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Guest lecture for Architecture 120 discussing architectural diagrams and diagrammatic methods.
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ARCHITECTURAL DIAGRAMS
WHAT IS A DIAGRAM?
- Explain major design idea
- Simplify design into major decisions/moves
- Provide a clear, easy to understand view of the project
LEARNING TO DIAGRAM...
- Practice, Practice, Practice! Work first in sketchbook...
- try:
- adding color
- adding cut out images
- different medium (pencil, charcoal, pastel, watercolor, etc.)
- try:
ARCHITECTURAL DIAGRAM EXAMPLES
DIAGRAMMATIC TECHNIQUES
- Create strong graphic contrast to accentuate a strong physical contrast
- Image From: www.milimet.net
- Giambattista Nolli’s Plan of Rome (1748)
DIAGRAMMATIC TECHNIQUES
- Focus on differences within the design framework, accent those with the diagram (this can be done is model as well as drawing)
- Image From: www.milimet.net
- Library Competition - Office of Metropolitan Architecture (Rem Koolhaas)
DIAGRAMMATIC TECHNIQUES
- Use arrows/flowlines/etc. to accentuate movement/ views/etc. through the drawing
- Image From: www.milimet.net
- Floating Roof House - Takaharu & Yui Tezuka
- Sendi Mediatheque - Toyo Ito
- Pantheon
STUDENT DIAGRAMS
DIAGRAMMATIC TECHNIQUES
- Use colors to accentuate/ draw out specific pieces of the design
- Image From: www.milimet.net
- Thermal Systems Diagram
- Diurnal Cycle Diagram
- Elevations with and without collage
- SFO Flight Patterns
- Human Movement Patterns, SFO
- Human Movement Patterns, SFO
- Interconnectivity Diagram
- Interconnectivity Diagram
- Structural Diagrams
- View Diagram
- Site Diagram
- Thought Diagram
MAKING A VISUAL SURVEY
PATHWAYS
- Major and Minor routes of circulation through a city (any space)
- Often documented with lines or arrows
- Cabspotting
DISTRICTS
- Districts are the component neighborhoods that make up the city
- Sometimes they are distinct, sometimes difficult to distinguish from neighboring districts
- Denoted by shade or color
EDGES
- Occur at the termination of the district
- When two districts form at an edge, they form a seam
- Often represented by stitch lines (zig-zag, etc.)
LANDMARKS
- Prominent visual features of a city
- Often seen from great distances
- Help people to orient themselves within the city
- Often denoted by triangles, the bigger = the larger the landmark
NODES
- Nodes are centers of activity
- Different from a landmark by amount of activity/movement
- Represented by dots, the larger the dot (or cluster of dots) the bigger the node
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