Biomorphic Biotecture

1511&1503

Project Prompt #2

Project Description

Using yourself, friends, volunteer models, surrounding environments, and architecture, you will create a dramatic space that recombines parts of the human body with architectural elements to form a new, realistic, and believable environment.

This project will build on your explorations in perspective, color, and figure drawing. You will create new, imaginative structures and points of view by adjusting scale, lighting, and spatial relationships to realize vast, strange, and wondrous spaces that feel occupiable and convey a strong sense of place.

Perspective and point of view should be central to your design. Consider:

• Where do you want the viewer to be placed?
• What does this mean for your horizon line and vanishing points?
• How do you want the viewer to enter the space?
• Are they floating above, or standing within the scene?

Your choices in perspectival tools allow you to fully control how viewers experience the world you create.

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Project Stipulations

• Include at least three different architectural spaces and two body parts in your drawing.
• Work must be based on direct observation (your own photos or life drawings), not images found online.
• Do sketches! Take photos! Be in control of your source material.
• Clearly establish and mark your horizon line and vanishing points where relevant.
• Use value and color recession to strengthen the illusion of depth.
• Incorporate one or two mixed colors (not including black and white).
• Colors should be mixed and desaturated, not fully saturated throughout.
• Use vine and compressed charcoal (you may add materials to create warm or cool temperature).
• Drawings must be 24 x 36 inches.

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Timeline

• In-Class Work Days:
• Final Drawing Due:

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Evaluation Criteria

Your drawing will be assessed on the following:

• Concept & Creativity – Originality and cohesion of body–architecture integration
• Perspective & Point of View – Accuracy, control, and spatial depth
• Composition & Scale – Effective arrangement and relationship of forms
• Technical Skill – Mastery of materials, value, and mark-making
• Use of Color & Light – Depth, believability, and intentional mood
• Observation & Process – Evidence of preparatory sketches and photos
• Completion & Effort – Meeting project requirements and deadlines

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Grading Rubric:

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Key Reminders

• Include at least three architectural spaces and two body parts.
• Use direct observation (photos you took or real-life sketching).
• Clearly identify horizon line and vanishing points.
• Include value and color recession to create depth.
• Use vine and compressed charcoal, and at least one or two mixed colors.
• Work must be 24 x 36 inches and submitted by 11/18.

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Artist Examples

Henry Moore

Rebecca Horn

Ana Mendieta

Jacolby Satterwhite

Pipilotti Rist

Jean Arp (Hans Arp)

Georgia O’Keeffe

Ernesto Neto

Isamu Noguchi

Eva Hesse

Zaha Hadid

Lee Bontecou

Patricia Piccinini

Capuchin Crypt

Frank Gehry

Antoni Gaudí

Lucy McRae

https://www.ted.com/talks/lucy_mcrae_how_can_technology_transform_the_human_body