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Architectural Communications was a very interesting course completed in the second semester of first year architecture's course. With these three workshops been selected from a range of five, they did make me develop my skills in communicating my work through the assignments.

The first workshop I did was Atlas of Colour. in atlas of colour I learnt a lot on what types of effects there are for colour, the different names of groups for certain colours. The interesting part for that workshop was that we visited the synagogue in Bondi. The making of the book was a challenge but it was all good and very fun to make is it showed what we had learnt and they we presented our theme.

The second workshop was material modelling. Material modelling was very active during the class periods. The fun thing about this course was that any material was allowed to be used and the type of transformation used for the change was also very exciting to do. Changing models with someone else and making it from a different model was something that you don’t see every day and don’t get to experience as well, which was very enjoyable.

With the third and final workshop, architecture in motion, I think it was the best to do and the one that was very different to the rest. I really enjoyed doing this last workshop because it was fun, exciting and different. Taking image by image or photo by photo and scanning them in might take a while but at the end you have something spectacular.

From my perspective, architectural communications is a great course and especially with first year students as they not only meet new people but also learn how to communicate together through images, books, presentations, drawings and videos. Therefore this is what I think the course is about.

Architecture in Motion

This workshop completed was quite interesting and fun. Although it took time and effort I think it was worth it. Through this workshop we had view 3-4 images on the screen that were repeated over and over again, thus we had to draw them and remember what they were. The aim was to make a video from still images in relation to the images shown to us in class.


The next week back we had to develop at least a 10sec video, which completed by me but unfortunately I had a car accident on the way the uni. (Please make sure your rear lights are working). Thus, I didn’t get to come uni and show what if I’m on the right track or not.

For the week after my video was on track but not quite good. Therefore I had to put in a lot of effort for it to be below for you to view.

Basically this is my spatial narrative "The still image show initiates from the model made as it starts from the carves on the sand stone and slowly grabs attention to see what’s behind the wall. The attention is grabbed from the centre hole, from model it changes to drawings that show the construction of the space. As the space is built the camera moves around and thus the whole space is known to be the same, then the space warns out."

Basically the camera is a human eye (the person looking at this video is them going through the journey). The journey starts of as the person seeing the stone wall been carved then he/she throws a rock at the centre and it makes a crack. Thus, the person is eager to know whets behind the wall. As the light from behind the wall shines they get desperate to find out what is behind so they get closer and closer. They seem to get through the wall and come in a new world where they see the space been built and constructed. As the space is built, the person (in this case you viewing it) sees a long road ahead of them, they turn to see if there are other paths in the environment, but all they see is the same path. Therefore they choose the middle path as they think it’s the better claim. As the person travels this path taken, they were mistaken, the wrong decision was made. Since the path fades it means the person is dying. This journey ends with a negative point.

Material Modelling

Now we hit the second workshop completed for Arch 1142. Material modelling was interesting as we initiated by making cubes from different ways with the material been grey cardboard. After that we made a model of an object in a group of 2, then made ½ of our house from cardboard and the main aim was to swap our ½ made house with someone and make there from balsa wood but also with two formations done on it.

The challenge with making the cubes was getting each side exactly 8cm, thus a little maths was involved. Each face of the cube was made separately den clued together also with very little sanding done it to give the edges a smooth touch.

The second cube made was differently were each face was not made separately but it was made form a net. Making this cube was little more challenging and interesting to make. Net was drawn on paper then edges measured the proper drawing and cutting done.

Making ½ of our own house from cardboard was fun. It started by drawing a draft of my house then measuring everywhere. After that a proper drawing done to scale of 1:50 to make it easy as we had to make it from balsa wood too. The model was made at scale of 1:50; main focus was to show the thicknesses of the walls.

As the swap was made, I had a few thoughts in my head but wasn’t sure on what to do. I decided to make the transformations of elevation and subtraction. The painting done on the balsa wood is to give it a meaning that each room is unique and individual as the building is dorms for university students.

This was workshop 2 is ending here… coming up next is workshop 3. Enjoy.

Atlas of Colour

Welcome to all,

My first workshop completed for ARCH-1142 was "Atlas of Colour" with Sarah and Christian. The journey started as I was much intimated with what Sarah had stated to describe her workshop with a few lines. In the first lecture of the course she stated that "the first thing that a baby notices is colour, and also that it gives meaning to the form of the object."

The lessons went at a slow pace as well as the cold killing us. It was interesting how the progress was been made on how to teach us the Fundamental colour theory, Collection, organisation and sequencing of visual information, Creating and using 2D and 3D images, Exploration of a variety of drawing and modelling media and Techniques in building up composite drawings using mixed media.

I want to explain the ups and downs with how I got my Atlas together. I had hectic ideas hitting me from one side of the head to the other. As the final weeks came running up close, all the ideas were combined together to create my book.

Basically with my Atlas, I had a decided to use the materials such as balsa wood, place mat, nails, different coloured papers with certain types of gsm and tracing paper. I had set out my Atlas in a chronological order where it begins with the content page then to the first exercise to the last exercise.

The way I had designed my title page of the book was so that it could look abstract and different from others, as others didn’t (contain) use nails, balsa wood or place mat. I always like my work to be different from others with its own unique manner and form.

The colour that I had chosen was blue since I think I am a blue (those people that did Atlas of colour would understand what I mean) and I love blue. Within the Atlas the most used font was Old English Font, as is my favourite font and also gives a sense of its singularity.

All the chapter title pages were designed in the same manner. An A3 tracing paper folded in half with the coloured paper in between showing the exercise number and task along with the page number.

Task 1:- personal colour theme – explains who I am in from all perspectives. My personal colour theme is based upon a circle and within the circle are 5 different colours. Basically it sums up ME. Green is for spatial, Blue is for self, Purple is for others, White is for outer and Grey means idol. I have placed them in a circle because life hoes in a cycle, it goes round, it ends up where we started, but life is only once. The colours in each place are not filled in properly which means that life is not as complete, thus life has ups and downs.

Task 2:- room plan and perspective – basically the title says it all; it’s my room along with the furniture from a plan view and a perspective view. Mainly on what different colours are in my room.

Task 3:- memory mapping –with the memory mapping it’s my life summed up into little areas that say what happened on a particular year and what was the occasion. Its starts from where I was born then how I came to Australia, then basically I sum up my education life along with my sports life in my memory map. There are also numbers after certain areas on the map, with a key below explaining what those numbers are on the map.

Task 4:- book + object – my book was called “The Life of Saladin” that book was chosen because it’s an interesting book as gives you the whole package on how the Middle East faced wars and battles, the way wars were planned, the fight between power and authority and how did Saladin make his way to the throne. The way the book is structured is from the birth of Saladin all the way to his children days of been in power. The layout of the book is done in an ordinary manner, where there is a map from the Saladin great father showing the children all the way to Saladin’s children. As the book explains about the history, mainly Roman Numerals are used.

With my object it was a GameBoy Advance. I chose that object because it was my favourite colour. This game console has been with me since the year 2004, I personally had purchased this colour object because it stood out form the other colours.

Task 5:- building drawn in class – building that the tutor placed on the screen had to be copied from any type of colouring form that we like to do it in. Mine was done in paint and black ink.

Task 6:- 4 buildings – building 1 is Harmony, building 2 is Contrast, building 3 is Rhythm and building 4 is Balanced. 4 buildings were meant to be found, each relating to the words given and they had to be re-drawn.

Task 7:- 15cm x 15cm tile – one of the exciting drawings done was the tile. The tile had to be 15cm by 15cm, and only 3 colours allowed to be used which we had to draw our object from a particular point.

Task 8:- 49 veils – the synagogue, it wasn’t like any other worshipping institution. As it was also my first time going into a synagogue it was a new experience. From my observation I viewed a lot of arches, also the ceremony area was also in the shape of an arch. That explains that when the Jewish people are praying everyone is facing each other. Surprisingly there were only four windows that were each different colours but almost the same shape. The colours that have remained in my head about the synagogue are brown, and cream. The main materials used were marbles, stones, timber and glass.

Task 9:- topography – the alphabet had to be written out neatly. The quote I found from an architect that related to colour was “beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionally so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.” – Leon Battista Alberti.

My quote was “Religion to me is light, a pure white,
Life to me is spatial, as spacious as green,
Known to be wise as my hair will turn grey,
Other think and see me as purple, this is my Atlas… which is me… that is Blue.”

Task 10:- tonal scales – 14 different designs of façades had to be drawn and 7 done with black and white and the other 7 done in a colour. We had to show the different types of tonal scales shown by doing it on the façade of the building.

Here are other images of my Atlas. I hope that you have enjoyed my company and had a nice time reading about my journey through workshop 1…. P.S be prepared for workshop 2.