Mike Drewe - Architecture

My New Blog Pages...

Check out my new blog pages:

Mak Arch - Designs & Works
For my designs and other work that I get up to at University...

Mak Arch - The City of Johannesburg
For photographs I have taken of The City of Johannesburg...

Enjoy... Leave comments...

New Design Project...Holiday Retreat

Our latest design Project. To design a holiday retreat just south of Knysna in the Cape in South Africa. It is to house 4 Adult and 4 teenagers for a holiday away from the busy bustle of Suburbia. The building is to be made entirely of timber and is to be situated right on the edge of a lake.

Here are some picture of the actual area around the lake.

Our site map that we were given. As well as the site model I made:

Schindler's Buck House Model

My scale model on Schindler's Buck House in Los Angeles. I could find very little information on the house so it as accurate I could make it from plans and photographs.

I'm Not Complaining!!

There has been a sudden increase in the amount of people visiting my blog!!! Over 600 people in the last 4 days to be exact!! Still havent worked out where they are coming from or why, but I'm not complaining!!! The more people that come the better!
I first thought that the counter was playing up, ( I mean 340 people in 2 months and then 650 people in 4 days!!) but I have checked this elsewhere and this number is accurate.

So... Welcome to my 2nd Year Architecture Blog...

Enjoy your stay here (stay as long as you like!!)
Feel free to leave comments, positive or negative, I welcome them!!!

Some Random Jo'burg Pictures

The old Johannesburg Sun and Towers Hotel with the Supreme Court in the foreground.

A View of Diagonal Street from the 50th floor of the Carlton Centre.

A little restuarant and Bar right in the heart of the centre.

The Telkom tower in Hillbrow taken from the top of the Carlton Centre

A view looking North, taken from the top of the Carlton Centre

My Concept Model of The Buck House

My concept model of The Buck House by R M Schindler.

Master Architect Seminar

My pin up of my Master Architect Seminar.

I researched R M Schindler and his Buck House.

My 3D Cubist Portrait

My sketchup editing of my cubist picture.

This is the sketchup lines that I placed over the original picture.

I then proceeded to extrude various shapes upwards in order of their importance to me.

I have placed the eyes as the highest object in my model since I feel it is the most important sense we have.

Then the nose, mouth, ears and hair were pulled up. As well as the grid structure on the left hand side. And the cutout of my face on the right.

This view also shows a similar view to the skyline of Johannesburg: A small collection of tall buildings surrounded by a very hilly landscape. I love living in Joburg so this is appropriate for me to place it in my portrait as I will always feel like I have a piece of the city in me.

My Cubist Distortion of My Picture

This is the process of distorting a photograph in Photoshop before I imported it into sketchup.

The intial photograph that was taken.

My Photoshopped version of myself. This composes of the main colour picture of myself, split into cubes and shadows added. As well as a cutout version on the right and a cubical representation of myself in the grid on the left.