Ranch Final Powerpoint

Other Drawings from Ranch

Drawings that did not make the final presentation:

Bedrooms

Activity Room & Kitchen

Fire Place Elevations & Foyer

Living Room

Public Space : Living and Dining Spaces

Cataloge Furnishings : Living Room

Custom Furnishings & Color Study

Custom Made Furniture

Partner Parti Charette

For this part of the exploration of a parti, the class was told to pair up with people in studio who are very different from each other in order to gain a new perspective other then our own when it came to development of our concepts. I partnered with Shane and gained a helpful insight into my own design, it was also helpful to talk out my ideas to help me figure out what it was I really wanted to convey.

My reaction to Shane's original parti drawings and sketch models.

Parti that my partner Shane created after listening to my description of my own parti and what I wanted to achieve with my art piece.

Shane agreed that my concept did indeed have to do with color, but also suggested that my design should not be as compartmental as I was originally thinking. She suggested I think about how the brush stroke colors in my painting are clustered near the center and then radiate out, intertwining with each other.

Bungalow Models

1":1' scale model of my bungalow dining room sideboard.

Another view of my 1":1' scale model of my bungalow dining room sideboard.

3":1' scale model of my sconce lighting fixture in my bungalow dining room.

Gathering Precedent and Inspiration

Where to go on from here:

Art Piece: Abstraction # 507 0 (1950)
Artist: Vincent Pepi (American Abstract Expressionist 1926)

Finalized visual parti

After generating my conceptual parti from my artist and art piece, the next step is to take it from conceptual to the beginnings of the design process. How does this parti basis begin to take the form of readable elements in an interior space?

Schröder House by dutch architect Gerrit Rieveld

Utrecht, Netherlands 1924

One reason I think of Gerrit Rietveld's Schröder House is because of the primary color scheme it entails similarly to what is in my art piece and finalized parti. This interior is more structured in it's organization than the abstracted expressionism of my painting and the fluidity of my parti, but the idea of color assignment to surfaces, nooks and furnishings in a contrastingly black and white interior intrigues me.

Eames House (Case Study House No. 8) by Charles and Ray Eames
Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles 1988

Eames house is inspiring to me because of the materiality uses as well as the contrasting primary colors.

Ranch Charrette : Model Assembling

Quick sketch models inspired by our parti conceptual gesture:

Parti conceptual gesture reaction to light and shadow

Parti conceptual gesture reaction to color and shape

Parti conceptual gesture reaction to materiality.

Ranch Charrette : Concept Visualization

Parti (n.)- The basic scheme or concept of an architectural design.

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Here are some gestural images generated from the Ranch house parti. Utilizing our selected art piece, mine being Abstraction #507 0 by Vincent Pepi, and the research we gained from our abstract expressionist we were to explore through drawing what would end up becoming our concept for the Ranch House.

In researching Vincent Pepi and other abstract expressionists of the time, I found an important influence in their "splattered" painting style were the elements in Jazz music. So while utilizing the dominate element of design of color I listened to jazz just like the artists had in order to be inspired.

Jazz Group: Nuclear Whales (Saxophone Jazz Band)
Songs: "Harlem Nocture", "Summertime", and "Duke Ellington Medley".

A first attempt at listening to a piece, automatically I picked up on different instruments and depicted them in different colors. Yellow being soprano, blue being tremble, and red being the bass line.

Then I began exploring how the piece was composed and how all the instruments played together to create the composition.

Exploration of the soloist.

After this gestural period of following beats and pitches I was urged by my professor to take elements from the gestures I drew and start simplifying towards a concept. From my observations of the piece in my drawings I drew the conclusion of a soaring soprano line, an active treble line, and a steady bass line.

First couple attempts at achieving a simplified version of my observations.

The more I attempted to simplify the more I realized that I also wanted to keep the element of a "collision" of sound that sometimes occurred in the jazz pieces, so my spread out elements became more integrated.

Final Conceptual Parti:

Conceptual ideas derived from Parti:

Rhythm
Line
Shape
Color