Sunday, June 2, 2013
Sources
If you're wondering where any of this information came from so you can go off and do your own research on the wonder that is futurist architecture, these sources may help you out:
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Peter B. Lewis Building
Futurist architecture tends to not be boring to look at, so for the next part of our project, I got some proof of that:
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And now for the interior!
These are all pictures I stole off of google images of the Peter B. Lewis Building at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio. It's a prime example of futurist architecture, and for more information you can listen to this podcast:
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And now for the interior!
These are all pictures I stole off of google images of the Peter B. Lewis Building at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio. It's a prime example of futurist architecture, and for more information you can listen to this podcast:
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Interior of the building
You've now seen the outside of this wonderous building, so you may be confused as to what it would be used for. Turns out, it's a prison! Actually it was supposed to be business building, but then we got this project to draw a one point perspective drawing of a room, without being told that it had to be the interior of out model. My drawing ended up being of a prison, and considering it featured a disco ball, which is a perfect match for the model, I figured it would be easy enough to just turn my building into a prison. Anyway, now this prison is not only in the shape of a spaceship and super shiny; it's also the home to several disco balls.
Our assignment was to draw a room from one point perspective and have it feature at least 2 objects. Mine, being a prison, has a toilet that can be seen from inside the cell, many bars for the cell wall, a guard chair with a paper cup sitting near it, and of course, the disco ball. The weird thing with this, was that while everything was supposed to be drawn in perspective with one point, the blocks of light coming from the disco ball had to be drawn in perspective with the center of the disco ball.
Our assignment was to draw a room from one point perspective and have it feature at least 2 objects. Mine, being a prison, has a toilet that can be seen from inside the cell, many bars for the cell wall, a guard chair with a paper cup sitting near it, and of course, the disco ball. The weird thing with this, was that while everything was supposed to be drawn in perspective with one point, the blocks of light coming from the disco ball had to be drawn in perspective with the center of the disco ball.
Monday, May 20, 2013
SKETCHUP
As there are no pictures of the model standing straight up, a SketchUp will have to do:
The SketchUp was the next part of the project, and many of us soon learned that there are some things that are much easier to make in real life than on a computer. Apperently, SketchUp promotes uniformity among all architecture, as it basically had the basic square and circle shapes and no easy way to differ from those. Needless to say, it was difficult to get the basic shape of mine, and as far as I can tell, it would have been nearly impossible to create the non-flat top that appears on the real model. So, no, this is not a perfect representation of the real thing, but at least it's not collapsed under the weight of a billion mirrors.
The SketchUp was the next part of the project, and many of us soon learned that there are some things that are much easier to make in real life than on a computer. Apperently, SketchUp promotes uniformity among all architecture, as it basically had the basic square and circle shapes and no easy way to differ from those. Needless to say, it was difficult to get the basic shape of mine, and as far as I can tell, it would have been nearly impossible to create the non-flat top that appears on the real model. So, no, this is not a perfect representation of the real thing, but at least it's not collapsed under the weight of a billion mirrors.
Futurist Building- Process
As you may notice, my model basically looks like an unknown shape covered in mirrors. That's because it is. I can't say I drew a sketch first, or even had any idea of what I was going to build other than I wanted it to be about the shape of the Boomerang logo from Cartoon Network. I ended up just covering a bunch of newspaper with duct tape to form the initial shape, and then disco ball-afied it with every single small, square, mirror the Micheals I went to had. Anyway, this caused it to be only newspaper on the inside, but having to support the weight of a whole bunch of mirrors on the outside, which just might have something to do with it tipping backwards and looking like a spaceship taking off. I don't have any pictures of it when it was standing straight up, but I assure you- It was quite defiant of physics. Unfortunately, in the end, gravity won as always, but the nails I used to attach the duct tape and newspaper sculpture to the base board held up well enough to keep in verticalish.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Futurist Architecture
Back in the early 20th century a bunch of super artsy Italians started a futurism movement founded around the idea of bringing ideas of the future into art. Architecture, being a subcategory of art, was destined to become part of this movement, and eventually it did, which is the reason for any war or machine age technology themed buildings you may see. These structures were supposedly supposed to represent the people's hopes and dreams for the future, but as the genre originated around the time of World War 1, some are just gruesome depictions of war.
You would think, considering the fancy technology displayed in these buildings is now well outdated, that the futurist style of architecture would have ended by now, but no. As time goes by, futurism moves on to display more modern ideas of the future, as well as showing up in some other genres like googie or art deco. Basically anything that stands out as ahead of the times could be placed in the futurist category Currently, there is a post modern futurism style of architecture, which features spacecraft and sci-fi themes. This is what I ended up devoting a few hours of my life into making a super mind-blowingly accurate model of. Here's the result:
You would think, considering the fancy technology displayed in these buildings is now well outdated, that the futurist style of architecture would have ended by now, but no. As time goes by, futurism moves on to display more modern ideas of the future, as well as showing up in some other genres like googie or art deco. Basically anything that stands out as ahead of the times could be placed in the futurist category Currently, there is a post modern futurism style of architecture, which features spacecraft and sci-fi themes. This is what I ended up devoting a few hours of my life into making a super mind-blowingly accurate model of. Here's the result:
Friday, May 3, 2013
Collage!
We started out our journey towards architectural genius with a simple collage. Well, it may have seemed simple but in reality it was packed with centuries of mathematical research and observations all incorporated into a visually appealing, single piece of paper.
The golden ratio, approximately 1.618, appears in a variety of shapes and objects, from a average rectangle to the face of the Mona Lisa. The assignment was to represent the golden ratio in as many ways as possible in a collage. Simple right? Actually yes, it was; scribbling random golden rectangles, spirals, or any other shape that seemed fun to draw onto the paper and then taping a couple of pictures on pretty much got the job done.
I chose to start with a piece of paper, 5 by 8, which is a very simple, inaccurate version of such an extraordinary ratio, and drew lines in it to form perfect curves all the way around. I then was able to draw a smaller golden rectangle in the middle of the oval I had just formed. Inside this, I drew a golden spiral, which wasn't a very good golden spiral due to the approximation that I had made earlier in the process, and wrote out the golden ratio around the edges. Finally, I glued in pictures of a sunflower, apple logo, a violin, and the Mona Lisa, all of which were designed around the idea of the golden ratio. Well, I guess the sunflower wasn't exactly designed by anyone... Anyway, it turned out acceptably well.
The golden ratio, approximately 1.618, appears in a variety of shapes and objects, from a average rectangle to the face of the Mona Lisa. The assignment was to represent the golden ratio in as many ways as possible in a collage. Simple right? Actually yes, it was; scribbling random golden rectangles, spirals, or any other shape that seemed fun to draw onto the paper and then taping a couple of pictures on pretty much got the job done.
I chose to start with a piece of paper, 5 by 8, which is a very simple, inaccurate version of such an extraordinary ratio, and drew lines in it to form perfect curves all the way around. I then was able to draw a smaller golden rectangle in the middle of the oval I had just formed. Inside this, I drew a golden spiral, which wasn't a very good golden spiral due to the approximation that I had made earlier in the process, and wrote out the golden ratio around the edges. Finally, I glued in pictures of a sunflower, apple logo, a violin, and the Mona Lisa, all of which were designed around the idea of the golden ratio. Well, I guess the sunflower wasn't exactly designed by anyone... Anyway, it turned out acceptably well.
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