Unity:Scale:Section:Boundaries:Vignette

Unity is when all the different parts come together to make the whole and create a sense of oneness.  The columns in Egypt were made of post and lintel construction.  The two or more vertical post holding up the horizontal frame works together to create the whole building structure.  In Greece two examples that use post and lintel support are Lion Gate and Treasury of Atreus, both located in Mycenae.

Scale is “How big a building is, relative to the size of the average human being, is said to be its scale”.  (Roth, 75)  In drafting class after building Pat’s furniture we drew the elevations to scale and placed an average human model to show the scale of our furniture.  

A section cut shows detail that might not always be visible from the elevation view.  In the History of Interior Design & Furniture book it shows a picture of a floor plan with section cut.  (Blakemore, 4) We also did section views in drafting for Pat’s furniture.  We also researched different types of walls and drew section views of the walls.

Boundaries are formed when walls or other vertical structures section off areas to create a specific location. In history the boundaries that earlier populations made were with the structures and temples.  In the History of Interior Design & Furniture book Blakemore talks about the tympanum and how the center of the cornices creates an open, sometimes filled, space.  (Blakemore, 29)  The wall models we designed and made this week were an example of boundaries.  We use those walls to incorporate our artifact into the space.

Vignettes are a good way of drawing to be able to focus in on one area and then lead the eye out to the unfinished area or object to make the viewer wonder what else is there to be discovered.  We have worked with doing a lot of vignettes this week in the drawing class.  It is fun for me to focus and detail one area and then let it fade out and let the color fade out but not because your on the end of the page but because you want it to be more interesting and leave the viewer thinking.

To summarize this week, unity, scale, section, boundaries, and vignettes tie together by seeing the whole picture.  The unity comes together by all the parts being one, and the section allows you to  see them broken down to see more details easily, and the scale allows you to change the size of the object, and the boundaries are what gives it the guidelines and vignettes are what you do to focus in on one area and let the rest fade out.