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Which SOFTWARE first-year urban studies project (plans, sections)?

akch1022

Hello all,

I have a project for an Urban studies class that involves analyzing public and private spatial relationships around and within a chosen place/building/sequence of spaces. In order to do this, I'll need to select and craft chosen sections and plans that highlight and explicate the relationships I am interested in.

This is the sort of document I'm going for:

http://ad009cdnb.archdaily.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/51c8c95eb3fc4bf9e4000172_karmeliterhof-love-architecture-and-urbanism_section.png

Source: http://ad009cdnb.archdaily.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/51c8c95eb3fc4bf9e4000172_karmeliterhof-love-architecture-and-urbanism_section.png

https://jontyhallettdigitalarch.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/site-analysis1.jpg

Source: https://jontyhallettdigitalarch.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/site-analysis1.jpg

 

So it's pretty simple and straightforward. However, having no experience with architecture software, I don't know the best approach to produce this: Sketchup? AutoCAD? Revit? Rhino?

Could you give me advice, oh wise ones?

Thank you all in advance.

 

PS: I have experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, and mechanical modeling software (Catia, Topsolid).

 
Mar 31, 15 4:52 pm
Non Sequitur

The section is probably just plotted out of autoCAD, the site plan looks like it might have been taken through illustrator.

Mar 31, 15 4:58 pm  · 
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PENCIL... PAPER .... PEN, Brush... paint. and markers and some templates and french curves and the like.

Just being a smart ass.. carry on.

Mar 31, 15 5:57 pm  · 
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Non Sequitur
I love a nice French curve.
Mar 31, 15 7:32 pm  · 
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Mr Almost Architect

I usually go with Revit+Illustrator. What I do is export the plan/sections out of revit as DWG 2004 and fix whatever needs to be fixed in Illustrator. You can do all that within revit, but for presentation purposes I think a combination of both is a good option. Others may disagree.

Mar 31, 15 7:44 pm  · 
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akch1022

Thank you for your responses.

I do agree about the pencil-paper-pen comment, at least in theory; the thing is, all the best-received projects in the past years have been treated digitally. Now, that could very well be because the sampling pool of people actually turning in manual works is so small, or because the error margin in a hand-drawn analysis is (debatably) larger than in a computed version... in any case, I'm going with "the flow" on this one!

Apr 1, 15 5:04 am  · 
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Sketch Up is awesome and cheap, they also have a good interface with CAD and Google earth, I think you will find it simple to use but not dummed down too much, if you need this in a month or two I would go with Sketch Up, also lots of free online tutorials and other resources to help get you around any problems.

Also has good sun shadow study tools

Over and OUT

Peter N

Apr 1, 15 9:57 am  · 
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akch1022

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your reply.

So you think Revit is kind of big guns to handle in such a short time? I was wondering that myself. I started fiddling around in Revit, and it seems more user-friendly than I imagined, but there are so many options -- just that many more things that can go wrong in my inexperienced hands, I fear.

I would like to get experience in Revit, but I don't want to foolishly jeopardize my project. It sounds like Sketchup might be a better fit for the gig.

Thanks again,

AK

Apr 1, 15 11:11 am  · 
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verticalgaze

You can just do sections in Illustrator. As long as the basic elements are there, it shouldn't be an issue presentation-wise. Given your time constraints, go with what you know and work with that instead of fiddling with something new. 

Apr 1, 15 11:48 am  · 
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