Sunday, August 28, 2011

sequence: diagramming a building

this semester we're being introduced to diagramming buildings. last week we made a trip over to the weatherspoon art museum and were told to write a narrative about visiting the museum. using our narrative (or doing it separately) we drew thumbnails of the sequence of events/ different spaces in the building. from that we were told to make our thumbnails into one big diagram that somehow clearly expressed the building and the space.
for my narrative i wrote from the point of view of an art student who had sculpture class in the gatewood studio arts building and then art history in the WAM. my trip took me from the studio to the weatherspoon and i had a few sidetrips along the way. in my diagram i expressed the trip step by step and emphasized the more important steps in different ways. The bigger squares are the main objectives and the main places i needed to go on my trip to class. the smaller ones are side trips and distractions. the more i drew my diagram over and over the better it got.







i definitely think that next time i'll focus less on the step-by-step details and think "bigger picture". its all about learning, right?

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