Cut lits & Axon sketch with dimensions
Drawing Orthograph of My Community Space:
My Grandpa is an architect, watching him do architectural drawing was the most boring thing, until l I made one for my Community space myself, my point of view towards it changed.
The first step: to deiced and define my community space was challenging because it’s not only a space that I inhabited but also somewhere I feel contained, included and communicated. I chose my childhood room where it has clearly marked in my memory, and I desperately want to construct this graph out of my memory, something that is out of my box and unique.
The second step: Measuring was annoying because I am not very familiar with the self-retract measuring tape. I used my current room as the reference to remember how my childhood room looks like. I switched between mearing tape and the “Measuring” app that is on my phone to get different kinds of precise data. I recorded them down on my notebook and later transferred them into inches and feet, which is odd for me who have grown in a country that uses CM an M. But, the adaption of the inch and foot system was quick too.
The Third step: To draw it on paper was different than how I imagined. we are supposed to use different weights of line to represent different parts of space, for example, the thickest line for the wall, and thinner for various furniture and doors. Different icons for different structures made my graph looking really professional. The part that really challenged me is to draw the room according to an appropriate and suitable scale, as well as the identical guidelines for texts. Drawing the elevation of my room is much more flexible and fun because I can add details for the furniture and even adding myself in the graph. As a freshman in the architectural graphing, I crossed through many challenges, frustrations, and troubles, however, I am satisfied with the end result.
Creating our room out of woods using different methods:
Making a box includes so many steps, and each step takes practice to make perfect. Making and cutting the joints, the teeth, the drills.
I messed up three times, first time with the teeth not matching each other, second time with cutting the wrong side of the 45-degree angle, and the third time realizing that the extra room is measured wrong. So to fix the final problem, instead, remake like the last two time, I decided to abandon the extra room because of lack of time. To make up what I have lost in my community memorial room, I planned to make interiors to fulfill space.
From this experience, I learned the importance of managing my time and check my process as a whole before making bigger problems.
In conclusion, this project makes me pay attention to space from the inside and the outside, also on how to attach liners or planar materials to create space without passive ways such as glue or tape.
Reflection
I learn how to construct a space with all kinds of jointing methods, and also I better understood how the outside space of a house does not equal to the inside space. There is always that 0.5 distance to keep the house together.
According to the text, Juhani Pallasmaa states that “Architecture domesticates limitless space and enables us to inhabit it.” Although now I am learning how to limit the architecture through measuring, but the emotion inside and the community in my room gives it imaginative limitless space.
