EXCERCISE 1
Reflection
Receiving only the descrpitions and the photographs, my group had by far, the hardest task. Without any secion plans or site plans to work on, we could only guess at what the layout of the buildings would be on the site. Technical information, such as site dimensions, distances between windows and descritopn of the types of roofing and windows using architectural jargon made it difficult for me to visualise what exactly the buildings would look like.
The proportioning was the least of my concerns when i did this task, and the main aim was to try to find rough estimations of the sizes of each building and their relative layouts and relationships to each other.
Issues with the source I was given was the fact that the detail in descriptons as well as clarity depleted as they continued from descriptions of buildings A through to E. Because they became more and more vague, it was hard to figure out what was the more important information within the text- the numerical values or the word descriptions.
I believe that, in order to properly visualise a building in 3D and convey it to others in the architectural workforce, is to provide one with section plans, elevation plans, photos and descriptive notes all together in a compendium so it would be easier to comprehend and analyse.
Each type of information works well when presented together, but when split apart, on their own, it is both meaningless and difficult for the reader to comprehend or visualize because of incomplete or insufficient resources.
The process:
My tutorial class received the text that described the orientation of the buildings, as well as accompanying photos that did not indicate what part of the building it was actually showing, and to put it bluntly, it was a very painful task!
The information that was given to us included a large amount of measurements such as lengths of each building as well as descriptions with architectural jargon I haven't touched on yet. Part of the problem here was the comprehension and the piecing together of the information and translating it into, first, a 2D drawing then a 3D drawing in the end.
Even within the three hour allocated time to do the task, it was very slow and tedious to get a 3D sketch out of the information.
The first thing tried to do was set out a plan of the site, indicating the roads and the North-South orientation of the site. I added the measurements of the site and the roads that bounded it as a starting point, and noted that the street was sloped, with a difference of 2m from north to south. This was the most easiest to understand initially.
The next bit of information however, confused me greatly. The description was two 2-3 storey "twin buildings" in the plan, and I assumed initially that there would be only two buildings, with a smaller one joining the two. However, in acutality it was a pair of twin towers, with an overall number of 6 buildings on the site
This was the initial building orientation I was thinking of when I read the text, and from this basic design, I decided to move ahead and work on the first described building, Building A. I added all the features and technical measurements I could into the diagrams as shown below, with the dimensions of the building in millimetres and window widths and features.
I was concerned with all the technical information and measurements that the description had given me, and eventually it became very cluttered and confusing. One problem was also that I had the building orientation wrong, and I didn't know the shared wall that all the buildings were aligned to was on the east, not the west.
After noticing the decrease in detailed descriptions within the
paragraphs, it became harder for me to see how all the buildings were
oriented in relation to each other.
measurements
and accuracy and made a rough sketch of the floor plan based on the word
description rather than the numerical descriptions.
Eventually, by skimming through the following text to find relative positions of each building, I fleshed out the floor plan of the site as shown below.
What stumped me the most about the plan was the central building C, which was supposed to join Buildings B and D together. Building B was also confusing to comprehend as the description stated that the man building B was an L shape, whereas the third and top floor was a U shape. Without the help of the photos accompanying the text of the building, I would not have been able to comprehend what on earth it would have looked like.
Once I figured out the basic layout of the buildings on the site, I did a rough sketch of the buildings in the 3D plane to help me better visualise what it looks like from the text desriptions, albeit the dimensions are horribly out of scale!
Below is a redrawing of the central area, with Buildings B and C. Because I was stumped with the design regarding the U and L shapes in the building, this drawing helps me to understand it a bit better.
After finding the simple shape and layout of the buildings on the 3d Plane, I eventually figured out the correct floor plan and building orientation. Below is a more detailed 3D picture and a site plan that I drew after collecting all the information, to a more "reasonable" scaling.
very good
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