Part II: Now that you’ve successfully found the building you’ve created a collage, the next step involves critical thinking on your part. In this session, we will be examining how vector lines and simple geometry can play a significant role in your composition. Lines help illustrate an image or detail drawing as a visual representation. Geometry is just about everywhere and thing we see, touch, and feel. Lines help evolve a system whole into a complex or simple series of vectors that emerge into a geometric shape. For the sake of the assignment, we will focus on the triangle, square, rectangle, and rhombus. 1. You will begin to analyze your collage by critically extracting certain qualities of your project through varied visual systems. These systems may include material, shadows, details, and building profiles. Note how the building is composed and how the linear system through a perspective image will begin to create a new dialogue in your collage.

2. Open AutoCAD Architecture (PC) or AutoCAD for MAC.

3. Import your collage (jpg) into AutoCAD at 11x17. 4. Organize your layers into categorical systems (primary, secondary, tertiary, etc.). 5. Make sure that all layers are labeled correctly and that the lines/geometries used are on their respective layer by color. 6. You will analyze your collage and extract geometrical relationships based off of abstract visualizations or architectural references/elements. 7. When using the lines and geometry, be selective where you place these elements. The output result should look similar to your collage until the next step. 8. Your collage composition will begin to create a new dialogue about the building. How you position the images will direct your next move when placing the lines/geometry on the canvas. Notice the density of some part and the sparse results of lines in other areas. Take these lines/geometries and begin to extrude them in a slight yet delicate manner. Where lines we once bounded by their image can now emerge beyond their parameter. Geometries should remain in their position to keep a balance of the two in order. 9. Save the CAD file as 004_FirstNameInitialLastName_VectorAbstract.dwg

EXPORT TO ILLUSTRATOR 10. Go to the tab at the bottom of the interface and set up your print paper space to 11x17 with a 1:1 scale ratio. Set your printer to Adobe PDF (or another printer PDF device). 11. Scale/move your drawing into the respective window as demonstrated in class and save the file (Ctrl/Cmd + S). 12. Then print to PDF (Ctrl/Cmd + P). Save the PDF to a designated location and prepare to open that PDF file in Illustrator. 13. Go to your new PDF file and open into Illustrator. 14. If you look in your layer palette, all layers will be merged or separated. If they are separated then your job just got easier. If not, then you have to create multiple layers with respect to your CAD file or color value you assigned. You will select one line (color) in the PDF and go to Select > Same > Stroke Color. This will select all lines with that same color. You will then arrange those lines to the appropriate layer and lock that layer. Do this procedure until all lines/geometry are on their respective layers.

15. Then begin to think about what colors (1-3) you want to use for the overall composition. Begin to go through each layer and define your lines by 3 different line weights. Select geometry (closed poly-lines) and fill them in with a desired color. Each layer should have different line weights, color (gradient of that color or a different color...NO RAINBOWS!).

16. Once you are done, begin to take certain lines and extend them and give them a definitive line weight. Add additional lines if needed to reinforce a connection of the overall composition. Be critical with every move your make.

17. Label your file with Name, sp 2012 / arch 1353_(your section number), and then your instructor's name.

18. Save file as 004_FirstNameInitialLastName_VectorAbstract.ai

19. Save file as 004_FirstNameInitialLastName_VectorAbstract.pdf

20. Print and pin up before the start of class.