Laura
Greenwood
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Project Background
YEAR: Fall 2020 - First Year MFA
LENGTH: 5 Weeks
PROGRAMS & SKILLS: Revit, Photoshop, Hand Sketching
This composition was submitted to the Art Room Gallery's "Contemporary" online exhibition and was selected was accepted to be apart of the online exhibition.
This project was completed during a 5 week "Experimental Graphics" course that encouraged the students to push their graphic styles and explore new forms of telling the story of projects through graphic techniques. For this challenge I chose to focus on a project from my Studio II course in undergrad. The project it comes from was a residential project in which the residents were planning to age-in-place and wanted two homes of different color schemes but identical floorplans, in two different locations. The location I chose I focused on in this graphic was the Portland, OR home.
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For more insight on the project this composition was inspired by, please click on the button below.
This experimental graphics explored a mixed composition of hand sketching and photoshop. The process started with a hand sketch and included layering the floorplan under the sketch for viewers to have an orientation within the space. Once this was done a second sketch was added onto the image to balance the composition. Both images were then rendered using a collage style rendering in photoshop. Next, because the project heavily relied on context and local vernacular of the location for design influence, trees that are local to Oregon were added on the outside of floorplan. Finally a mirrored image of the front façade was added to give context of where the front entrance into the home from the view point of the viewer. Below are images that show the steps of the process.
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