On Site Photography Activity Part 3 - Week 2

The final activity which we needed to complete involved colour swatching and using adobe colour to generate a colour palet for our specific site. This allowed for data visualisation processes to be explored, leading to a deeper knowledge and understanding of the key colour elements contained within my specific site.

Image and Swatch 1 -

 



Image and Swatch 2 -





Image and Swatch 3 -






Image and Swatch 4 -

 



Image and Swatch 5 -

On site photography activity part 2 - week 2

The second activity which was required in the site challenge became more challenging when new words and ideas were introduced which I didn't necessarily notice about the structures and landscapes immediately. This allowed me to explore further design types and elements which I was previous unaware of and made me appreciate my structure so much more in hindsight.

Void                                             Structural Element                        Foyer



Safety Element                             Public Space                                 Pathway



Accessibility Access                     Tree Canopy                                 Building Skin



Public Art                                     Branding                                       Lighting



Cast Concrete                               Timber Decking                            Stair Riser



Balustrade                                    Electricity Power Source              Water Container (Guttering)



Green Space                                 Hardscape                                     Ergonomic Design

On site photograph activity - week 2

This week our site work included taking various photographs of the site which reference or clearly express certain design elements which we should be conscious of whilst designing.  The task required us to design elements and principles and a series of components that are common in the Built Environment.

Images expressing the design elements -

Lines                                             Shapes                                          Shapes



Direction (of timber lines)           Size / Scale                                      Repetition / Pattern



Size / Scale                                   Proximity                                      Colour



Texture                                         Balance                                         Alignment



Direction                                       Alignment                                     Repetition



Contrast (metal and wood)           Space                                            Balance



Texture                                          Colour / Texture                           Texture

Generating a graph using the assigned database - week 2 studio

This lesson we were required to utilise one of the five sets of data provided to generate a graph to visually represent this data using adobe illustrator. This application was one which I was not very familiar with and posed a challenging. although it was difficult at first to locate all the tools and how they correspond to different things, it was highly beneficial and allowed me to generate a graph which clearly illustrated the relevant information in a clear and concise manner. the challenge for this assignment will be to place all the elements together when all five of the individual photoshop designs have to be combined for the final assessment in week 5. 

Data provided - 

Inspiration image - 

Illustrator version of the data - 

Attempt 2 -



Attempt 3 - FINAL

In class swatch generation activity related to data base - week 2

In class swatch generation activity related to data base - week 2

This studio lesson allowed me to become more familiar with colour swatching and using the adobe capture app to convert words to images to colour swatches to develop a colour pallet related to a specific subject matter. This was very insightful and fascinating to me as I has never considered this transformation strategy before. My team was really good in the fact that we brainstormed together about the initial words relating to each data base and then split into individual work on generating the inspiration images and colour swatches. I was very excited to get home and start using the information I had generated to assist me in making an accurate graph application relating to the specific data set allocated. The words which I used to describe the number students in the BENV1010 course consisted of holistic, experimental. umbrella, collective and creative


Experimental -
 

Collective -
 

Holistic 2 -
  

Creative -
  

umbrella (overarching) -
  


All of these colour swatches and image generations allowed me to generate a sufficient and engaging colour palet to use throughout my database graph generated in adobe illustrator.

Photoshop Work

The photoshop workshop online was quite challenging initially but allows me to redevelop previously learned skills and utilise them in a creative way to place the provided image (in my case the arch) in the specified site. Although it was largely time consuming it was highly beneficial and taught me the required skills which allowed me to become more confident utilising the adobe application.

Original Image 

Photoshopped Image

Second attempt - 

Photoshopped second attempt - 

Third photoshop attempt  - 

Communications in the BE - week 1

Communications on the Built Environment - week 1 - photoshop task

the site project entitled 'tracing a city' is the group project which is to be completed this term within the course. we started working on the assignment during out site designation and group allocation which occurred in the second half of the first lesson. I was very happy about my group and excited about the site which we had been allocated as it encompassed lots of diverse and creative architectural and design elements which I knew would act as important and stylistic features for the upcoming assignment. we were given the science block, the front of the engineering building and also the walkway in-between and the secluded seating area within the greenery behind the science building. Our initial task was to take pictures of the site in the hope that one of them could be used in the home photoshopping task. there was also further documentation required such as site sketches, locating the dimensions, analysing visual aspects and determining the structural elements such as how many door and windows were located on the site. this was very interesting and I became really optimistic about the photoshop task as home which was challenging but once I understood the methods and steps required, this became straight forward. the online tutorials were very helpful and allowed me to become more familiar with the specific application.

Communications in the Built Environment - Week 1

Week 1 - lesson one -
Experimental drawings and photoshop skills

The first communications studio was slightly overwhelming in the fact that we are grouped altogether as one collective and encouraged to utilise the skills provided in out separate disciplines to bring a unique flavour to the course. The group work and smaller tutorial activities were highly engaging and beneficial as a start off to the lesson where drawing and quick sketching was explored. It was very interesting to see the different approached adopted by different students on how to handle the sketching and fast paced atmosphere in the studio class.