brief:
The aim of Framed Views and the subsequent Explorations is to look at how we can use any building, site or object as a starting point for generating new ideas and how we take simple 2-dimensional sketches and create complex and expressive 3-dimensional forms. The idea of the Explorations projects is how we can create surprising outcomes from anything around us – all we have to do is observe and record.
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Exploration 1:framed views
Beginning with an A5 piece of card. I started exploring my surroundings, getting up and close with different materials around me. Focusing in on minuscule shapes and different shadows. I then drew each photograph I captured into a frame, with quick movements and sketch.
Once I had sketched all my explorations, I scaled them on to A4 sheets. The brief specified A2 but I thought If I scaled it to A4 I would have more of an impact in the detail and layering once it came to tracing it onto our pieces of card. I thought maybe it would give more line work to the page, But if I was to do it again I would definitely use A2 as it would be a lot simpler when it came to transferring to the tracing paper. Another thing that made this area of the task difficult was not being able to find an A2 tracing paper so instead using 4 A4 sheets, but in future I plan to be more prepared with materials.
Then, once I had finished tracing my sketches onto the A2, of which I used a grey colour. I started to cut into my card, along the lines I had created. Bending and folding different angles at random experimenting with different shapes and shadows. With different frames and view points through out. Once I was satisfied with how my cutting had be done, I started to shape and warp the card into several different forms in order to find which I aesthetically enjoyed best but... Disaster struck! I cut too close to one of my previous cutting lines, because at this point I hadn't started using dotted cut lines for sections I was only folding. So a quarter of my A2 page came apart from the rest, but because I like to make the best out of a bad situation I decided to create a smaller version of my origami structure. Almost an annex building of the same style and colours and shapes just 5x smaller.