This is a drawing of a topographic view of my house in New York. I used darker lines for the outline of the house and minimal color to show what each object depicted. For example i used green for the shrubbery, purple/grey for the road, yellow for the house, red for brick, and blue for water. I also created shadows and a direction symbol to show the viewer which way was North.

Topography

These are my first contour drawings of a building taken out of an exercise in the textbook. It took a while to understand how the lines connected to the steepness but i think I'm getting the idea

Unity Drawings

These are drawings of my plan and elevation for the unity project. I played with different line weights because my inspiration was the chinese dragon and i tried to mimic the chinese writing.

Dialog Final

The only thing i changed in the structure was the points. Instead of them being faced in and therefore not visible i made them all facing out. This, i believe, has more symbolic meaning because when you are having a conversation with someone some points get across(the parts that touch) while others just go right past the other. This is a play on hearing only what you want to hear.

Dialog Attempt 1

The dialog in my project is between two apposing parts. The points represent the ears and the openings represent the mouths. The skewers are the points that one is trying to get across to the other. While some skewers touch the opposing sides others don't. This represents that while people are fighting, one only hears some point the apposing side is making while everything else goes past him. My inspiration or precedent is Chinese dragon dancing. Each module n the structure is reminiscent of origami and when they are put together they create a curved shape. This represents the movement of the dancing. Chinese dragon dancing tells very symbolic stories often of conflicting forces like my project portrays.

Zooming Out

For this exercise we had to focus on one object and then keep zooming out to a bigger picture with the object still in it. I went with the idea that everything starts with a screw so i drew three screws and when i zoomed out each picture became something different. Thus three completely different things are held together by screws.

Light Fixtures

In the first image, i drew various light fixtures i found in the IARC building and drew them through observation. In the second picture i drew a larger version of one of the lights. This drawing is a view of someone looking down at a hanging light fixture.