Richcraft Hall Stairs - 2017-12-08 Hand-drafted Pencil on Strathmore - 22” x 17” Richcraft Hall Stairs is a to-scale hand-drafted drawing of the Richcraft Hall Stairs on Carleton Campus. The drawing pays extra close attention to line weights and small details including location of guardrail posts, the textures beyond and the placements of objects that are within the vicinity of the stairs. The drawing also includes a set of scale figures to give a better sense of the place.
Richcraft Hall Stairs - 2017-12-08 Hand-drafted Pencil on Strathmore - 22” x 17” Richcraft Hall Stairs is a to-scale hand-drafted drawing of the Richcraft Hall Stairs on Carleton Campus. The drawing pays extra close attention to line weights and small details including location of guardrail posts, the textures beyond and the placements of objects that are within the vicinity of the stairs. The drawing also includes a set of scale figures to give a better sense of the place.
ASAU OTTAWA
EXERCISE 9
DRAWING SCALE
BODY SCALE
A series of explorations question the modularity and dimensions that are generated by the metric and the foot and inch systems pondering the difference between dimensional and proportional scale. Proportional and dimensional systems are compared to each other. Pondering the notion of scale in architecture, students survey existing stairs to reflect on the origin of the word scale, which comes from the Latin scala (stairs).
Emmons, Paul. “Size Matters: Virtual Scale and Bodily Imagination in Architectural Drawing.” ARQ 9, 3-4: 227-235.