Photomontage and collage

Most sketches aren’t created to scale. These drawings are created for observational, analytical or developmental purposes. This is the advantage of sketching: it allows you to work through a design problem visually and develop your response to it iteratively. Similarly, diagrams used in site or building analysis are not necessarily drawn to scale; often these communicate a specific idea or understanding of a building or space and, as such, scale is again irrelevant.

Photomontage and collage work is not created to any particular scale as the intention underlying these forms of representation is the communication of the architectural idea. These artistic investigations and presentations offer the opportunity to visually explore an idea in a dynamic way and suggest both impossible and possible scenarios and situations.

scheme reinterprets the standard British terrace house with twenty-first century requirements for density, planning flexibility, sustainability, ownership and security. dRMM’s proposal continues the split-level arrangement of the adjacent terraces, with steps and ramps going down to a garden level approximately one-metre below the street.

This perspective drawing gives a glimpse into the courtyard space and also describes the elevation of the proposed development and how the building will connect with the courtyard design.

This exercise will look at measuring and proportion. You will first measure and draw objects at real size to better understand how the size of these objects alters as they are drawn at a range of different scales. You will draw at:

1:2 scale (half size)

1:20 scale (one-twentieth real size)

1:200 scale (one two-hundredth real size)

Notice that each of these scales increases by a factor of ten.