Design Journal I

Bounded Essentials

Boundary is set up to highlight the common essentials of a home: the roof, windows, and doors. Not to be repetitive, I only accentuated them once each.

Framed Verticals and Horizontals

Crossed Windows

Intersected Turns

Merging Crosses

Parallel Connections

Each horizontal and vertical line are extended in framing the common essentials. The darkest lines are the outermost lines framed and the lightest are the innermost lines of each window, roof, and door.






Diagonals that are highlighted are and extended to the outermost boundary. The parts of the lines that are within the boundaries of the first layer are darkened while those outside are lighter to demonstrate difference.







Each line is made up of three intersections and perpendicular to each line is another line.











Extracting parallel frames , wherever they intersect, they merge.











Similar to the previous step, a few parallel lines are extracted and intersected to create parallelograms. On the free edge of these parallelograms, lines are drawn to connect with the nearest free edge in a similar direction.







From this set of synthetic drawings, I noted that even though I used a simple rule of extracting lines and making the next line turn for "Intersected Turns", it created a more complex pattern than a more simple looking but with a more complex ruling "Merging Crosses" and "Parallel Connections"; which is quite interesting. It demonstrates that complex products are not always of complex thinking, and that the simplest things may have more than that meets the eye. Moreover, in "Intersected Turns", there is a noticeably dense area on the bottom left corner. This drawing has much more information than that of the other two. It shows which part of the townhouses has more details and which part has little details.