I think, in business of architecture and design, drawing is essential to communicating an idea, be it something abstract or concrete. Drawing also allows you to communicate with yourself to solve a spacial or visual problem as well as aiding in the cognitive thought process.
In addition to communicating an idea, the end result can be beautiful to look at, provide insight to the inner machinations of a brain at work, or both.
Hand drawing is more intimate - but post your drawing, computer generated or otherwise, that best communicates an idea, shows how your brain works, or is just plain pretty...
This was a planning study I did to see what kind of profitability an apartment complex laid out in a palatial style had.
It came out that you could build unfinished units for about 190k a piece and sell them at around 360k a piece while maintaining a good profit. The idea came about when I started researching the architecture of palatial structures... that most expense of palaces was often in furniture and decoration but there was actually very little expense when it came to actual construction a facade work.
The structure breaks down into three periods unified by a similar architecture theme... with the buildings becoming "older" as you progressed to the back of the property. This is often the way most palaces are developed in this piecemeal fashion.
The other idea was to urbanize while suburbanizing. I think a good reason why people love suburban homes, other than this whole "freedom, saving, family" thing, is identity. This is where this idea came in, instead of a modern apartment complex, the structure is completely connected to identity. It's one "house" on one "lot" with one major "commons area."
But I wanted to have difference in there- private spaces, interior entries, exterior entries, balconies, gardens.
In either way, the lot is 550 feet wide by 880 feet deep and on average 6 to 7 stories high. It has over 330 units on 1.8 million square feet. Twenty-four garden plots (to lessen the overall tax burden on the property), one private "forest," one olympic sized pool, one thirty-two person hot tub, two tennis courts, nearly a half mile long "jogging" path and one community building.
I also thought that given the spaces, size of spaces and other considerations... that the complex could sell pool passes, rent out the area to weddings, host events and basically nickel and dime the community.
Final construction price? 190 million. Final retail price? 270 million.
AP love the collages... I do quite a bit myself to clear the head sometimes. Otherwise I draw and write every day.
I was one of two architects asked to present proposals for a church (in their heads they thought it should be a cathedral). I presented a very different scheme, but this was the one I had on the back burner - far more appropriate in scale, as well to the immediate climate (heavy winds direct from the sea). The idea was to build a seamless reinforced conc shell, with blue-green glass for the apertures. The front of the church faced the village, matching the gabled roof of the community, whilst the rear faced the sea with the transom in line with the horizon (lower part of the glass for sea, the upper for the heavens)
anyway. Oh there's another (couple) threads just like this one... including the official one
architechnophilia - I figured there might be threads requesting sketches as a show and tell. I was specifically looking for a discussion about how drawing aids in thinking, and is used as a tool for communication and problem solving. Posing your drawings was intended as a catalyst for discussion. Thanks for the links though. Going to try to upload....
<img src="http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/4010/sketch1p.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>
Yay... more out of touch architecture.
Pull up the image URL for bigger pictures.
Sorry for the weirdness of the front and back views... sketchup doesn't like that many polygons.
Church I did for archinect drawing contest I tried starting.
that looks interesting. don't bother resizing. just type a space and then width=400 after the image address (before the bracket slash img bracket). then someone can just right click to copy image location and open it in a new tab to see it big
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I think, in business of architecture and design, drawing is essential to communicating an idea, be it something abstract or concrete. Drawing also allows you to communicate with yourself to solve a spacial or visual problem as well as aiding in the cognitive thought process.
In addition to communicating an idea, the end result can be beautiful to look at, provide insight to the inner machinations of a brain at work, or both.
Hand drawing is more intimate - but post your drawing, computer generated or otherwise, that best communicates an idea, shows how your brain works, or is just plain pretty...
This was a planning study I did to see what kind of profitability an apartment complex laid out in a palatial style had.
It came out that you could build unfinished units for about 190k a piece and sell them at around 360k a piece while maintaining a good profit. The idea came about when I started researching the architecture of palatial structures... that most expense of palaces was often in furniture and decoration but there was actually very little expense when it came to actual construction a facade work.
The structure breaks down into three periods unified by a similar architecture theme... with the buildings becoming "older" as you progressed to the back of the property. This is often the way most palaces are developed in this piecemeal fashion.
The other idea was to urbanize while suburbanizing. I think a good reason why people love suburban homes, other than this whole "freedom, saving, family" thing, is identity. This is where this idea came in, instead of a modern apartment complex, the structure is completely connected to identity. It's one "house" on one "lot" with one major "commons area."
But I wanted to have difference in there- private spaces, interior entries, exterior entries, balconies, gardens.
In either way, the lot is 550 feet wide by 880 feet deep and on average 6 to 7 stories high. It has over 330 units on 1.8 million square feet. Twenty-four garden plots (to lessen the overall tax burden on the property), one private "forest," one olympic sized pool, one thirty-two person hot tub, two tennis courts, nearly a half mile long "jogging" path and one community building.
I also thought that given the spaces, size of spaces and other considerations... that the complex could sell pool passes, rent out the area to weddings, host events and basically nickel and dime the community.
Final construction price? 190 million. Final retail price? 270 million.
knowing that Palladio is rolling over in his grave?
Priceless.
im sorry.
i was just kidding.
couldnt help it
you know, juvenile and all that . . .
collage 1 (4" x 4" mixed media)
collage 2
collage 3
collage 4
collage composite (array, 16" x 16")
collage set @ flickr
I'm liking this thread and will be adding to it shortly!
ckl,
nice cat.
thank you, namhenderson
i wish this kick ass site plan was done by me...
AP love the collages... I do quite a bit myself to clear the head sometimes. Otherwise I draw and write every day.
I was one of two architects asked to present proposals for a church (in their heads they thought it should be a cathedral). I presented a very different scheme, but this was the one I had on the back burner - far more appropriate in scale, as well to the immediate climate (heavy winds direct from the sea). The idea was to build a seamless reinforced conc shell, with blue-green glass for the apertures. The front of the church faced the village, matching the gabled roof of the community, whilst the rear faced the sea with the transom in line with the horizon (lower part of the glass for sea, the upper for the heavens)
anyway. Oh there's another (couple) threads just like this one... including the official one
architechnophilia - I figured there might be threads requesting sketches as a show and tell. I was specifically looking for a discussion about how drawing aids in thinking, and is used as a tool for communication and problem solving. Posing your drawings was intended as a catalyst for discussion. Thanks for the links though. Going to try to upload....
<img src="http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/4010/sketch1p.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>
didn't work How about this :
Those two in the bottom right look like swaztikas! (sp?)
jk3hl-it is a pinwheel design for a hotel block.
Yay... more out of touch architecture.
Pull up the image URL for bigger pictures.
Sorry for the weirdness of the front and back views... sketchup doesn't like that many polygons.
Church I did for archinect drawing contest I tried starting.
this thread is amazing
this is my classmate *)
...one of the reasons why some of us are in architecture. i know it's not the money.
I did this one about 10-12 days ago in a drunken haze.
this was a page in my portfolio
ugh
that looks interesting. don't bother resizing. just type a space and then width=400 after the image address (before the bracket slash img bracket). then someone can just right click to copy image location and open it in a new tab to see it big
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