Parti and poché - third week

The parti drawing for week three was created with multilayered ink and pen. The ghostly boundary represents the enclosure and its presence is not as immediate as the bolder marks conveying the experience of the internal rooms. The hatched areas demonstrate back-of-house activity and the white spaces refer to the public spaces of the house. The hatched areas are strongly bordered because they are parts of the house that are firmly concealed from visitors.


The poché drawing is another multilayered ink and pen diagram. The sense of atmosphere, available light and enclosure are the focus of this drawing.

Parti and poché - second week

During the second week of study, I learnt that parti diagrams could convey other relationships than just the dominant spaces. Below is a parti diagram examining the geometry of a floor plan at Villa Muller. The main room is offset by a complex pattern of smaller rooms. The orthaganol geometry draws attention to the circulation corridors between spaces.

The following parti diagram is based on the sense of enclosure in the rooms. In general, the circulation between rooms is very fluid. The rooms that are isolated are set on a different floor plane and are inaccessible. Some of the rooms in Villa Muller are visually connected and this is evident in the enclosure diagram.


The below poché diagram was shaded with prismacolour pens and 7B pencil. I attempted to show the atmosphere in the rooms as cast by light and shadow. Unfortunately I used two light sources. I did not like the rough texture of the pencil in this diagram.

Parti and poché drawings - first attempt

For the first assignment, we were required to draw some parti and poché drawings. I understood parti to mean the key design ideas of the building in terms of major spaces. The first parti diagram featured the 3rd level main hall and corridor combination as the major spaces and the same key room dominated on the 4th level. In section, the parti diagram demonstrated the irregularity of room placement to be the dominant idea.

The following examples were my initial understanding of poché drawings. I was not sure how to show the atmosphere of the building except to outline the plan in hatched and inked methods, thinking that the watercolour effect or the emphasis on the corners of the building would provide atmosphere.