This project was the first stage of a journey in deconstructing and reimagining the Schindler House in Los Angeles. In this first project, we were tasked with creating a 3D digital model for a section of this building based only on one photograph. Therefore, it required translating from 2D to 3D without any other reference. Since a photograph only provides limited information about the building, we were allowed a creative license in imagining what was behind walls, doors, and dark sections.
These axonometric projections are drawings created from this digital model in which all 90° angles are at 45° from the vertical axis. Therefore, there is no perspective in these drawings, and all objects have a directly measurable size since they are not altered by how far they are from the “camera” since there is no such focal point. It’s as if one was looking at the object from an infinite distance with an infinite zoom. This creates somewhat of a confusing effect, since it’s often hard to tell apart directions and relationships in distance and altitude. By using this type of projection, what one knows becomes strange, since this type of drawing cannot exist in reality.
I chose this corner of the house because I believed it had interesting tectonics and relationships between spaces. It is the entrance to the Schinder Studios in the house with a “sleeping basket” above the entrance.
This project was part of an architectural design course in college.
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