Figure 9 (above) - A Proposal of Housing Project with Retail and Offices - Flower is optional! Art work - Ink pen on paper with Copic markers.
I’ve been very interested lately in designing pleasant housing projects over retail. Not luxury condo buildings but more toward affordable housing. I think colors and light heartedness is so much required in architecture. In a way I’m tired of these serious “statements” or signature architecture. I put a flower to mean the love that can come out of this – perhaps?
Figure 10 - Strip Plaza Façade Modernization
Figure 11 – The First Iteration – Concept for a Community Centre – charcoal / pastels on rough paper.
The sketch aims to build a momentum for the concept. It also wanted to reflect on the relationship between the building mass.
Figure 12- Retail and Coffee Shop Development proposal. Ink on tracing paper with pastel and marker tones.
This sketch shows potential of development and vision of area.
Figure 13- Partial Façade Modernization to a Strip Plaza.
Similar to figure 12 but darker tones done in ink and markers on heavy water-color paper. This sketch is an illustration to the builder of the materials being suggested.
Figure 14 - Proposal for Addition of Mixed-use Housing and Office over Existing Retail. Ink on tracing paper with a mixture of markers, pencils, and pastel.
Concept aims at selling the idea of adding residential on top of existing retail and how the huge asphalted parking lot can turn into a green courtyard with benches and flower beds.
Figure 15 - Cineplex Movie Theatre Façade Proposal
This is the original old sketch of the building I did over 20 years ago. I retraced it over watercolor heavy paper with sienna ink and washed with orange and purple paints. This building had long been built. I wanted to show its primitive roots through this art-work.
Figure 16 - A Sketch of a Heritage Building. Ink on watercolor paper with dried up markers.
Ancient building in the Middle East.
Figure 17 - A Thumbnail Sketch for a Passive House Proposal.
This is a tiny 2x3” sketch I did on a piece of sketch pad paper. The front mass is treated as an engraved sculpture than a building with windows. Another solid mass of wood is sandwiched with another glazed sideway fully glazed curtain wall and another mass – the whole composition is inspired from contemporary sculpting.
Figure 18 - A Sketch of a Venitial Blind in Venice, Italy. Ball point pen on paper and markers and whiteout.
In this sketch I developed a special interest in markers (always with me wherever I go) to particularly express light values and vibration of the image. In this particular sketch expressing the age of the building was harder than I thought it would be.