Interior Space Construction helped by Corner Tower

Space Corner helped by Corner Tower of Cubes

Construction of Interior Space based on partial setting

Key-words: diagonal method¸ enveloping cubic grid, follow surface linear web, extreme oblique lines, structural net, space corner, orthogonal pictures, Y shaped junction.

Relation between partial setting and huge imaginary interior space.

Task:

Interior view of a huge Hall with dimensions of  4 x 4 x 4 cubes.

The Hall ought to be built up theoretically from its exterior, starting with the attached fragment-setting. We imagine our symmetric hall as if enclosed by this repeating wall field. The rhythm of the fragment setting might be individually transformed in the followings.

Initially we should transform as we like the starting motive (pillars, openings) to get a usable elevation motive.

2011. Stone banister of  St Stephan equastran statue on the Gellert hill in Budapest. Example with low horizon - rythm of pillars and equal empty areas in-between.

Let’s work with halving and/or quartering lines only, considering future constructive work.

The biggest plane of the enveloping shape of the fragment set is the back plane of 4 x 4 small squares.

This patch corresponds to one of the lateral squares of the 64 cubes filling out the entity of the interior.

. 1. Fragment setting – volume and orthogonal views

Our method We consider the space as the interior of a large cube. Its building components shall be envelopped within quadratic grid as well.

5. Final stage of architectural transition – further details.

3- 4. Stages of individual design process. The fragmented cubic set is gradually transformed into architecture. Quadratic column turns into a pillar.The standing half prism represents a parapet. This same formation repeated over an imaginary opening is the one level high window field motiv ready.

	10. Ceiling seen from below.
		11. One Vanishing Point Perspective sketching. (more details of it see in B. Mehes’ booklet: Perspective Reconstruction through Orthogonal views)

Summary

In Architectural Freehand Drawing we often interpret SPACE as an increased cube’s interior outfitted all over with a quadratic grid. Most delicate detail of the Space Corner is the Y-shaped junction with its extreme oblique lines pointing toward remote vanishing points which happen to be often off paper’s area.

In case of perspective having two or more vanishing points, the structural grid of an increased cube’s interior might be prepared with the help of a virtual cubic tower put into the target corner. Turning out the negative corner we’ll get a positive corner which might be handled in perspective more easily. In course of this preparative work we are extending cubic tower’s quadratic grids to space corner’s neighboring planes.

At the beginning it is highly advisable to get acquainted with the relation between the whole interior space and its building components, through studying its orthogonal pictures as well.

By employing a follow-surface secondary grid built on the primary modular system we may easily express single building parts’ position related to the original space corner.