FIRST: This s not about the garden. It is about the aggregate of models and drawings you've done so far this semester, which are autonomous but about the garden. As you mull over the spatial qualities listed below consider how your paper, string, and foam models WORK. Use the issues and qualities we see in your project as a guide or source for how you do the next drawing.
THIRD: Follow this path through analysis...
What are the SPACES of the garden? (list them)
Are there "like" SPACES? (organize the list into a catalog)
Think through sketching the issues listed below for each SPACE in your garden STUDIES:
size (width by depth by height)
location (where in universal space?)
proportional (tall, short, deep, wide, etc.)
scalar (how big? how big in comparison?)
structural, (grounding, holding, joining, shimming, held, datum, armature)
hierarchical (primary, secondary, tertiary, background)
bounding surfaces (open, closed, solid, void, framed, striated, patterned)
material (solid, open, screen, object, light, heavy, rough, smooth)
Your speculations on each of these category sets won't yield results. Which category or categories seem to reflect in your garden models and catalog?
Which ideas seem animated when you consider your garden work to date?
Draw the individual SPACES in the garden each in plan projection drawing on a sheet of 24 by 24 vellum. Arrange the individual pieces in a system, organization, or composition that explores how these individual SPACES relate in the garden models. Think it out just by drawing it. Don't figure it out. Think it through, just t start tentatively building up the SPACES on the sheet of vellum in a coherent relationship, modify, augment, and edit the relationship of SPACES, and explore where there may be ideas of you garden in the models you've made. The models inform the garden, this work informs the models. Explore your models and study the garden by drawing it. Draw freely.
This drawing should be ready to discuss by the beginning of class on Thursday. We'll break the class into thirds on Thursday.
