Planar Garden Elements - Color, Light, pattern, and Space
Through a series of exercises you will be investigating color, light, pattern, and space for your garden. The elements can be imagined as surfaces with repeating relief patterns, lattice work to filter light, or subtle planes to diffuse light. Photography will used to explore and record design ideas and concepts.
You will be completing the investigations over a series of exercises. Each designed to investigate a different quality of surface, color, light and space. the first exercise focuses on pattern and relief.
PART I - REPEATING RELIEF - 3-D PRINTING
IN CLASS Monday, October 21
1. Precent - Study the following and become familiar with the use of the following term and application pattern, color, and light is space. The appropriate use of the precedent is not literal reproduction of ideas, but awareness and inspiration.
- Maharam - Repeating Pattern - Color - Digital Medium - Study Collaborators and Digital Projects
- http://www.maharam.com/products/mdp
- http://www.maharam.com/collaborators
- Bisazza - Tile - Mosaic - Color - Study Designers and Projects
- http://www.bisazza.com/#/designers_us_0_3_0.html
- Shoji Screen - Filter and regulator of light. - Reference the Katsura Imperial Villa
- Mashrabiya (regulator of light with pattern) - Reference the Alhambra
2. Repeating Relief Tile - Quickly create a variety (12 or more) 5"X5" square "sketch" compositions that are inspired from a combination or precedent study and your garden design. You are designing a basic pattern for a tile that will be repeating on a wall surface.
Use three basic shapes found in your garden and regulating lines to create the pattern. Keep the design clean and abstract.
Keep you work restrained, minimal, and use the principles and elements you have learned in class to provide creative boundaries.
Consider both a counterpoint (contrasting) design idea or a complementary (similar) design idea for your garden surface design.
Study the detailed tile and the holistic impact of the repeat over a larger surface.
Imagine each of your sketches as a wall element 5' X 5' and a repeating pattern element 5"X5". Your sketches should explore the pattern as a repeating element.
DUE Wednesday, October 23
1. Select two of the 5"X5" studies and complete a 10" X 10" value studies in Illustrator or by hand drafting on art paper. Using 3-5 grays from 20% - 80% create a sense of spatial depth to the pattern by filling shapes and forms in the design. Create a unique compositional print or drawing for each design. =
2. Transform the above 10"X10" designs for a tile into a 10" X 10" X 2" tile in Sketchup. Use the gray value study to suggest advancing or receding elements in the relief design. Make sure that your design of the sketchup model is closed (well formed) so it may be 3-D printed. Make all of the receding elements no more than a total of 1" deep
Create a second version of your tile designs in repeat form sketchup by repeating the tile 10 times X 10 times to create a 100" X 100" repeat.
Future Dates:
Wednesday, October 23 - 3- D Printer Demo
Friday, October 25 - Photography Demo - Please bring your camera to class.