3rd workshop - model it - norman fisher house

Building: Norman Fisher House

Architect: Louis Kahn

Scale: 1:50

The purpose of this exercise was to model the Norman Fisher House focusing on the exterior facades, as well as challenging us to build a model that could open up so you could explore the internal spaces.

I chose to use 2 different materials in the model, balsa for wood, and a boxboard cardboard material to express the stoney brick material.

Below is a sequence if images showing the process of the model opening up to expose the interiors. I used walls that extended between floors as an anchor for the floors.

3rd workshop - model it - norman fisher house site model

Building: Norman Fisher House

Architect: Louis Kahn

Scale: 1:200

The purpose of this exercise was to build a site model of the Norman Fisher House focusing on the surrounding landscape.

I wanted to use a minimal amount of materials, just using cardboard for the landscape. ANd instead of using contours, I used section cuts for the internal structure, and layered carboard over the section to get the approximate form of the landscape.

3rd workshop - model it - church of light

Building: Church of Light
Architect: Tadao Ando

Scale: 1:100

3rd workshop - model it - detailed corner

Building: Norman Fisher House
Architect: Louis Kahn
Scale: 1:50

The purpose of this exercise was to focus on a particular corner section of the Fisher House. The challenge was to understand the corner based on plans and sections and photos available to us, and to then model the corner.

3rd workshop - model it - process modelling

The purpose of this exercise was to use modelling as part of a design process. We used a set section that had to be incoporated into the model somewhere, as well as using a predetermined set. I used the concept of solid and void.

1st process model

2nd process model

final model - 1st view

final model - alternate view

3rd workshop - model it - intersecting houses

The purpose of this exercise was to build 3 similar houses, and find interesting ways of cutting out voids, and finding various methods of combing the 3 houses together.

2nd workshop - architectural drawing - final assignment

For our major assignment we had to interpret the plans and sections of the Rose Seidler House, and to redraw them as architecural presentation drawings.

We had to reproduce 2 plans, 2 sections, and 2 elevations. We also had to create a 3D perspective drawing on any aspect of the house. I decided to draw a perspective section of the house.

I wanted to convey a very minimal image of the house, using minimal line weights, and only highlighting the important aspects of the house when necessary. I chose to do a perspective section of the house focusing on the deck and mural as I felt that this was an important aspect of the house.

2nd workshop - architectural drawing - rose seidler house and science lawn exercise

Our next task was to draw a perspective of the Rose Seidler House, designed by Harry Seidler, and to relocate the building onto the Science Lawn of UNSW as a background, to learn how to use eye and scale to incoporate the images together.

2nd workshop - architectural drawing - 1 point

Using perspective skills developed in class we then had to draw an aspect of UNSW in 1 point and 2 point perspectives and then to render it.

With the 2 images, I drew free hand so that I could experiment and get better at free hand drawing. I also wanted to experiment with using black ink pen to render images. I used a few different styles of hatch to experiment with the texture, and to see how different textures give a different material quality.

1 point



2 point

2nd workshop - architectural drawing - class perspective exercises

Perspective exercises done in class

2nd workshop - architectural drawing - teacups

Our first in class task was to draw a section, plan and elevation of a teacup and then to render it.

1st workshop - experimental modelling - assignment 3

For our final to ask we had to draw on our experiences throughout the workshop to create a poster and model that incoporated ideas that had been covered during the workshop, and using balsa wood as a material.

i decided to create a 3D poster based on Sydney's skyline as a background. Firstly a had a black and white image of the skyline. Then using the same image but a slightly darker version, I cute th eposter into strips along edges generated by buildings. I then stuck teh strips slightly juxtaposed off each other to discuss the ideas of "folds" further and howfolds in architecture could be seen as the edges created by facades of buildings.

I then created a second layer using the same image but this time using colour, and selecting certain buildings and folding the image so that it became 3D which i then would stick over the back and white images.

Finally the last layer I created using balsa wood. i used panels of the wood to reflect the surfaces of the buildings, and joined the panels using different joining techniques to discuss the ideas of 'folds' further. I then experimented with different techniques of treating balsa on the panels itself.

1st workshop - experimental modelling

For this task we had to take an aspect of the urban city and relate it to a a sense and then create a collage based on this experience.

I decided to comment on the advertising and media present on the facades of architecture, and how in today's consumer society, we're bombarded by endless amount of advertising media that it all becomes a blur. I also wanted to comment on how we sometimes no longer identify certain buildings anymore as a piece of architecture, but rather by the media that is present on the building. For example, the building on the corner of Kings Cross is identified as the coke building ratehr than identifying the building for its architecture.

We then had to make a model based on the ideas generated by the poster. I decided to use cut out strips of metal using coke cans and then joining 4 strips together by folding the ends on each other to form a square ring, and I then link all the squares together to form a metallic like next sturcture.

1st workshop - experimental modelling - assignment 1

For our first assignment we had to create a model using white mountboard as a material. We had to read a philosophical text and study a piece of art or achitecture and draw inspiration from the two pieces of work to create a model.

My inspiration was drawn from the following:
- "The Fold: Leibniz and the baroque' by Gilles Deleuze
- The Dominus Winery by Herzog and de Meuron
- Gordon Matta Clark - Splitting

I wanted to create a sculpture that echoed the winery in form and structure, but using the material white mountboard and using folded strips. Then to further transform the sculture further by creating divisions in the architecture to echo the ideas drwan from the work "Splitting" by Gordon Matta Clark.