INITIAL IDEAS GENERATION-CRAZY EIGHT

  This post is about the crazy eight-idea generation task done in the third session this week, we were tasked with making a couple of quick two-minute drawings of ideas related to the three themes given to us in the previous session. 

    Drawings

The image above displays the crazy-eight idea I did in class, I did eight quick sketches illustrating all the themes provided. Starting from the top left of the image, I drew a maze that was based on the theme 'of primitivism'. There was no research to back this but what I was thinking about when this idea came to my head was Stonehenge. The second drawing is related to the pop art theme, I was thinking of creating a community stadium whereby the body of the stadium would be designed in a very colourful and attractive way. The third drawing was in relation to the second based on the theme, the idea was to draw a children's care home where a few children can stay and feel at home. Next to it is an inspirational drawing from the Egyptian pyramids, the drawing is a birds-eye view showing the top of the building. Following this was a sketch of a skyscraper kind of in the shape of a lightning bolt, at the time of drawing this I did not really have any idea behind it but it ended up coming out okay. The sixth drawing is a drawing of a residential block that includes apartments for residents to live in, I was inspired by the industrial theme. The seventh drawing is related to the fifth drawing in a way that I was just allowing my hand to move and make random shapes, looking at it vertically, there may not be any reasonable structure, but, if looked at horizontally, it looks like a building with a concrete rear and a glassy front. For the last drawing, I was thinking of animals that I could get inspiration from which have some historical meaning to relate with primitivism but instead, I thought of a spider web which has a nice structure, the drawing shows a bird eye view which looks like a flat spider web, but which looked at normally, it is a building layered up continuously with hexagons while reducing in size as it goes upward.

After the crazy eight idea generation, we were tasked with making another set of drawings by picking one of the drawings from the crazy eight and developing more ideas from that particular one.

 

This was one of the quick sketches that I made, developing the idea of the fifth drawing in the initial crazy eight idea generations. I was thinking of sketching a form of organic-shaped building that would look like it was layered on each other. I also got inspired by Stonehedge which was talked about in class. This architectural structure is a historical monument that displays some stones standing and others placed on top of the standing stones. My sketch has a little similarity with Stonehedge, it has a round structure and it is designed as stones layered on each other but has room spaces in them. This sketch was not developed on for my final project, but it has the prospect of being a project I will work on in the near future.

This was another sketch following up the fifth drawing picked from the crazy eight, For this particular drawing I was thinking of the Greek architecture and how is is well known for its predominant columns. I was trying to achieve something similar to this but it did not come out well. This drawing will not be related to my final project design as it is under a different theme from the one I have chosen for my project. Further development of this design could produce a brilliant idea for another project .

The next thing I will do is to use the idea generated from all the sketched and merge the ideas with the next task (the object task) to get the idea for my final project which I will work on throughout the course of the term.