Claire Smyth AAD009 Drawing in Practice: Alt. Means – House Brief (stilts / skyscrape)
For this task / activity for the whole day we were instructed to create 2 – 3 houses on stilts made from any craft and recycled materials around your house (which was able to freely stand) under a certain time frame. Making a city scape was in fact also instructed for us to design throughout this workshop in which I overall made 3 houses and 1 city scape, where my cityscape had various sizes of different windowed buildings include a wide range of household materials.
The overall materials that in which I was able to access and use to successfully build multiple houses on stilts and a cityscape was a range of: cardboard boxes, straws, hot glue gun, toilet roll tubes, coloured card, egg cartons, empty food packaging, cereal boxes, photo film, newspaper, wool, thread, matches, tin cans, pins, labels and an array of pens to add in detail like windows / doors etc.
I particularly enjoyed this task and creating / designing the houses etc as it overall required a lot of thinking in order to make sure that it was successful in regards to standing on its on (structure wise), scale and how appealing / realistic it looks, which to complete I used various cardboard pieces to create a solid standing structure to where I then added details of Windows and doors etc with other ranges of materials along with drawing.
(Date task was Completed: 28/09/2020).