Foods Lab-Tennis

Concept: Tennis

In studio we just finished working on our second project of the three projects we will be doing all semester.  We had to re design the foods lab kitchen that the nutrition students utilize for learning.  The whole entire kitchen had to be sustainable and the professor gave us a list of all of the appliances and spatial needs she wanted.   The concept for the kitchen had to be a productive system, and I chose tennis.  I wanted to convey the rhythmic movement in tennis through my design, and focused on continuity, fluidity, and movement.  Two workstations which allowed for ten students at each station created an "L" shape in the middle of the space, allowing for easy access to all ingredients and appliance, and plenty of room for all students to be comfortable as they work, and for the teacher to be able to teach and demonstrate as well.

Below are a few perspectives that I drew of my finished space.

 

Foods Lab Process

Here are some of the sketches from my Foods Lab journal that convey some of my thought process throughout the whole project.  The color scheme of the kitchen was a huge issue when I was figuring out the details of my design.  I knew what I wanted the kitchen to look like and how energized and exciting I wanted it to be, but  I wasn't sure exactly how I was going to go about conveying all of these ideas.  I didn't want the room to be too over powering and bright to the point of making the people inside of the space sick, and overwhelmed.  I finally came up with the color scheme of the middle cabinet example below.  

I knew that Anna specifically said she didn't really want cabinets, however for awhile I played around with the thought of still including them within the design, but later got ride of the whole idea, and moved more towards open shelves beneath the workstations.

Final Entenza House Composition

As our last assignment for the the Entenza house unit, we had to create an 18x24 composition that included the following:  floor plan, 1 perspective, section and elevation section, which are all of the drawings we have been working on throughout the last few weeks.  

Case Study Floor Plan

This is my rendered floor plan of the Entenza House Case Study #9.

Case Study:Case Study Axonometric's

We have been working with the case study: Entenza House Case Study #9 for the past few weeks in visual communication.  This week we had to complete two axonometric views of the house, one was to be rendered in strictly pencil and was supposed to portray a grey scale.  The other rendered in markers and colored pencil.

I mostly used markers, and used colored pencils and cool gray's to convey shadows, which turned out to work really well.

Section A of Case Study

This section was selected from the Case Study Plan, which I will be posting soon.  We had to render the section as a mid term for our drawing class, and we were supposed to convey how we have grown in our rendering skills.

Color Study

For project 7, our assignment was to choose one of Maud Gaetweood paintings and utilize the paintings set of colors as inspiration for the perspectives we created in sketchup.  Then we had to trace our sketchup perspectives and render them in the colors from the painting we chose.  However each perspective had to be different.  One had to be a loose drawing, where you get

the general idea of the perspective, not worrying about accuracy, the other was supposed to be in between an accurate and a loose drawing and the last was supposed to be a perfectly rendered perspective.

Above is the Maud Gatewood painting that I used as my inspiration for the set of colors for my perspectives.  I picked this painting because I thought that it had a lot of variety and it expressed Maud's painting style very well.

This is my loose drawing, where I used very quick strokes to get the general idea of the furniture and shapes and textures.  I did this drawing on sketch paper, which has a very different reaction to the Prisma colors markers than the vellum that I used for the last two drawings.  The sketch paper absorbs the markers a lot more making the colors have a different tone to them as opposed to when using vellum.
In this drawing I focused a little more on my line weight and making sure that the lines were more accurate than the drawing above.  I took more time on the drawing.
This is my final drawing where I used a ruler my drafting board to make sure the lines were perfect and that everything was accurate.  I focused on line weight and worked on perfecting the furniture look not only in drawing and rendering them but also adding textures.