming but it is worth the effort. Good luck everybody with your work and see you on Monday!