Tuesday involved further work on technical drawing. We focused on elevations which are a view of an interior space looking at one side of a space; they are drawn flat with no perspective. They coincide with plans as they help show the relationship between floor and wall treatments, fitted furniture, doorways, equipment and heights of the objects. It also helps demonstrate what is above the 1.5 metre cut off height. Shadows can help give a sense of 3D as the objects appear to be coming out of the paper. Some walls are not a flat plain, often they will curve around creating different depths. These would create an extended elevation where you flatten them out into one strip. We learnt these by looking at a series of stacked blocks and sketching their plan and elevation using the scale suggested. We annotated both so you are able to see which part has been focused on and the start and finish which is led from left to right.

Elevations of cubes

Plans and elevations of cubes

After this we moved on to drawing actual interior spaces. I chose a wall from the room I was in, did a quick sketch of it and using a tape measure, measured its different components. Using these dimensions and a scale of 1:25 I drew the elevation.

Elevation of a wall in the studio

Our self directed work was to create elevations of two walls. I chose two of the kitchen walls in my flat which follows on from my self directed work last week which was to draw a plan of my kitchen.

Elevation of my kitchen