2009年10月22日星期四

Workshop 3 Architecture in motion

Concept:

The dramatis persona of this story is a new architecture student of UNSW, standing in the front of the faculty, Red Center. She looks around, feels very excited. Ruler, scissors are symbols of pressure, suddenly dropping from the sky. While at this time, the protagonist understands the hardship of studying architecture. Then she carries all of this heavy equipment into the building, waits for an elevator with a group of people. After a long time, the elevator still does not come. Fortunately, fewer and fewer people are waiting for the elevator; finally, these are only 3 people, she and other 2. After another while, the elevator arrives. But it is full of people. Crowd pushes her far away from the elevator. When she realizes, the other group of people come. Suddenly the elevator is full of people again. In the front of her, the door closes. Luckily, the dramatis persona finds there is a hallway next to the elevator, slants toward the other side of this building. Then the dramatis persona goes along this aisle up to Level M.” How an open, quite place it is! I can do my model here.” The dramatis persona feel helpless while there is at least a hint of surprise at end.

Self reflection:

This workshop involves a time-based method of manual architectural representation by creating a 20 seconds imaginative spatial movie occurring in our Red Center. I was fully convinced there is no short way for any study. I spend a whole weekend drawing my movie background. There are a hundred and ten A4 pictures I have done at that stage. At the end I really could not persist in the drawings any more. Then I bought a wooden man from a design shop and took photos of the movement of the wooden man. Finally my 20 seconds movie completed. However my teacher was very angry. It was not satisfied in this workshop as it also contents drawing skill. My heart broke. I was mainly concentrate on the movie and had not touched any other homework at this stage. What an awful experience I have been through. This awful experience tells me if you take short cuts, you will end up with perdition.