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Art Architecture and Design
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Natalie

Nat’s Week 4 Day 1 Update

Revisions!

To start, I worked on correcting my original diagrams.

  • For the Berlin Memorial, I changed the dashed lines to be thinner and also hatched the tops of the columns. I’m now worried that maybe the dashed lines are too thin though.
  • For Spatial City I worked on fixing my line weights (for some reason my “print display” wasn’t working, so it was truly a very frustrating process). Hopefully, I got it this time though, *fingers crossed*.

Iterations!

Afterwards I started working on redoing my three iterations of the Oakland Museum. I actually found working on these versions to be really fun and relaxing! I loved how they turned out.

I really love how the three iterations look next to each other (a bit *obvious* since they are iterations of each other so we’d hope they were a bit cohesive). The middle one is probably the most different, but I still think it works well with the other two.

Eisenman Diagram!

Going into this part of my weekend architecture duties was a bit daunting. Both essays intimidated me at first, but after briefly going over them on Wednesday and then reading them on my own I started to feel better about tackling this assignment.

I decided to focus on the idea of “transformation and registration”. I came up with my own set of “rules” which consisted of breaking down a simple cube into quarters and then varying the elevations, working from outside towards the inner part of the cube. I think this shows how you can have a set of ordered rules and still have something that is dynamic and might not seem to make total sense at a first glance.

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