ARCH 101: Architectural Design Studio I

Section 002: CRN 2: 73879 / Fall 2011 Instructor Jerry W. Lum

Peter Middleton

ARCH 101: Architectural Design Studio I

Section 002: CRN 2: 73879 / Fall 2011 Instructor Jerry W. Lum

Peter Middleton

Iterations 1 + 2

A few days before this exercise was

Iteration 3

Iteration 4

Iteration 5

Iteration 6

Collage 1

Lessons Learned-Minor shapes gather in bunches to create major shapes

especially if intersecting shape is of common back ground color.

-Large imposing shapes peak interest by drawing attention, and complication keeps the attention

-Short sharp objects create “breaks” in the flowing movement of the other shapes. Also since seem to slice through the

flying pillows.

Continue to work through the parts where you feel stagnant and stuck. Sometime take a break and come back to your

work refreshed. Sometime multiple days are best to bring an idea out.

Things to improve-Trying to move some of the images off of the page would help keep the eye wandering and the mind guessing. The human mind naturally once items go off page or wonder.

Continue to work through the parts where you feel stagnant and stuck. Sometime take a break and come back to your

work refreshed. Sometime multiple days are best to bring an idea out.

Collage 2

Use patterns and deconstruction of individual sections to bring attention to those areas. Keep the deconstruction flowing and moving all over the page! Make sure the deconstruction is

intentional for that specific section as this will become one of the focal points of the composition.

Collage 3

Up until this point my constructions were made in an annoyingly messy but easy to work fast manner. I cut out all of my images before even considering how to use them. I looked for fun common shapes and other things I could break down into usable parts. After my critiques in class, I spent a lot of time online with www.localdistance.org + www.icif.ru/engl/cyc/index.htm#1 + www.issuu.com/jlum/docs/

tectonic_frame_expressions which helped me understand intent.

In Collage 3 I had a lot more difficulty creating the shapes and movements I wanted to. In doing this more difficult, more intentional style, I struggled then forgot the overall composition while fixating on the other problems. I consider this a failure but one I learned a lot of lessons on taking only exactly

what I wanted and putting it into a plan I had before attacking the paper. I gave up when I discovered that I needed an underlay of the

This is another example that Was a failure because of framing. It lacked the large shapes which gave Collage 1 and Collage 2

Collage 4

Play!

While in class discussing trace I just really wanted to see some of the other shapes

people were having emerge in their collages as well. I

snagged two quickly and did my work which I was happy to see. The larger sketch on the

far left is just an

Play!...2

Top right and bottom right: Quick studies for shape identification and

ideation.

Far left: sketch is a study to help

understand shapes found in that object and its construction which I hope to tie back into

my constructions.

Notes