For this project, you will create a multi-page document about one or more buildings or built environments. You can document existing precedents or feature your original designs, using images from your own 3D digital model, vector drawings and supplemental public domain images.  Multiple projects should be represented in a consistent fashion with text that compares and contrasts specific aspects (i.e. regional building tradition, passive design, spatial sequence.

Students will work with partners for this project in groups of 2 to 4 students.  Project complexity should be commensurate with the size of the group.  Please contact your GTF immediately for help in finding partners.

FORMAT

The document should have at least 2 pages per person (4 pages for a pair, 6 pages for 3 people) that are graphically coordinated, with a cover that has impact from 10 feet away.   While the default format is four pages of 8 ½” x 11” (i.e. two sheets of 11 x 17 affixed back-to-back and folded in half), you can propose a booklet or folded brochure format that doesn’t exceed 14” x 17” is allowed.  The document can be laid out in either Illustrator or InDesign – the latter has more tools for multi-page documents.  Please print the final document in color. 

Consider how elements such as lines, shapes, background colors and typography can unify the layout. Use Proximity, Alignment, Repetition and Contrast to increase the impact of your poster.

PROCESS

1. Compose
Use thumbnail sketches to examine possible layouts, planning how the story unfolds.  Keep one idea to each page or double-page spread.

2. Create components
Using the presentation components list below, create and refine a 3D model for the views needed to complete the layout, and develop a complete set of images in Sketchup, Photoshop, Illustrator. or other software. Pay attention to lineweights and contrast for full legibility.

Plan a color scheme and find fonts to fit your project.

3. Mockups & Test prints
Do test prints often to check the line weight, composition, and color balance; bring them to the required 3 conferences.

4. Web version
Save a copy of your final Illustrator or InDesign file as an Adobe PDF file and export images as JPGs. In Photoshop, select excerpts for your webpage, crop and Save for Web.  Include an image of the overall layout, using Image > Image Size to make it appropriate for posting on the web. Use the images to create one or more webpages for your course web portfolio.  Include your design concept statement.

5. Final presentation
The reworked design and layout in high-end print out quality will be presented with your web portfolio printouts at our Final review on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 1pm in rooms 278 and 279 Lawrence. 

In addition to submitting the final print on paper in color and the webposting, you are required to save your final layout in PDF format and burn it onto a CD-ROM and hand it in with your GTF. Please make sure that you put your name and project name on the CD.

COMPONENTS

The document must include the following:

1. Design statement that introduces the document focus and 2D or 3D Diagrams showing the essential ideas in a concise graphical format.  Use Illustrator to control the graphic characteristics of the diagrams.

2.  Orthogonal drawings (4). Drawings need to follow standard architectural graphics, with particular attention to lineweight.  Experiment with eliminating borders, showing colored line work against a unifying background.

• 1 floor plan (include as many as needed for your design)
• 1 cross section with interior elevation beyond
• 2 elevations

3. 3D Analytical drawing

• i.e. Show spatial relationships with color-coded 3D masses and bold circulation lines,
• i.e. Show construction systems with an exploded hidden-line axonometric view:  whole building (see Dennis Fukai’s Nest) or partial, i.e. a Window Bay.

4. Perspective sequence (3)
A spatial sequence of at least 3 Perspectives that communicates the experience of your project, including one interior. Choose views carefully to showcase the most important "events" of your building. Develop the images created in the modeling program using Photoshop or Illustrator.  Include materials, shadows, site context, and entourage.

5. Title block

• Project Name – make it embody the spirit of your project
• Names of your team members
• Instructor,
• Class Name: Arch 610 Intro to Architectural Computer Graphics
• GTF name, Section number (1 = Wed morning, 2 = Wed eve, 3 = Thurs, 4 = Fri)
• Date

6.  Optional: integrate construction details and images of a physical model.

FOR THE AMBITIOUS
Print alternative versions of your layout (can be on 11" x 17" paper).  Bring them to both conferences and the final review for discussion.

REFERENCES
Dennis Fukai’s Small House Construction illustrated with Sketchup
Ellen Lupton's Thinking with Type
The Poster Connection shows a wide range of high-impact graphics
Portfolio Design by Harold Linton on reserve in the AAA library