Week 1

Free-hand perspective drawings

First weeks task was to free hand sketch a perspective of a building. There was limited information provided within each of the three groups in the class, and we was provided with the elevations and sections only of the building. For the task I found that we had the easiest information to sketch the envelope of the building.

Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava is a Spanish Architect, a structural engineer and a sculptor primarily in Switzerland. The Valencia complex is a very interesting building Santiago designs are described as exoskeleton look, smooth curves and lines, simple yet complex and functional all with no budget.

Its interesting to see the use of the colour white which Santiago use in most of his designs, thus creating a simplistic feeling about design. The structural engineer background Santiago has put a lot towards his designs.