Prisoners of Piranesi Project
This project is undertaken as part of Design Fundamentals in the 1st year Industrial design course. It aims at getting students to practice freehand drawing techniques at a very intense level. A skill that is utilised throughout the industrial designers career.
The Piranesi Project employed the dramatic architectural perspective drawing techniques of Italian etcher, archaeologist, designer, theorist and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Combining arches, pedestals, columns, bridges, and sculptures in an imaginative reconstruction of classical architecture, students produced A1 etchings of their own imagined environment based on a sample of a Piranesi etching.
(Images, clockwise from top left: Shane Sproule, Jim Peng, Daniel Sutherland, Jinghao-Lin,Luke Huang, Gonzalo Portas)
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