Exercise 4 - Joseph Oros

This fictional space was designed to seem eerie and foreboding, just as the stoop that was in the TV show Hey Arnold. I used the stoop from the well-known episode about the kid who would never leave his stoop. I designed the bricks and stoop itself in FormZ. The silhouettes of the tree and person were added in PS as well as some smudging an brightness levels.

Exercise 4 - McNally

My image was inspired by Sandy's treedome in the TV show, Spongebob Squarepants. In the show, Sandy is the only one in the group of the underwater creatures who is meant to be on land, she is a squirrel. So, in order to tolerate life underwater Sandy wears an astronaut suit so that she can breath and live like everyone else. Sandy's residence is what inspired my image. Sandy lives in a transparent, spherical dome that encloses a bright green lawn and a great tree. I wanted to capture an image where you were standing on the lawn with the tree in your peripheral vision, and you are looking up through the transparent dome to the surface of the blue ocean. The image didn't come out as well as I had wished, while making the tree I found it hard to mimic it in geometric forms in form z, so the rendering didn't really represent the depth of the foliage that I was aiming for.

Exercise 4 - Gorbunova A.

I used a scene from Science of Sleep to create my image. The movie uses different types of textures and materials to represent buildings, the city, clouds, etc. There is also a sense of flow and movement in the movie that is unreal. In my project, I tried to incorporate the different types of textures, opacity, transparency overlaid with real maps and real pictures of cities to create a sense of flying over an imaginary city.

Exercise 4 - Sass

I created a triptych of Gotham city. The upper region is of a city skyline. The batman beacon is being shined in the air because the city is his whole domain to protect. The middle region is where all the action happens. I have a prominent lighting effect there to symbolize the conception of action. The bottom image is a sewer which is where the evil all brews. There are evil eyes in the background.

Exercise 4_Khakbaz

my idea came from a painting that shows the architectural fantasy of a winter wonderland. I created the castle and the mountains in form Z. I had a lot of trouble with getting the right texture for the water so I added the water in photoshop.

Exercise 4 - Horton

This is my version of a cave in form-z. I had a lot of trouble making it and it took about 10 hours total due to multiple computers freezing and form-z being as hard to navigate as would a NASA rocket ship. Either way, this is my cave in beautiful line form with a lovely palette of orange and green. I just varied the colors in photoshop and could not render the image as i wanted to because when i did the screen went black.

Excercise 4 - Myers: Fantasy Scene

This scene is the elven city in the trees from The Lord of the Rings. It is intended to capture the height and mystical nature of the city. The lights on the stairs and in the building create the feeling of magic. The architecture and materials of the building and the stairs speak to an ancient and unknown culture. The scene is purposefully set in the dark to amplify the effect of the lights. The trees serve as both a background for the stairs and as a device to imply the height of the city.

Exercise 4- Rameez M.

my idea came from Inception in the scene were the road bends and creates a fold. My image represents the way light and shadows deceit the human mind. The light seems to be shining down on the buildings below but also on the buildings above, creating the "illusion" that the road revolves around the sun

Exercise 4 - Weller

I wanted to play around with textures and shapes to form the cave I saw on the movie 127 hours. The turbulent water represnets the struggles the main character has through out the movie. On photoshop I added "the light at the end of the tunnel" and the shape of a person caving.

Exercise 4- Cramer

Well, this is my batcave. My idea was a play on darkness and fear, and how Batman uses his greatest fear, bats, as his greatest strength. Bruce Wayne, as a child, originally slipped and fell into a hole that lead him to the Batcave, where he was swarmed by hundreds of bats. They became what he feared most, and when when he went through his training, was told to use this fear to his advantage. I am still struggling with the FormZ program a lot and wish I could have done a lot more to give this a more cave like quality, however. Learning this program is definetely going to take some time but I'm slowly getting there.

Exercise 4 Svensson

This image is based on the idea of enclosing nature. As precedence I looked at the Kandalapur hotel in India. I wanted to create a feeling of nature being within and architecture outside, a reversal in essence.

Exercise 4 - Ensor

This image is of the bat cave. I see batman as a hero that is not accepted by Gotham City and is always on the outside looking in. However, he is still part of the city. This is coneyed in the image with the metal like material which is at the bottom of the image. The material represents the connection of batman to Gotham City.

Exercise 3 - Weller

I wanted to achieve a conexion between all three objects. I used smoke-art to enclose the borders, and used similar colors on all of the objects. The lines that cut across divide each exercise to create a clear triptych.

Exercise 3_Khakbaz

Exercise 3- Cramer

First, I apologize for the late post. I've been struggling big time with formZ the past few days. I spent a solid three hours in it yesterday attempting this assignment and did something wrong and lost everything I had done up until that point. I didn't have more time to waste due to charrette so I worked on it more this morning. As you can see, I struggled big time actually creating the forms asked for. I'm hoping this assignment was just an exploration of formZ, because I still have A LOT to learn.

Exercise 3- Rameez M.

When i first made the stepped pyramid the first thing i thought of was the aztec pyramids and the coned cube reminded me of what the plan view looks like. Then i decided to literally combine th e two into a stepped round pyramid with spikes. That led me to a resemblance of the aztec calendar.

Exercise 3 - Ensor

The image repersents the transformation of forms over time. On the right is a stepped pyramid of Egypt and messoamerica. The middle image is of the present forms of mathematical curves and unique forms that create interest. These forms interesct the stepped pyramid to indicate that there learned from the pyramid. The third image is of a floating cube with spicks. This repersents the forms of the furture. The future is unknown so the forms are also usually to us now. The entire composition is surrounded by a low wall which connects all the forms together.

Exercise 3 - Sass

My triptech shows the evolution and interaction of a planar cube. A piece of the stepped pyramid is depicted. It then sprouts cylinders and then it shrinks into a rounded shape and is enclosed in another figure. The first figure is pushing the movement and the final figure contains the receptacle to stop it.

Exercise 3 - McNally

For this triptych, I tried to keep a constant, visual theme (the light color blue) to connect all of the three, completely different, images. I think that the white background anchors the whole piece as well. The first image is of the stepped pyramid, I flipped it upside down to get a different effect. The image in the middle is an enclosed room and the image on the right is the spiked cube. My goal in choosing all of these images was to find an angle or view where it appears that space is made. I felt that in all of these images successfully define an enclosure of space.

Form Z Triptych

On the far left is the spiked cube, centered with the image of the walled room emphasizing the cone emerging from the ground with the sphere following in behind, the final image on the right is the inside shot of the stepped pyramid that i oriented in a frame and set the perspective looking into an enclosed space.

Excercise 3 - Myers

When I created the first two figures, I chose primary colors to mark the different colored objects. When I moved forward with the walled room, I continued this color theme. I started to really like how it looked so I used it as the primary way to create a link between the objects. I also placed them on the same flat plane. I added the reflection and lighting effects to further the impression that they were part of the same world. Playing on the use of the reflective surface, I blurred some of the reflections and sharpened others using a combination of Illustrator and Photoshop. By reversing which reflection, the top or the bottom, was overlapped in front or blurred, I worked to create a stronger link between the figures, while also creating some ambiguity and highlighting the walled room as the primary focus.

Exercise 3 Svensson

For this assignment I worked on learning to use the program Form Z and integrating what I created with Photoshop and Indesign. As such I came up with a vertical composition, playing with the idea of angles and axonometric views. Setting up this composition, I looked at keeping certain edges and lines parallel with one another, and gave a hierarchy to the different cubes. The top cube is the darkest, heaviest object; however it is also the most complex in appearance and therefore elevated on the triptech.

Exercise 3 - Horton

For this project, I spent a lot of time figuring out how to use the program and therefore have a pretty basic set up. This is my version of all three objects that I split onto three sides of the sheet with the object I liked the most in the middle and on top of the others. I used all similar colors for the renderings and left the objects in perspective. When I put the objects into photoshop, I inverted the color so that the background was black instead of white. I wasn't sure how the image should look in the end so I didn't do anything else to it like warping it or changing the colors I already chose in FormZ. I'm curious what other people's will look like since mine seems to be first.

Exercise 2 - McNally

These are the three images that I chose to represent "architecture parlante". I thought that it would be better to abstract the assignment more and blend the three images as one but now I regret not distinctly separating them like an actual triptych. My idea was that the eye, a famous image by Ledoux, would connect all of the images together - symbolizing that the human eye is literal and how we see architecture should represent the architecture's purpose and function. I thought that the images adjacent to the eye represented architecture parlante in two different ways. The left image is a bridge, when we look at a bridge we know what it is used for because we can see it's actual function - to occupy transportation. The other image describes architecture parlante in a more subtle way. The book states that architecture parlante doesn't necessarily only pertain to buildings that directly resemble their function, but that buildings are built in the places or the way are because of more spiritual ideas or because of their surroundings. The image of the building on the left goes with the sunset background of the entire image - I am assuming the building was intended to have the glazing and monumentality it does because of the glorious views it observes around sunset and sunrise.

Exercise 1 - McNally

A lot of the assignment asked questions pertaining to travels and different places we've grown up or been to- so I decided to make my matrix somewhat themed. I was born in New York, live in New York, and my absolute favorite sports team is the New York Rangers. So I decided that it would be important to include all of these things in my visual matrix. I chose to include the NYC skyline image because one I think it is beautiful and two I feel that it is a good anchor for the matrix, it brings it all together. I tried to blend my face in the skyline in the lower right hand corner. In the upper right hand corner (the green blobs) are images of countries I have been to - Ireland and China. The rainbow blur that borders this is actually a pattern that through photoshop I derived from a NYC traffic image - to represent the sound that NYC traffic makes. I wrote "the big apple" in the upper left hand corner to not only emphasize the New York aspect of my matrix but also because my computer is a mac. It's hard to see but I also hid in the city skyline a lego skyscraper among the buildings to show that I prefer legos over transformers.

ARCH 470 PROJECT 2

I chose to illustrate Frank Lloyd Wrights' Falling Water for my triptych presentation to show the symbiotic marriage between Architecture and Mother Nature. Frank Lloyd Wright is able to capture both the indoors and the outdoors in his design, by transitioning between the woods image falling water and the plan of Falling Water, one is able to see the transition from outdoors to indoors that Wright had intended.

Exercise 1_Khakbaz

This Collage is a representation of my cultural background and where I see myself in the future. The main theme of this collage is framing. I tried to frame every picture and create a picture that tells a story. My cultural background is the hierarchical object of this image

Exercise 2_Khakbaz

This Collage is a representation of the past, present, and the future of architecture. Originally architecture started out with the idea of satisfying our need for shelter. Today that idea has developed and the world has urbanized and some nations are moving towards green architecture. In the future of architecture I hope to see green architecture spread globally.

Exercise 1 - Weller

Trough out my composition I have added a lot of color to represent my latin culture. On the bottom part of my project there is an image of a skyline that is covered by grass, emphasising the importance of nature within the cities and architectural design. On top of the grass I wrote most of the cities I have visited. On the top part of my page I have an image of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala that comes out as "wishful thinking". Through out all of my composition I have flying birds, but on the top area there is one bird that is sitting still, representing the importance of that image.

Triptych: Sydney Opera House

For me, one of the most inspirational buildings is the Sydney Opera House. Through this triptych I want to illustrate the ideas Jorn Utzon had when he designed this building, and how this idea has become the identity this architectural structure "speaks".

The first part illustrates Utzon's inspiration, a sailboat, the second part is the transition of the inspiration into the final product, and the 3rd part consists of an image of the end result of Utzon's creativity.

Utzon believes that "the structure and strict geometry expresses the logic of the building", and in this case the building expresses Australias attachment to the ocean and the senic view of the sails at Bennelong Point.

Exercise 2- Rameez M.

I took the idea of parlante and separated it into three separate categories concerning the same structure, the Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi. The complicated architecture surrounding the structure entails a marina, F1 race track and the idea of having a grid shell around the exterior. The phases of the triptych emphasize the 3 main big ideas behind the architectural design.

Exercise 1- Rameez M.

I took assignment one as an opportunity to blend everything together in one setting. My main objective was taking one background and finding multiple uses for the same things, as demonstrated by the airplane and the sideline acting as a runway. My birth year being written as the numbers on the field are etc.

Excercise 2 - Myers: Tryptich: Gaudi's Fantastic Portals

This image is an exposition on the fantasy worlds about which Gaudi's architecture speaks. It is developed as a serious of portals and/or scenes that lead to another deeper in the image. Alone, each panel has its own special fantasy imagery. The center panel is the most important, however, because it draws the eye due to its light and color, and ties all three together.

Exercise 1- Cramer

I used assignment 1 as an opportunity to really explore Photoshop's capabilities. I blended about 30 or so images that answered all the questions of the assignment to show where I hope my architectural education will someday take me, designing houses and living by the beach. In a sense, I'm using images of who I am today to demonstrate where I hope to be in the future. If you look closely, you can make out some of the buildings of the certain cities I've visited, my favorite place in College Park, and some of my hobbies. Most of the images are too blended, though, in order to portray the sand, water, sky, etc.

Exercise 1 - Ensor

Exercise 2- Cramer

For project 2, my idea was to demonstrate the main idea of "architectural parlante" through three consecutives images that show it. I chose these particular images because they clearly demonstrate the main idea of architectural parlante without the need for text. I laid the pictures over a text document as well as an image of St. Francis Cathedral in Assisi to blend the ideas of architecture and the communication of ideas.

Exercise 2 - Ensor

This building is most commonly known as the Gherkin building. The building has a very interesting story and function. The building is the first sustainable skyscraper. The building boasts this through it's design and the intention of being a "sky garden". The side picture shows the creation of the building. the circling floor plan was based off of a flower and the shope is desinged to lower wind force. This shape could not have been done without the help of advance computer programs. The third picture is the history and emotional present of the building. The Gherkin building was built over the old site of the Baltic Exchange building. The Baltic Exchange was bombed in 1992 and forever changed the London skyline. The whole picture tells the story of what the building repersents: The concept/sky garden/London skyline.

Excercise 1 - Myers

To create this image, I assembled representations of various memories, places, interests, etc. from my life. The landscapes create a stage and are used to incite a deep-spatial reading of the image. I used various perspectives and scales along with other symbols to increase and confuse this reading. Finally, I disconnected and overlapped various parts of the whole, thereby, developing more depth and ambiguity.

Exercise 2 Svensson

In this image I play with the idea of architecture parlante. The main background and focus on this image is that of an Indian temple. It clearly speaks as to what it not only is meant to look like (a louts blossom) but also the idea of a tranquil place of meditation. In the foregound I gate the temple with images of the Sagrada Familia and the Casa Batlo by Gaudi. The Sagrada Familia like the temple is a building dedicated to religion, and clearly speaks thus. Now the Casa Batlo is a secular building and therefore does not conform to the idea of religion but of that of yet another building that speaks for itself, in this case a building meant to evoke ideas of the human body. It also speaks to a theme of buildings that have similar curviture as can be seen in the overlay of the Casa Batlo over the temple. Placed together I attempt in this collage to create a cohesive image that speaks itself on many layers.

Exercise 1 Svensson

For the first project I wanted to center the image and collage around a photo of myself at work. Shooting is both my passion and on the basis of my work outside of college. This collage is about integrating all the layers of my life together. To say more about myself I play with the concept of the sudoku board. Facts about where I live, where I have traveled, and even what kind of computer I use can be found engraved on the wood. When studying this image I want people to have to take a close look/study to find all the hidden facts dotted throughout the image.

Exercise 2 - Sass

“I think the really interesting stuff is always the hybrid, the parasite.” I created my piece to display the stages of life, the “partly here today and gone tomorrow”. The vignette of the young architect who had lost his sketchbook intrigued me. I used fluid compositional strategies to layer information and capture a feeling of eternity and connectivity. Rooms led to one another through a never-ending cycle of doorways. Birth stares you in the face with its exact date of creation while death wisps off the right side without a finite termination The beauty of life is the most hypnotizing part of this cycle and it encompasses the greatest part of every beings time.

Exercise 1 - Sass

I used the water to create a space for myself to live in. I’ve participated in water sports my whole life and I’ve always found time to enjoy them. The background is the prairie, which is the location of my childhood. Each piece of information is selected as a puzzle piece to explain my personality and lifestyle.

Exercise 1 - Horton

For project one, I used a collection of mostly my own pictures and created my collage. I put a picture of myself as a bas relief on the bottom and a warped picture of the cliffs of Moher behind as the background. The rest of the pictures are superimposed over top of this. I blurred edges, made pictures less opaque, and made all of the pictures appear slightly hazy to make them appear more like a dream than a clear picture. Each individual photo relates to cities I've been, music I love, the books I read, and who I am.

Exercise 2 - Horton

For project 2, I used 3 Japanese woodblock art pieces and combined them in a way to eliminate all white space. A pagoda is on the left, a wave is the central picture that also functions as the background, and on the right there is a house high up on a cliff. I used these pictures collectively to show how nature and buildings relate and coincide. Nature is something people have to consider in any design and also something we adapt to and work with in our buildings. That is the story my triptych tells as a single picture. Individually, I altered the woodblock pictures so they look considerably different than before but they are still recognizable.

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