Today, Annette grabbed her iPad and jumped into a design, taking notes, sketching and finally creating a schematic site plan. Mike shot measurements with a laser rangefinder, created a base plan and beamed it to Annette, who then went a bit wild. You might call it a gyre, a circling over of what she learned all those many years ago in ESAJ, her design school in Paris. During Annette’s time there, things were much more colorful, not so concerned with strict delineation and true color representation as now. Does it look a bit flourescent? Is it landscape architecture or pure art? Well, I’m not the one to ask, since I think it’s both!
The current landscape illustration practice has a computer generating everything from a 3D model. That will be fine later on, when the design is more set, major decisions made and questions move from arrangement of spaces and feature lists to choices of materials, form and style.
Although it looks more like a fauvist work of art, it does depict proposed changes to the site, in a very schematic and conceptual way that will likely never be confused with a tightly drawn, buildable site plan. But this is exactly its mission: stir up ideas, create discussion as to what exactly this place should be. How should it work? How should things relate to each other? These are things that start discussion and lead to ideas that can be implemented in a less… fantastic way.
It’s for the owner to get her own interpretation
Annette
All things considered, Annette added that indeed, this was her first “throw” at doing something like this on the iPad. The beginning of a journey.
She does like that she can go totally wild with color – as she said, maybe she had a bit too much fun with color before she traced out the design.
Who can say, when a conceptual plan could hang in a fine art museum next to something much less practical.
The drawing, after all, is not an end in itself. Something a piece of pure fine art would never admit!
The really great thing about this style of illustration is that it’s done by a human, using non-representational color to convey feeling and energy.
The really great thing about this style of illustration is that it’s done by a human, using non-representational color to convey feeling and energy.