Unit 2: Summary

Hi, everyone! Today, I'm going to be writing a summary over Unit 2, and how I think scale relates to design.
So within this last unit, we discussed scale and how it relates to different buildings and objects around us. In the Road Trip assignment, we actually looked at some maps of Lexington alone and then Lexington in comparison to the rest of the country. When looking at something from a different perspective, you realize more differences that help you to better understand what you're looking at. Another example of this would be with the 1x1 to 8x8 mosaic drawings we were told to do. When working on a single piece, each of us were confused and didn't really know what we were trying to create. Then after we turned them in, we saw what they created when they got put up. So going from individually small images to larger images that go together made a huge difference in perspective.
When talking about scale, I honestly think it's based on perspective because size isn't everything. When this unit started, all I thought scale was about is how large or small something is in comparison to something else. However, the more we worked on it the more I realized that it's so much more than just size. Perspective is important to design because it trains your mind to see things in different ways to gain a better understanding of the object, building, or structure. Having perspective means that you can understand why the design of the object, space, or building is like that based on the size and angle of how you're viewing it.