Final Project Diagrams

For the MIT Lobby at 700 Mass Ave, I chose to focus on four different diagrams.
First we had to show the floor plan of the building and an elevation that we wanted to focus on:

These are the diagrams:
1. Hierarchy

2. Natural Light

3. Circulation of People

and 

4. Symmetry

Each of these different diagrams expresses the function of the building from a plan view and an elevation.

Final Project

YES!!!! This semester is almost OVER!!!!!! It has been such a fun experience and I loved ever second of it. But back to the task at hand, Final Project!!!
For our final project, my class was assigned the MIT Lobby at 700 Mass Ave. It is an intersection for people to go from one MIT building to another.
Here are some pictures I took on a visit to the site:

The building itself is really cool. It has a wonderful staircase at the front for people to get in and out of the building and above is a huge dome like fixture protecting the building.

Going to the site, we had to observe as well.

Natural light, circulation, structure, hierarchy, etc.

The next part of this project is to diagram different things we observed in this building. 

BPL Drawing

It has been a long and extensive project, but I feel like my part of it came out very well.
For the final drawing we were asked to make a orthographical drawing of out building, thankfully my teacher said that because each room in the library is important in itself, I only had to draw one of the rooms instead of the whole building.
It was challenging at first, but after my second draft, I started to get the hang of it, and this is what I got!!!

(Ignore the different colors of the paper, that is just how they scanned)

This is the reading room of the older building to the Boston Public Library, it is located on the second floor ad is such a magnificent place to just sit and read. It was a lot of fun to really get to know the older part of the library because I was always just in the new part, so it was nice to travel back in time.

Perspective

YES!!!
I love perspective drawings, they are so much fun to do and I am very good at it.
This is a little exercise we did in class on two point perspective:

For this next project we were give a place to draw, but in a perspective view. My teacher gave my class and I the choice between four different buildings to do our perspectives with. I chose to do the Christian Science Church here in Boston, and I was very excited.
Here are the three perspectives I chose to do of it:

This is a one point perspective

 Three point perspective (or sortof one)                              Two point perspective

This project was fun because it took me back to when I first realized I wanted to be an architect and the first project I did that year in high school was perspective!!

Boston Research Project

This is the biggest project i think I have ever done in my life!!!!!
The second to last project is all about a certain building in Boston that each of us has to research, study and draw.
Thankfully, I got the Boston Public Library at Copley Plaza because it is an easy research subject and I already have books on it.
LETS START RESEARCHING!!!!!

Object Revisited

This next project is all about the can opener, again. But the difference with this project is that we are actually looking at the object itself. We were looking at the can opener for all those projects before, but they were translated in an abstract fashion. This project is all about the can opener and how it actually looks. For this project, we were asked to draw the object in a orthographical, oblique drawing, but also have two different section cuts through the object to show the function of it.

This project was very difficult, not only because of the way that we had to draw it, but because of the fact that we had to section cut something that we had no idea what was really going on in side the object, but I feel I did pretty well on the final drawings.