Before You Start:

If you have not yet completed your sketchbook activity where you redecorate your bedroom from the perspective of an animal or pet, take five minutes to finish that first.

Assignment:

In this assignment, you will be finding a location near your school or home where local wildlife can live and thrive, and create a drawing of that space in your sketchbook. There are four parts to this assignment.

1. Materials - Collect the materials you will need
2. Site Exploration - Choose a site from the Eliot and a site from your neighborhood
3. Sketch - Create a drawing of your site
4. Collage - Assemble your sketches together
5. Document - Take a photo of your work for Google Classroom

Part 1 - Materials

Spend some time gathering your tools. You will need:

• Sketchbook
• Loose paper
• Markers, pens, pencils, crayons
• A place to work
• Glue or tape
• Scissors

Part 2 - Choose a site

Using the three spaces in your neighborhood and three spaces around Eliot that you found for the City Walk assignment, choose your top two locations that you would like to work with.

Part 3 - Sketch

Create a sketch of your chosen sites. Try to use lighter lines and less detail for the surrounding of your specific area of interest, and add more detail around your site. For each site, create a top view and a front view.

Part 4 - Brainstorm

Using the drawings from your bedroom redesign, make a series of quick sketches that explore ways that you can re-design your two sites for each of the three animals from your group.

Upload the image files for your drawings to this assignment.

Part 4 - Collage

For this last step, we will be combining the drawings we did of our bedrooms with the drawings of the locations we picked out from google maps.

1. Take a photo of each of your drawings
2. Cut out the different parts of each drawing
3. Open to a new blank page
4. Carefully glue or tape the parts together to create a new drawing.

Bonus: If you have a printer or if you have pictures that your parents are okay with you cutting up, print out photos or screenshots of google maps to include in your collage!

Part 5 - Document

Take a photo of your final collage and turn it in on Google Classroom! If you have any other screenshots or photos of your previous drawings, submit those as well.

Now that we are getting into the representation side of our design, we can begin fleshing out the detail of our form and materials.

Add a slide to your group's slideshow and create a Moodboard for each design in your project. There will likely be some overlap between group members, so you can find images together for the pieces of your project that you have in common (site or animal)

Part 1: The Site

Find 3-5 images that describe the shapes, materials, textures, and patterns found in your site. This can include natural elements lilke the sky and surrounding plants. Include at least one human-made material and one shape/pattern that mimics what is found in your site.

Part 2: The Animal

Find 3-5 images that describe the ideal habitat for your animal. You should refer to your research and include clear images that zoom in on one particular texture, pattern, or natural material (like dirt, rock, stone, sky etc.). 

Part 3: Get Creative

Find 3-5 images that speak to your architectural vision. It could be an image of other types of architecture that inspires you, landscapes in different parts of the country that would accommodate your animal, a futuristic vision of Boston - or even just colors and shapes that you are interested in!

Part 4: Create your moodboard

Collage your images together to create an interesting composition. You can get fancy by removing the background of some of your images with https://www.remove.bg/ .

You can find examples of moodboards here: https://eliot.nuvustudio.com/posts/511659-mood-board-examples

Once you have finished your models (and have incorporated feedback), complete the following to create visual representations of your design in context:

1. Using a piece of paper, a dark-colored pen, and a pencil or grey/light colored marker, draw your design within your site. Use the dark marker to draw your design (what your local wildlife would interact with), and then use the grey marker or pencil to draw your site in the background. Your design should stand out against the background. You should draw from the perspective of someone looking straight at your design. This is called an "elevation drawing."

2. Next, draw your design as if something sliced it in half. What we would see is the outline of your design in dark pen, and the interior of your design in pencil or grey marker. This drawing should show what the inside of your design looks like and how your local wildlife would inhabit that space. This is called a "section drawing." Add labels to help explain your design.

Assignment:

Once you have finished your models (and have incorporated feedback), complete the following to create visual representations of your design in context.

Part 1

1. Using a piece of paper, a dark-colored pen, and a pencil or grey/light colored marker, draw your design within your site. 
2. Use the dark marker to draw your design (what your local wildlife would interact with), and then use the grey marker or pencil to draw your site in the background.
   • Your design should stand out against the background. 
   • You should draw from the perspective of someone looking straight at your design. 
   • This is called an "elevation drawing."

Part 2

Next, draw your design as if something sliced it in half. What we would see is the outline of your design in dark pen, and the interior of your design in pencil or grey marker. 

This drawing should show what the inside of your design looks like and how your local wildlife would inhabit that space. This is called a "section drawing." Add labels to help explain your design.

Prompt: Using the "street view" of google maps, work in groups to investigate possible urban spaces that are "unused" by humans (corners of parking lots, windowsills, in-between spaces). These will be possible sites (or locations) for your project.

In groups, find three spaces around Eliot. The Eliot Intermediate School's address is 173 Salem Street.

Deliverables: 

For each map you looked up, take a screenshot and put them into a google slides show. 

• Make sure to include the name of your chosen locations. 
• You can use arrows and circles to point to specific places in your screenshot.
• Each group member should choose a site to focus on. Draw an elevation or aerial view of your site, using darker lines for the building or area you are focusing on and lighter lines for the surrounding area. You can also use color to highlight the area you want to focus on.

Artist Michael Rakowitz’s ongoing ParaSITE project provides portable inflatable shelters for homeless people. ParaSITE shelters utilize the vents and ventilation systems from buildings for both temperature and warmth. When warm air leaves the building, it inflates the shelter’s double membrane, and simultaneously heats the interior. 

http://www.woostercollective.com/post/michael-rakowitzs-parasite