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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.