Design a 3D space from

your Heaven or Hell

 

Learning Objectives:

It is hoped that this project will lead students to demonstrate a complex understanding of:

- the concept of overt and covert communication

- her / his own covert and overt preferences and fears

- how elements of art and composition (placement) form the emotive impact and success of a design

- how to design and represent a space or place that solicits an affective response from an intended audience\

Preface:

This project is first couched in a discussion about Overt & Covert intentions of built environments. Ideal models include schools & churches.

Bosch, Hieronymous (1460-1516)

Garden of Earthly Delights

Left wing, "Paradise"

We all have our own notion of things that are heavenly or from hell. In this project you will use the tools of two-point perspective, the elements of art and principles of design to construct a space that would exist within your heaven or hell. Before this can happen you need to resolve what your idea of this space is. We will use a few strategies to get there.

STRATEGIES

1. Take 30 minutes and, in small groups of two or three, sketch out (visually or in written form) the following:

  • an anorexics hell
  • a mobsters heaven
  • a doggo hell
  • a politicians heaven
  • a lawyers hell
  • -- come up with a few of your own.

2. Get together with another group to share and discuss your creations.

3. On your own, in writing, identify characteristics that would be most pleasing and displeasing for you to be living with for eternity. Make a list for each. WARNING: Be careful what you wish for, as you will be with it for eternity!

Strategies could include:

-- keeping paper and a pencil with you at all times and jot down the this you come across that you are attracted to and repulsed by

-- scour magazines for images that attract and which repulse you.

Bosch, Hieronymous (1460-1516)

Garden of Earthly Delights

Right wing, "Hell"

4. Create thumbnail sketches of the various devices, items, and situations that may be in your heaven or hell. Also, experiment with colour pallets and textures.

5. Assemble your objects and environment in a matrix (a 3D cube arranged in a grid, allowing you to see how things may be arranged in space).

6. Once you have arrived at the BEST ideas for your space, including colours and textures, begin to draw your space on a 20 x26" sheet of paper (Mayfair). Two-Point perspective is a tool to help you create the illusion of internal and external spaces. To create an organic space in 2Pt, each object should first be drawn as a cube then chiseled out of the cube.

* To stretch your perspective on things, you should get a kick out of these cartoons by Rube Golberg. Go to http://www.rubegoldberg.com/html/gallery.htm

For ideas in the surreal:

Salvador Dali

Rene Magritte

For contemporary glimpse into the surreal:

Francesco Clemente

Sigmar Polke

 

** For help with perspective drawing, visit: http://www2.evansville.edu/studiochalkboard/

Text Box: EVALUATION:

process/ sketches (5)

creativity /technical (5)

thematic resolve (5)

overall aesthetic quality (5)

critical reflection (5)

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