Architecture Design: Understanding the Feeling of Personal Spaces.

Architecture Design Classes are an integral part of my education as an Architect. These Design classes comprise the best of both worlds: The Art and the more formal Technical education. 

For our very first class this design semester, we were asked to put in the essence of what personal spaces meant to us onto cheap brown sheets. The brown sheets would help eliminate notions of formality that we generally associate with cartridge or white paper. The significance of binding paper, then leads us to put our thoughts onto paper in graphical form without going too much into our rather technical and formal upbringing.

The lesson itself: Bringing the essence of our personal spaces onto paper, was a tough one because a feeling of a space, is rather an abstract notion. Therefore, my thoughts went out to defined curves and lines that are very abstract in their form but which, for me, help denote the "feeling" of the space.

The first few images are more abstract in their bearing. The next part of the exercise comprised of depicting parts of our own home onto these brown sheets so that we understood better what our personal space meant to us and how we connected with it. 

All the drawings were done in charcoal. This, being a new medium to us, was rather difficult to use. Even more so when we were dealing with 'feelings' of spaces. Being completely new to the medium and also rather awkward with new and uncharted design processes, I felt quite new to this process of thinking. 

From here on, the focus shifted from the feeling of spaces, to actually looking at personal spaces at home and depicting them onto this paper. I have tried to depict the feel of the space rather than focus on the quality of the drawing that I was making.

This last picture was supposed to be done in colour so as to show the change from charcoal to colour pencil. It also provided a relief from the same usage of materials, from Class 1.

My basic understanding of this lesson, is to be able to feel connected to a personal space and look into it as something that is closer to us. Since the main project this semester deals with HOUSING, its rather important to understand spaces that are habitable and that make us feel at home. These starting lessons, were a good way for us to look at out own spaces, from a different point of view.