Media Assignment #2
For this week’s media assignment, I used SketchUp to arrange rooms as defined by the program we received. The main level didn’t change much in any of the three schemes I created and I spent more time thinking of the arrangement of studios. Once I had three different studio layouts, I printed them and quickly outlined them freehand. These provided me with some quick and dirty plan/section/elevation diagrams that made more sense to me than a 3d jumble of boxes. I scanned in the sketches and added some color in photoshop to indicate where the studios were in plan and section.
Scheme 1
Scheme 2
Scheme 3
The strength of SketchUp the way you can quickly visualize individual parts and volume. When you translate that to plans, sections or elevations, think about how you how you can make decisions about architecture. For example, your SketchUp diagrams and your plans look like the same thing. Try to visualize the relationships of size in SketchUp and then draw the plan or section with a variety of volume relationships, hopefully it leads to different forms.