I think I understood the basics of projections however I still get a little bit confused between planometric projection with 45° angles and isometric projection. I believe I will understand it better by time & with practice. For me personally, the easiest way to differentiate whether the projection is Axonometric or Planometric is to ask myself ” Does the plan remain the same or is the plan angled?” If we are talking about a cube I would ask myself whether the plan is a square and if it remained the same angles.
I found this task quite interesting as I enjoy philosophical reading. I started by reading the text paragraph by paragraph and making notes underlining important parts from each page, drawing, making the keywords asking questions. Later on, I went through the notes I made during the reading and made a mindmap communicating the key findings from “How the line became straight”.
Reading and annotating
Many facts and logical correlations and even more philosophy, that’s how I would shortly describe the writing. Tim Ingold explained everything one could possibly want to know about lines and made me realize how everything around me is a line, a straight one or a curved one. Lines seem to have huge power and I have never realized before how only two connected points can represent masculinity, modernity, science, man-made world of culture or clear goal. Curves on the hand represent feminity, nature, primitiveness but they often seem to have a negative connotation in English such as twisted or crooked. Is that once we as humans produce something so artificially perfect as a straight line, anything else seems less perfect and primitive? Plotlines and guidelines are also an essential part of our lives that has been here since Ancient Egypt when they used threads to divide fields, lines were already part of human life back then. No plotline can exist without a guideline and both have their importance in the creative process. They bring order and rules to our lives such as lines in the middle of the road that communicates where are cars supposed to stay while driving on a particular side. Tim Ingold also dedicated a part of his writing to the ruler as a tool used by the smallest ones and the most skilled architects too, which brings control to our normally naturally curved hand drawing. An interesting point I found was about active lines, which exist only in freehand drawings, how measured and organised drawings might take away the creativity and texture of our lines. He pointed out how architects like to draw but don’t like to write as the drawing is a work which doesn’t need to be explained, it explains itself. No matter if lines are straight or curved they are opened, endless like the flow of thoughts or our lives which again brings back the point how much are we surrounded and affected by the existence of lines as such.
“For wherever you are, there is somewhere further you can go.” – Tim Ingold
As many people the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear the word “map” is some plan of space with physical features. Therefore I started by placing some of the pictures I took earlier throughout exercises 1.1 – 1.4 into the floor map I created based on my observings. This creates the general idea of space and one could clearly see what belongs where.
As I mentioned before people are an important part of the interior, in my chosen space there is a huge amount of people at the same time moving around the space and doing different things. I decided to capture movement using lines again as I found it a very convenient way to visualize movement in space.
Map from a previous exercise for beter understanding of the floor plan
My first map visualized well physical features of the space and movement around the space however one would get no further information about the feeling of the space or other details. Therefore I decided to create more of a metaphorical map with more personal input. I wrote down 50 words that come to my mind when I imagine sitting in Cafe Stein. Some of them are physical objects (chair, table, glass…) others are a description of space ( cozy, spacious…) or other observings that I gained through previous exercises. To put all of this into a form I decided to duplicate my words to create a pattern. I made a vector graphic design of a cup of black coffee as it is my usual order when I visit Cafe Stein and used it as a background.
From the second visual map combined with the first one, one could get all the essential information I gained while observing the café. At the same time, those maps combined create space for the viewer to match keywords with the space from the previous more physical map and lets the viewer imagine the feeling of space not just physical aspects of the interior.
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