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.
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