Primitives Mini Brief – ILA 1 : Shapes in Our Environment

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It was a very new experience actually being aware of my surroundings, and how it was made. And it’s insightful to see all the uses a single shape can have, and how it can be used for different purposes.

But it was also very interesting to see how where some shapes like circles, rectangles, or cubes came up a lot, some were really hard to come across. And at first I thought this was maybe due to the complexity of some of these shapes (pyramid, torus, etc.) that made them more difficult to use.

But maybe what would be interesting is going somewhere else in the world, and seeing if this balance is the same. Because though the complexity of shapes likely has an impact, is there maybe a cultural influence in the shapes that we tend to use?

7 comments

  1. thunyadi says:

    Great start Quentin! Very well presented and an exciting selection of photos. Your final presentation will be shown/looked at on screen, so you might want to think about changing to landscape format for future tasks.

    • s2065770 says:

      Definitely difficult. For me it was the torus and pyramid but also the hexagon. I guess it’s maybe due to them being more complex shapes, or maybe they’re just not shapes used in Western/ Scottish architecture and design as much.

  2. s2091834 says:

    I really like the layout of your work!
    And how you can find some of the objects in your house, I have not thought about that in my work.

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