analysis about the painting

The painting that I chose is the Office in a small city,1953 by Edward Hopper. The painting contains a office space which gives the sense of isolated and lonely as well. The solitary office worker in this scene is isolated both physically and emotionally. In addition, the office itself is also isolated by elevating in the air. The isolating environment can also be seen by the man's daydreaming and the man's detachment from his unseen coworkers. Besides that, the man is framed by the office windows and according to The Metropolitan Museum of Art's website, it is said that 'his head is profiled against another window and the wall of the building beyond, in a manner that suggests his containment of within his environment' In addition, there's also a contrast between the stark, utilitarian upper story and the decorative, false front at the lower right. Also, the postwar culture of American business is evident in the mass-produced furniture and the impersonal atmosphere of the office itself.

My understanding:
The person in the office is separated because of the height of his office building. He can either see the people when he goes down or he can feel them when he's in his office.

My narrative:
A city house makes a writer to be separated because of physical limitations which performs in the way that he can either see the people in distance or feel the surroundings.

Final Model

Working process 6

For Enclosure

I did the plan by analysing the sun path around the building

Working process 5

Circulation
In the plan, I drew the circulation by analysing the most activity area
Eileen Gray likes to play with the openings when she design a building. The similarity can be seen from the two buildings from her selected this time. She likes to design a room with many entry and exits. For example, the building i am doing has four entry. And she also created lots of options when walking into the building.

So I drew the circulation to show the options that mostly made by the guesses
(That's why I did not draw the line in Eileen Gary's private bedroom)

For the section, I did vertical internal circulation
She created several level changes within the building (four one-step height difference are designed within the building) and also the stairs connect exterior and interior, and the storage room hiding below the main level.

Working process 4

Structure drawings are done by analysing the grid
Eileen Gray tried to hide her load-bearing columns in the walls so that the columns become invisible. She finally cut down the number of visible columns into two.

I drew the walls in dot lines, indicated the invisible columns in dot lines (square shape)
and the two visible columns in black (round shape) to show the difference

Working process 3

Eileen Gray is somehow influenced by the Le Cobusier, she set the grids when she design the buildings. So I tried to figure out the proportion that she hide in her design.

Geometry drawings indicate the proportion that I found hiding behind her design
In the plan, the black lines illustrated the building divided by functions while the red lines are the proportion that I found.

Especially in the section, the proportion that I found is quite obviously.
The red lines indicate the proportion
The largest rectangular is three times as large as the smallest one
while the middle one is twice as large as the smallest one

working process 2

views can be analysed by understanding the openings. for example, the way people can physically walk through or just look through openings or the view is blocked by some particular elements, all of these can help understanding the building.

Program drawings were done by analysing the building openings.

working process 1

The building is built by Eileen Gray for herself. she bought three small areas which contain three water tanks. She was sort of designing a building on the existing building. She changed two of water tanks into one base room and one guess room. Because the building is for herself to live, she designed the space based on her own habit and create some distinctive characteristics such as the use of the site, build-in furniture and also light control.

Furniture and light control can be seen in the Proche drawings
The Proche drawings indicated the final effect provided by the building.