MONTAGE IT! Poster

MONTAGE IT! Renders

The daytime scene depicts a forest and complete interaction between the building and the actual environment itself. The glass walls of the structure have been purposely removed in order to have complete interaction with the nature. To further highlight this necessary factor of my concept, I have photoshopped the wilderness interacting with the building e.g. shrubbery growing within it, animals surrounding it etc. The night time shows a mountain like terrain, away from society and in its lonesome. I created fog like sceneries to compliment this seclusion and also included several lighting features to change the feel of the building itself. A car is also is shown to allow a visual size ratio of the building. The interior scene demonstrates a simple outlook from the inside of the building (the office room), into a conceptual space-like exterior environment.

MONTAGE IT! - Model

This montage model was based around an idea of intersecting cubic and rectangles to form a creative containment completely open to its environment. I wanted a barrier-less structure that would integrate entirely within its environment.

MODEL IT! POSTER - Week 5-8

This particular model kept me up for days, despite starting straight after receiving the task. The intricacies of the building differentiated the models from the competition e.g. the stonework of the basement, the window awnings and furnishings etc.

The main struggle of the Fisher House was repetitive mistake of inaccurate measurement. This was mainly because I had aimed to be so incredibly precise with my measurements that I would not be happy with my finished cuttings. This was a rookie mistake as I soon discovered ways around inaccurate joints and cuttings e.g. wall coverings.

 The hardest part of this task was definitely the inward window awnings as they were fairly intricate and hard to manoeuvre and create. However, after 2 sleepless nights and a stressful week I had managed to complete the task and am quite happy with the result.

MODEL IT! - Fisher House Site Plan

This by far was the easiest Model It! task. I had used .5mm box cardboard to signify each layer within the site plan. The process was rather tedious but ultimately I had finished this task within 1-2 days. The final touches to be made on the model were rather simple as it just required a covering of the sides to cover up any blemishes or uneven layers; which I had used balsa for.

MODEL IT! - Barcelona Pavillion

The Barcelona pavilion was a fairly simple model to build. With the 2 week time frame given to complete it I’d much rather have been working on the final Fisher House Model which needed 2 weeks to complete. My particular Barcelona model revolved around only 3 thicknesses of balsa wood, and aluminium foil to act as the poles. The process took around 4 days to build with no real rush to complete it. To signify the watery areas of the model I finely sliced vertical lines down a sheet of basla.

DRAW IT! POSTER - Week 1-4

DRAW IT! - Final Render

This render was done completely with pencil. Pencil was a suitable rendering tool as it allowed effective shading for a more in-depth and realistic interpretation of the Fisher House. For this specific angle, this required me to piece together several other photos as there are actually minimal quality photos of the Fisher House. To get a greater visual of the house, I had to download the Fisher House sketchup model and often used it as a guide or to explore the house itself.

DRAW IT!: Thinking Process - Renders

After experimenting with colour renders I had not arrived at the quality I had desired. As I am not used to water colours or painted renders in my previous experiences I had decided to stick with black and white layouts. This was advised by my tutors and helped to magnify the Fisher House's minimalist architecture.

Also after constant consultation from my tutors, I had provided them with sample renders for my floor plans. We had both decided that it be better to be done in pen rather than pencil as it was not bold enough. I had implemented use of the creative freedom given and added a few other things to my floor plans e.g. black dots to signify the unique wall material used (especially for the basement as they are rock walls).

DRAW IT!: Thinking Process - Original Poster

This was my original poster idea. As we were given the option to choose between either THREE A3 posters, or ONE A1 poster; I originally was set on having one huge A1 size poster as I felt it would better display my drawings and the Fisher House itself. This was my original layout provided. 

Although, after consulting my tutors advice and also advice from peers also doing the Fisher House, I decided to change from this layout into a THREE A3 page presentation. This way it allowed me to have more room to display the drawings without a cluttered feel.