Axonometric drawing workshop
“Perspective limits space; it has made it finite, closed (. . . ) Suprematism has extended the apex of the finite visual cone of perspective to infinity ( . . ) It has broken through the lampshade of the blue heavens.”
El Lissitzky quoted in Allen S. (2000)
Using the orthographic drawings provided* make an axonometric (plan oblique) drawing on your stretched water colour paper. Make the initial drawing with light, careful, precise, “whispering” lines. Don’t be afraid of drawing in lines for the construction of the axonometric.
Begin by drawing the entry level plan. As you do this consider the composition of the page.
From section A, section C, and the north and east elevations measure the vertical heights and transcribe these directly into your axonometric drawing. Remember axonometric drawing is measurable, horizontal distances and vertical heights can be directly takes for the orthographic drawings.
One you have the bare bones of the drawing, deduct from the information you have to imagine and draw the interior.
Decide what you will reveal and what you will conceal as you make your drawing.
Next week we will begin to use water colour to render these drawings.
*Drawings of Villa DallAva, St Cloud, Paris, completed 1991. From Koolhaas, R & Mau, B. (1995) S,M,L,XL. NY, Monacelli Press. For photographs of this project shown here.
