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Summer project
This is intended to be an enjoyable introduction to
some of the issues that we will be discussing and
developing over the coming year. It will primarily
introduce you to the challenge of representing
space - a process that is vital for your chosen
discipline of designing three-dimensional
environments, as well as, introduce you to the
process of exhibition and review that all design
schools share.
To do
Construct a three dimensional portrait of:
• your CITY;
• your HOUSE;
• your ROOM.
Material & technique
Use only white cardboard/heavy weight paper
to build three reliefs representing three spaces:
your city, your house and your room. A relief is
a sculptured artwork where a modelled form is
raised (or lowered) from a plane from which the
main elements of the composition project (or
sink).
For your three spatial portraits, you might stack
and glue different layers, you might cut out
certain areas, or you might cut and fold parts of
the cardboard/heavy weight paper plane. Please
do not use any additional materials.
Elements to represent
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It is up to you to define the phenomena you want
to depict in your reliefs. The following is just a list
of elements that you could include in your spatial
portraits:
•CITY: the topography of the (surrounding)
landscape / the silhouette of the urban roofscape
/ landmark buildings that represent your city /
the soundscape of the local birds / etc.
•HOUSE: the facade or a relief-plan of the
building you live in / a diagram of your family’s
movement (parents, brothers and sisters, cats
and dogs etc.) / a representation of the staircase
and how it is used / etc.
•ROOM: the view from your window / important
pieces of furniture / a map of your working desk
/ a 3D representation of your music collection
/ a sculptural version of the last book you have
read / etc.