Learning portfolio

Tergel Bayarsaikhan

Arch 20

Jerry Lum

Fall 2015

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Table of contents

Dog house

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Crazy cube arrays in space

Floor study

Pavilion with folded Canopy

Picasso inspired tower

Paper airplanes

Piazza del Campidoglio

Stair study and Follow me tool

Shape study

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Wall study #1

Dog house

Prospective view of Dog house which was

the first assignment in our class. It was a

great experience.

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During class we started practicing hand sketching. My first try was

not quite good, and Jerry recommended us to draw vertical and

horizontal straight lines, and also circles at home.

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Then I practiced

at home

connecting dots,

drawing vertical

and horizontal

lines, and also

practiced drawing

circles between

those lines.

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These are the steps that I went through to get the final design of

my dog house

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Strengths:

Learned how to work with Push and Pull tool to make the roof, window, and door which was pretty easy and fun

Window and door design

Coloring the house using paint Bucket tool

Using offset to create window frame, and really enjoyed doing frame to the window, looks really neat

Challenges and weaknesses:

I am not really comfortable with using Move tool. I learned that I should select whole thing first and then move the item. Otherwise the shape distorts.

It was a big challenge for me to add measurements, because I have no idea about feet and inches

Crazy cube arrays in space

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Perspective view within ArrayPerspective view

Plan view Plan view in perspectiveElevation view

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Strengths:

Successfully created cube, transformed into components, an replicated multiple times to create this complex arrays.

Zoomed into the array, turned my shadows on, and place several human figures for scale to create a dramatic shot

Learned how to duplicate boxes

Learned how to add components, and made a “story”

Successfully added shadow, and it turned more realistic

Used different camera view and leaned how to export 2D picture

Challenges:

I need to learn how to use graphic visualization techniques to pen draw something similar to what I produce in SketchUp

I had some struggle using Orbit tool

Floor Study

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Floor pattern researchIt was really fun and useful exercise. Usually it is hard to design

something directly, but when I start drawing them, I can explore

more ideas as I go further.

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Perspective view of floor studies

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Strengths:

Practiced a Move and Copy tool which I did not

get in previous class

Mastered in Push and Pull tool to create the roof

Used Tape to draw repetitive pattern of the floor

Used Bucket tool to color my floor

Weaknesses:

At first I did some mistake in my wall and copied

that wrong model all over, so my whole houses

looked weird

Had a hard time to take a good shot, because the

patterns were disappearing when use my rotate

tool

Had trouble to place Steve on the floor. His feet

was keep disappearing

Had a trouble to move my copied version by red

axis

Challenges:

Use Move and Copy tool

Move through right axis

Create new design

Take good shots

Opportunities:

Practice the Move and Copy tool more.

It seemed quite useful

Sketch the pattern on the paper to

discover new ideas

Follow Jerry faster

Stair study and Follow me

tool

In class we learned how to do stairs using

Line tool and Push Pull tool. Also

introduced with Follow me tool. I totally lost

from the beginning of the class, so I did

stairs at home

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Top view Elevated view

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Spiral stairs

I really wanted to create spiral stairs which is my

favorite. At first created a circle and divided into

pieces. I used Offset tool to separate the pieces, and

then shifted upwards

This is my favorite design of stairs. It has a great

shape, and also I love the way it is bizarre. There is

no ending or starting point.

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Perspective view of hexagon tube on the stairs

Follow me is a great tool, but still can not figure out how can I use in my design. I created hexagon

shaped tube, which is really hard to do by hand drawing.

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Strengths:

Learned how to do stairs

Doing fine with Push and Pull tool

Challenges:

Work fast

Use of Rotate, Follow me, Push Pull and

Move tools

Designing dramatic stairs

Use Follow me tool to create tube

Opportunities:

Learn how to create stairs from first

step

Explore more design ideas

Practice Rotate tool

Weaknesses:

Totally lost

Could not use move tool to copy stairs

Left behind everybody

Had problem with Rotate tool

Problem with axis

Confused with Grouping my models

Shape study

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Elevated view in parallel projection Top view in parallel projection

We learned how to create shapes, and mix those shapes and create brand new figures. It was really fun of

mixing shapes. I considered sustainability and colored my figures by vegetation and wood color.

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This one remind me Giza

Pyramid. I mixed cube and cone

This one is my favorite one. I

mixed semi-sphere, cube and

hexagon-based cone. This is

really dramatic and complex.

I created this figure

unintentionally, and I love it. The

mixture of hexagon-based cone,

cube and pyramid.

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Strengths:

Created bunch of different kinds of shapes

from one shape

Learned how to intersect faces

Mastered in Erase tool, and I found out that

button E on keyboard is the shortcut to Erase

tool

Use of Bucket tool

Designing different shapes

Mastered in follow me tool

Challenges:

Work fast

Use of Move, Tape and Scale tools

Intersect faces with model

Exploring new ideas

Opportunities:

Practice more the Move, Tape and

Scale tools

Learn more shortcuts on keyboard in

order to increase the speed

Weaknesses:

I was having trouble with moving shapes

into one another. It was really hard to

find the midpoint

I was working really slow

Practiced Scale tool a little, but did not

understand how to use it

Struggling with Tape tool. Sometimes I

could not see the indented lines

Wall study #1

In class we practice mixing shapes to create

different types of walls. We had trouble to

create floor, and Trinity taught us how to use

Push and Pull tool pressing on Ctrl button.

Class was slow today, but I am glad that I

have an idea how to create these beautiful

walls

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Strengths:

Collided shapes and created dramatic wall

Mastered intersecting faces and erasing

remedies

Learned how to use Push and Pull tool

differently

Challenges:

Push and pull tool

Exploring new ideas

Intersecting models

Opportunities:

Explore new ideas

Figure out how to create better floor

and ceiling

Weaknesses:

I was trying to make interesting window

on wall, but it did not work very well

It was hard to create new ideas

Wall study #2

This is second day of practicing different

types of wall. This time we mostly mused

Push Pull and Move tool

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These are the walls done by me. I used

Push and Pull tool mostly. I love Greek

and Roman architecture, and I love this

wall which looks like collided columns.

The next wall is really geometric which

looks like more modern

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At class I was totally inspired with

the Greek and Roman styled wall,

and at home I did roofless

Parthenon. It took a lot of time,

but I it was great practice and great

experience.

Parthenon

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Top view in parallel projection Front view in parallel projection

Piazza del Campidoglio

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Parallel projection from top view showing all the steps Zoomed in view from top the last two steps

Prospective view Elevation view

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Strengths:

Learned how simplicity can lead to complexity

Introduced with Rotate tool

Practiced how to rotate and copy at the same time

Learned how to do the stairs at the end of the

class

Understood how to use Follow me tool

Learned how to use Offset tool

Learned how to use Arch tool

Weaknesses:

Had trouble with stairs first

Good 2D shots

Challenges:

Work fast

Use of Rotate, Arch, Offset and Line tools

Practice stairs using Line and Follow me

tools

Create complex shapes

Opportunities:

Practice Follow me tool

To work fast I need to know the

shortcuts of the tools on the keyboard

Malevich inspired construction and Picasso

inspired tower

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In class we worked on Malevich inspired construction

which was quite fun, but in fact that I did not merge

the trees in one layer, I had trouble with using

software. It was keep crushing because of my acres of

forest, and I started my new tower at home

This is Picasso inspired tower that I did at home. It was

a lot of fun

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The left view of the tower in parallel projection The top view in parallel projection The front view in parallel projection

Perspective view with Steve Perspective view showing the dramatic shape of

the tower

The perspective view of waving walls

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Strengths:

Had a lot fun

Mastered in Line tool, and finally understood what

Jerry meant by “retracing”

Learned how to import photo

Used Bucket tool to color my buildings

Played with different shapes

More practice on Push and Pull tool

X-ray view is mind-blowing and useful

Weaknesses:

Had a hard time with putting my pieces in Group

It was really hard to choose ground color. It

turned really bright and really dark sometimes

Combination of colors

Learned how to make an animation, but was not

as good as expected

Had some trouble working with Two Point Arch

Challenges:

Using Line tool to retrace the shape

Using Arch tool to create waive

Color up the tower

Designing even more complicated shape

using Push and Pool tool

Grouping the shapes

Opportunities:

Work with X-ray tool to find out what

is behind and inside

Practice more the Arch tool

Be careful with colors. I will use water

bucket next time instead of coloring

them blue

Understand the “grouping”

Paper airplanes

It was really an interesting class. We learned

how to fold a paper airplane on Sketch Up. I

experienced different Styles and I really liked

the Genetic CAD style, which turns my

airplanes black with white stroke. This tuned

out to be really masculine, so I tried to make a

story. I displayed fog, and also imported JPG

images of war. This piece satisfies my a lot. Fog

blinds my airplanes into the background image,

and decreases the brightness.

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We started our class by folding

technique using Rotate tool. At first

it was quite confusing, but after

practicing few times, I understood

how to use this tool. Seems fun, but

looked like all of us were having a

bad day :D , and then we moved to

folding airplanes which was much

more interesting

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Perspective view from back

of the airplanes

Top view in parallel projection

Front view in parallel projection

Left view in parallel projection

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Strengths:

Experienced Rotate tool

Learned how to change the Style

Had fun a lot

Learned really fast

Taking good shots

Weaknesses:

Confused a little with rotation tool

Don’t know how to turn back to my first

version

Challenges:

Fold the paper

Experience different styles

Opportunities:

More experience on rotation tool

Try different styles

Pavilion with folded Canopy

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First we started folding the

roof

I made some the pallets transparent Perspective view from the back in order

to show the roof transparency

The front view of the pavilion The right view to show the beauty of

folded roofThe top view with beautiful floor pattern

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Experiment with different styles

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Strengths:

Mastered in Rotate tool

Did better animation

Put the previous parts in layer that I could let then

disappear without deleting them

Weaknesses:

Later realized that I should have add all the

columns in one layer, because it slowed down by

software

Trees were driving me crazy. They were placing

below the red axis, and looked awful in parallel

projection.

Challenges:

Folding roof

Create better animation

Discover the design of the pavilion

Opportunities:

Work with layers

Discover my own style without copying

directly from Jerry