ORDINARY BUILDING JAPAN

While walking thru a rural Japanese village, this Ordinary Building Japan, or more accurately this residence, caught my eye.  As it was on a corner lot, I was able to take two photos from two different angles.

True to the Transparent Drawing Photography Method, I simply reacted.  That is to say, something caught my eye.  I did not pause to stop and try to rationalize why this piece looked interesting.  It just somehow, to me, was.  And so I lifted the camera, set in full auto mode, snapped one photo, walked to the other side, snapped the other photo, and then continued down the lane to see what else might be of equal or likely greater interest.

As I did the drawing above over two weeks after I took the photos, it becomes clear that the contributing interesting features include:
-interplay of a gable and a shed roof forms
-roof eave overhangs
-the wall recess at the back corner
-the smoothness of the metal clad shed contrasted with the rough articulation of the gable
-roof structural expression
-translucent shed roof
That’s a lot of interest from an Ordinary Building.

Time expended during the trip to record this:  60 seconds.  Time expended just now as I drew this piece from the photos:  90 minutes.  Amount of knowledge garnered from this time expenditure:  huge.

While the drawing at the top is essentially projected from the same viewpoint as the top photo (a discouraged practice in these pages), I also did a quicker version, shown below, just to be sure that I had internalized the design.  This could serve as a Ready To Build design for a residence just as it is.