"Reading the Italian Landscape"

I thought its about time I showed some of the work that we have been doing this semester.  Haven't done too much the last couple of days beside hang out in the studio.  Its crunch time.  Whether in Baton Rouge or Rome, review week is the same.  Work, work, work.

Here are a couple images of some of the projects I have done in my reading the landscape class.  It is essentially a drawing/representation class.

Project 1:
Our first project is our sketchbook.  I haven't gotten any of it scanned yet.  I'll get my pages scanned and post them eventually for all to see.

Project 2:
Our second project was looking at a small piazza in front of a church close to our studio.  It was basically up to us to represent how the space was used.  I chose to focus on circulation and how the volumes of space change as people make the circular route from Piazza Navona to the site (Santa Maria Della Pace) and back.  I represented this idea through both plan and section.  Click the image to better see the details.

Project 3:
The third project was a stop motion animation project dealing with the relationship between market vendors and pedestrians in Campo Dei Fiori.  I did this project with a partner.  Here's the video we made.

Campo dei Fiori Stop Motion from Kyle Jacobson on Vimeo.

After the video, the second half of the project was to take another groups video and make a reverse storyboard diagram of what we thought were the key elements in it.

Project 4:

The fourth and final project was a rendered site study of the Pantheon.  I did a light/shade study of the front porch of the Pantheon.  I did it entirely by hand.  I haven't scanned it yet either.  When I do I will post it.