Final Project: Gorontalo Traditonal House and its Roof Structure

Final project was studying Indonesia'a Traditional House through maquette, block plan, and architectural drawings.

My team chose Gorontalo Traditional House. We made the maquette by using balsa wood, PVC pipe, board, art carton, pylox. For the block plan, we used art carton, acrylic paint, tree model, grass, car model, wooden stick.

After the teamwork is done, we made our individual assignments which includes architectural drawings (elevation, section, block plan, floor plan). To make each presentation different, everybody has different content to mainly talk about. I choose roof structure of Gorontalo Traditional House. It is said that roof structure is the a part that get less change since the first time the house was built.

In the end, we made a design report as a record and explanation about our final project.

Bus Stop Drawing and Analysis

The drawing and analysis is about bus stop across to Faculty of Economy, University of Indonesia.

First we measure the bus stop by ourselves. Then we draw and put the quantitative data. Bus stop in University of Indonesia looks all the same. But since they are (obviously) located in different place, they have different site analysis.

Interior Perspective

the picture below is a drawing of reading room in Perpusat UI (Central Library UI)

Fruits and Vegetables

Why architecture students need to draw fruits and vegetables? Do they actually similar to buildings?!

No. But we can learn a lot from drawing these fruits and vegetables. We actually learn how to draw elevation and section, but in smaller scope. The goal is to make us understand about what is elevation and section. We also learn how to shade and add shadow. Without them, the drawing will look so cold. Shade and shadow make the drawings look real.

Perspective Drawing

As an architect, perspective drawing are very essential. The pictures below are drawn without ruler.

Perspective drawing has a function to show not the building but also the surrounding. How is the building situated? and things like that.

Human Proportion

Hi again :)

As an architecture student, it is also important to draw people. Why? Architecture is about building, right?

Well, no. Architecture is about space and people. We don't make space or building if there are not people.

In architectural drawing like perspective, the drawing will be considered not "alive" if there is no people. In elevation, section, etc, human is also required to be drawn for proportion.

So here are my human proportion drawing.

Line and Circle

LINES

Hi :)

These were exercises that took a lot of patience to finish. At first it was fine. But then it was tiring and boring, to be honest. But you have to do it, I still remembered what Mr. Toga said in the briefing for this assignment.

The pictures below are just example of whole task. First we draw 4 boxes on A3 paper, then fill the box with requiered element.

Straight Line

(1) Straight line: Horizontal, diagonal, vertical.

Wavy Line

(2) Wavy line: Horizontal, diagonal, vertical.

Cross Line

(3) Straight line: combination of horizontal & vertical, diagonal right & left.

Circle

(4) Circles: the radius varies

Every exercise took 15 A3 pages (each of them looks similar, that's why I only post 1 example for every exercise). The purpose of this exercise is not to teach us about how to draw line and circle without ruler (everybody could do that even though the result is not perfect). I think it's about practicing--repeating thousand times--basic element. And how to be patient and not stress out even though our eyes had already felt tired. 

I think this exercise is important because it teach us how to draw more neatly. Like when the line shouldn't come out from the box, even though only a little. In the future, architect will draw for the clients. It is better to provide them with good and neat drawing so they will understand easier. That is part of communication, after all.

WEEK #1

Week #1 Comtech of Acrhitecture

The purpose of the assignments is to practice our ability to communicate through our drawings.

EX-01. Theme: Emotion. Pencil on A3 paper.

Crushing a can; when we have a certain emotion, we tend to deliver it to something. From this sketch, I want to tell about someone in anger who delivers his emotion by crushing a can.

EX-02. Theme: Dream. Pencil on A3 paper.

 Chasing a dream is like climbing upon a hill; our road in chasing our dream is never straight flat. We have many ups and downs just like when we are climbing up the hill. Our dream, which is our goal, is represented by the top of the hill. In order to be there, we have to keep moving forward.

EX-03. Theme: Dream. Pencil color on A3 paper.

Staring at the mermaid; a little girl has a fantasy of seeing a mermaid she always believed existed. When we're children, it's always easier for us to believe something that sounds impossible. Then we grow up and become more realistic. In dreaming, don't let that side entirely go. Sometimes we have to believe what looks/sounds impossible.