Mengying(Bonnie) ZHOU

2009年9月28日星期一

Workshop 2 Atlas of color

Self reflection:

This workshop involves students entering the color world, introducing to color theory and visual language. In my opinion, I have found this is the most difficult workshop I have done. It has lots of homework. One of my hardest experience was working on a collage for a building‘s plan and section. I cut hundreds of small pieces from magazines, and arranged in a dark to light color tone. It is a huge job to carefully select the right color tone from all kinds of magazines. I soon became a color blind and roughly finished the collage. After this special experience, I realize that doing all this kind of homework is not concern about how to finish as soon as possible. You should enjoy and learn something from it. I hope next time with this type of assignment I will find it more enjoyable.

2009年8月19日星期三

Workshop 1 Fluid thoughts and movements to actions

This is my firsh drawing which I used charcoal and pastal mix together.

The second drawing is also a charcoal drawing with white water colour on the top to make the main object stand more forward.

collage with charcoal

Homework 1

A corner

Charcoal drawing with pastal

After I made the background in a dark tone and the right hand side wall in a middle tone, the desk suddenly stands out. On the top of this page, I chosed to use white charcoal drawing the books and other stuff again without looking. It was totally a massive, lines are expended everywhere. I fixed it at the end.

water colour drawing

water colour drawing by using dots

water colour drawing (Objects)

watercolour drawing (different position)

water colour drawing + charcoal (transparence)

Homework 2

water colour dawing on one house in 3 different views

5 water colour drawings mix with charcoal

a pure charcoal drawing on the right hand

charcoal drawing on the top

water colour drawing underneath

Homework 3

This is my final homework. First I drew a water colour drawing on the horizonal way, then used charcoal, drew a different perspective about the musium on the vertial. Finaly, I used white charcoal on the top of the drawing again.

Self reflection:

This workshop introduces students to drawing the built environment in a heap of different ways. This includes the various aspects of drawing fundamentals. From taking this workshop, I have learned as a modern architect you should always be creative. This is my experience combining water color painting with charcoal, and blind contour which is a new term for me. In this workshop found that the drawing of the built environment can go beyond the familiar watercolor medium. There is nothing wrong to stick on normal, but it is not an immutable concept for architectural study.

2009年6月21日星期日

Final EX3

I designed a quite big space for Obama, occupies the whole bridge on the top. The idea for this shape is come from my H shape drawings.

My meeting place is not just a single place for Obama and Madonna to meet. It is also a place they can both use for their different purpose, such as for public meeting, or for concert. Because I used marble mostly, so the whole structure looks little bit in Roman style.