Settling in to Como and my project

With two weeks back in Como, I start to settle in.  Aren, Ryan, and I move into our apartment and we make it our own.  Among the other things that we were looking forward to in our settling in was having our own kitchen.  We could finally stop eating out for every meal, and cook for ourselves.  This both saves money, and lets us have fun cooking and eating all together.  Along with this, comes the fact that we can put our things in order and stop living out of a bag full of dirty clothes.  We could do laundry and finally relax to a degree that only comes with having somewhere to return to for a while.  While traveling, you learn to enjoy both the states of moving always and taking all your stuff with you all the time as well as settling into a place to call home for a while.  You must have both to appreciate the other or else you just see the negatives, not the positives.

 

Along with returning to Como comes the start of our studio project.  We examine our site which is a small strip of land outside of the old Roman square city that is now taken up by numerous railways.  They are going to take out the rails and put a station further up the line to give more space for public gathering.  Our program is a museum, hotel, stores, playground, a light rail for public transportation, and whatever we may think it needs.  The site is between the Casa del Fascio and the Duomo.  It is a tremendously important site for the growth of the city, and is great to think about.

 

This week all of us had to finish up our drawings along with starting our project.  We both finished up all the drawings we just set up on site, as well as started new ones from pictures, the latter of which I dislike.  Having drawn on site and truly taken in the buildings, drawing from pictures seems so backwards.  When standing there taking in a 3d shape and making it 2d on your page, you are truly piecing it together in your head and creating something new on the page.  When taking a 2d picture from a computer screen to draw, you only transfer lines from one thing to another.  It loses all the effect.  When doing all these drawings, I realized these things and have since then refused to draw from a picture, I now simply spend all my time on site drawing and taking in the space.