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meditation/celebration
For our final project in studio we must use the space that we have been studying in drafting class and design a celebration and meditation space for grad students within it. I am excited about designing the space and creating a presentation board to display my work. I have been working with creating a sense of celebration and meditation without simply putting furniture in a room. By using built-ins, hopefully I will be able to achieve this sense of place.
This works with what some believe to be the meaning of architecture. “ Its purpose is still to bring the material world into harmony with human life” (Roth, 547).




light/shadow
Our studio project will also focus very heavily on light and shadow. We are to take inspiration from our window projects and use them to design a space that celebrates the light of both night and day.
We have been studying light so intensely in order to learn that it can make an enormous change in a space. Massey writes “the thick concrete walls are pierced by small coloured windows to create the dramatic effect of shafts of coloured light falling on the congregation” (Massey, 152) to show us how colored lighting can affect a space.




transpose/juxtapose
This week we learned about tactics such as transpose and juxtapose (changing the relative position and comparing something) by learning about a computer program called SketchUp. This program allows designers to create a space from scratch in a three dimensional environment. As an assignment this week, we created our celebration/meditation space in SketchUp.

Another computer rendering(NOT SKETCHUP)
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literal/abstract
For our final project, our drawing class and history class will be combined for the completion of the precedent analysis project. We must create a composition for our building that allows it to speak without us having to explain it. I think this is important because we are not literally reporting on the building, such as giving measurements, dates, etc. On the contrary, we are abstracting the project into a kind of visual report on our building.


Perspectives like this will be used in the composition.

monologue/dialogue
Also for our history exam, we will use monologue and dialogue to dicuss our final projects in a critique. A monologue can be considered a composition in which a person speaks about a piece (or the piece speaks for itself). We will use dialogue to exchange our ideas and opinions about others’ compositions.

Overall, this week has been very busy. With due dates looming, final projects are taking a toll on many of us. All I can do is continue to push forward through the next week.