B. 5 Sketching & Drafting (SM&SS)

Design Tools & Workouts

• Design by Music (Fidelio Overture)
• Music translation to Architecture
• High & Low notes and Silences as space design tools
• Design by Freedom
• Calligraphy non-pattern dot exercise
• Imperfection, chance operation and accidents
• Mystery & Imagination
• “The Windows”, Charles Baudelaire poem
• Design by Nature
• Without an architectural structure, we search an emotional path of travel
• Labyrinth Design
• With an open vegetation structure, we search an emotional path of travel
• Emotional Room
• Within an architectural structure, we search an emotional space
• “If you don’t understand how to practice (Architecture) in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique”.
• Poetry and emotion above technique. (Bod Dylan Music reference)

Sketching

• Floor Plan and Section
• Sketch through an emotional path of travel (from street curb, walking-drawing through the house)
• Floor plan and section design only (No computer and no modeling and no façade design)
• Design from inside out and Void shaping Massing, as well as outdoor spaces shaping massing and interior spaces.
• Exterior Living
• House hidden or highly filtered by vegetation from the street
• Intimate living, almost no windows to the street