Monday, April 20, 2009

Draft Narrative for Assignment Two

ROOMS FOR A WIDOW WHO WANTS TO KEEP MEMORIES OF HER PARTNER WHO HAD PASSED AWAY FROM A TRAGIC INCIDENT.

Explanation of Assignment One

As you know, me and my partner Deepika are working on Geoffery Bawa's villa whom the client was supposed to be Dr Batholuzweuz however the practice ended up using the building. What's interesting about the building is that it has a mixture of interior and exterior spaces. The exterior spaces can be revealed by the courtyards at the front, middle and end of the villa. We see that this villa has interior to exterior transitions and exterior to interior transitions. The front building of the villa is usually for the servants or low class people, then as you move to the main buildings we see that the far right enclosed spaces serve the office for Geoffery Bawa and the administrative department. With the drawings

Model Pictures for Assignment One: Geoffery Bawa






















Research for Assignment Two- Paragraph About The "Morning Sun"

The widow as we can see is suffering from depression as well as some anger management issues. We see that this widow is behaving in that way because of a tragic incident which turned her life upside down. This tragic incident could refer to her partner whom she had known and got along for years who suddenly got killed in a accident or died from an illness. The isolation of the widow shows the depressing side that she has no one to support her or help her out. The isolation also shows anger on why this incident had turned that widow's life has been ruined. Hopper defined the widow as a 68 year old as shown in a autobiography by Gail Levin which gives clues that her life has been wasted and there nothing else she wants to do for leisure. The location of the widow's room is a bedroom situated in a apartment block in Washingston Square, the surburbia area of New York City. We see that reflections of lighting had played an important role in the painting which is common with all of Hopper's paintings.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Start of ARCH1201 and my background so far

Hi fellows, as you know I am a second year Arch Comp student however I've been doing Technical Drawings in Years 9 and 10 during my time in high school. I pretty keen with architecture because I like exploring nature of the design of buildings and coming up with lots of fantastic mind blowing ideas. Just for a start I decided to start researching on one of Geoffery Bawa's villa design, which was one of the buildings I like to work on for my first assignment. I found some website links on information of this villa just for the start of this course and I'll be finding books about Geoffery Bawa's work and photocopying relevant info if possible.

Links for Geoffery Bawa's architecture:
-http://www.archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=7285 (accessed 11/3/2009, 10:44am)