ARCH 20: Architectural Graphics I Spring 2015 / Murat YAVUZ/ Instructors: Lum + Huang

Table of Contents

1- Doghouse 1.0

7- Malevich Inspiration

2- Doghouse 2.0 6- Circular Stairs

3.0

5- Circular Stairs 2.0

4- Circular Stairs 1.0

3- Doghouse 3.0

8- Origami Plane

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9- Origami Plane- Sandbox

15- Photo Match

10- Sandbox 1.0 14-Sandbox2.0(Lake)

13- Interiors

12- Free Home Design

11- Geometric Shapes

8- Origami Plane

Dog House 1.0 – Getting started, Learning the basics of SketchUp with a Simple doghouse design,

Perspective View

Front Elevation Rear Elevation

Roof Plan- Top View Right Elevation

Dog House 1.0: Isometric View

Perspective View

Reflections on Dog House 1.0

Strengths: •  First use of tools (rectangle, line, push/

pull, paint bucket) •  Creating the very first project and

achievement encourages. Weaknesses:

•  Trouble orbiting and panning around, need practice.

Discoveries: •  3-D warehouse: It has many models

such as children and dogs

Dog House 2.0 – Using new tools, creating Shapes and architectural forms and components.

Front Elevation

Rear Elevation Roof Plan- Top View

Left Elevation

Perspective Views

Reflections on Dog House 2.0

Strengths: •  Use of component and follow me.

•  Creating dome. �

Weaknesses: •  Building semi-sphere might seen a little bit complicated at first, creating it somewhere else and

moving to wherever it needs to be placed was an easier way as a beginner. �

•  Had trouble creating the stairs by using follow me, going back with ctrl+z and starting over was good practice.�Discoveries:

•  You can always hide things with right click on them if you don’t want to see them.

Dog House 3.0 – Using components effectively and using 3-D Warehouse for landscaping

Front View Rear View

Top View

Dog House 3.0: Isometric View

Perspective View

Reflections on Dog House 3.0����

Strengths: •  Building the whole project all over

helps memorizing the tools, steps etc. �

Weaknesses:�3-D warehouse shopping is easy

but placing the items can be complicated. To make sure trees

and dogs were not floating around, panning and orbiting is necessary.

 

Circular Stairs 1.0 – (Before lecture practice)� Making groups,copying and using Rotation

Front Rear

Top

Right Left

Views  and  Eleva-ons  

Circular Stairs 1.0:� �

Isometric View

Reflections on Circular Stairs 1.0

Strengths:� Practicing the project before

going to class helps during the class. It takes time to follow the steps by

the list. Lots of mistakes were made but the experience gained worth the

pain. �

Weaknesses: �When following the steps it is very

important to not to make small mistakes like putting wrong numbers

in changes the whole scale of the project.

Discoveries: The video I watched on YouTube to create the stairs gave me an

idea. Instead of creating the steps one by one and rotating them I just Move+copy the stairs(12x), select the stairs I want to keep

and delete the rest.

Circular Stairs 2.0– (In Class) Creating Stairs:�Copying, Components, Layers, Move, Scale, Rotate, Follow-Me,

Etintity info, 3-D Warehouse, Shadows, Exporting 2D Image

Front Elevation Rear Elevation

Top View

Right Elevation Left Elevation

Views  and  Eleva-ons  

Circular Stairs 2.0: Isometric View

Reflections on Circular Stairs 2.0

Successfully creating the stairs is not simple. By using components, rotation, and copy-move and following the steps given by instructor we were able to finish the project and it was much more

faster then the stairs I built before class. ��

Discoveries: •  Shadows surprisingly

changes the sights, also creates and realistic

view.

Dog House 3.0 – A new Circular Stairs project after the lecture

Front Elevation

Right Elevation

Roof Plan- Top View

Left Elevation

Rear Elevation

Bottom View

Views  and  Eleva-ons  

Circular Stairs 3.0: Isometric View

Reflections on Circular Stairs 3.0� �

Strengths reached after creating this project:�Effectively use of Follow me, components, paint buckle, creating

sphere(dome), using shadows and exporting 2-D Images.

Malevich Inspired Construction – Import a File, Use Template, Create a Dramatic Background, Explore form and Space inspired

from a 2-D Graphic.

Perspective view

Front view Top view

Views  and  Eleva-ons  

Perspective view

Reflections on Malevich inspired Construction

Strengths:�Importing image and building architectural forms out of an 2-D file. Using

colors effectively. Creating background and sky. Using offset tool effectively. �

Weaknesses: •  Moving the background 2D Image and placing it to give a natural look.�

�Discoveries: �

Using scale tool to enlarge the image enables exporting pictures that are more naturalistic.

Origami Plane – Folding with the Rotate

Left Elevation Bottom

Roof Plan- Top View Right Elevation

Views  and  Eleva-ons  

Origami Plane: Isometric View

Reflections on Origami Plane

Strengths:�It is a project to practice rotation tool.

Weaknesses: •  It takes exercises to know where to

place the compass of the Rotation Tool.

Discoveries: •  Compass doesn't’t necessarily

have to be placed on the item that needs to be rotated. You can

simply rotate a selected item by placing the compass anywhere

but it changes the location of the item.

Sandbox – Origami Airplanes Fleet �Creating 3-D Terrain and Organic Surfaces with Sandbox Tools

Views  and  Eleva-ons  

Reflections on Sandbox – Origami Planes Fleet Strengths:

•  Creating a natural looking landscape via Sand Box Tool. Importing images and using them as Background. �

Weaknesses:�

It seems impossible to give a natural look to corners where background images meet.

Discoveries: •  Creating the fleet of origami planes by copy-move and using erase tool to erase and

organize the fleet faster

Sandbox House – Creating Natural looking project by using 3D Warehouse and Sandbox- Creating paths on Sandbox ground.

Front Elevation Rear Elevation

Roof Plan- Top View Perspective View

Views  and  Eleva-ons  

Sandbox House Isometric View

Reflections on Sand Box House

Strengths: •  Using drape and smoove tool. Creating paths by drape. �

Weaknesses:

•  Using Scale to Reverse Sandbox Surface.

Discoveries: •  Edit > Edges>Unclick Edges gave a smooth surface and naturalistic views.

Geometric Shapes– Creating Geometric Shapes, Using Intersect Faces, Carving the Shapes

Front View Side Views

Rear View

Views  and  Eleva-ons  

Geometric Shapes: Isometric View

Reflections on Geometric Shapes

Strengths: Effectively use of Move-Copy and Intersect Faces Tool. �

�Weaknesses:

•  In some cases intersect faces creates inside faces. It is difficult to erase or hide them.

Discoveries: •  Holding Shift when moving focuses the movement and eases the move

step. �

Project Home – Building a house by creating Greek and Roman influenced architectural forms .

Front Elevation Rear Elevation

Roof Plan- Top View

Views  and  Eleva-ons  

Project Home: Isometric Views Reflections on Project Home

Strengths:

Creating a pair of windows, making group of them and copying them around the

building. Finding a way to fix things, by hiding or covering or

simply erasing them. �Weaknesses:

•  There are some parts of columns, balcony and

windows that can’t be closed.

Discoveries: Orbiting far back and deleting

objects such as guidelines from far back is easier and needs

less click.

Interior Studies– Exploring the experimental impact of light, shape of space, colors, textures, material choices, and furnishing selection &

placement.

� Strengths:�

–Shopping in 3D warehouse. I could find anything I find by simply

searching them.�–Managing to place the items from

3D warehouse.�–Changing the angle of the sun and giving different looks of shadows.�

Reflections and Views of Interior Studies:  

Ambiance:  Warm  

Reflections and Views of Interior Studies:  

�Weaknesses:�

Working in a small space and scaling the furniture from 3D ware house interconnected to

other objects in Space.

Ambiance:  Sophis,cated  

Reflections and Views of Interior Studies:  

�Discoveries:�

Using flip along tools to rotate objects. �

Exploding 3-D warehouse items, changing colors, deleting parts

that aren’t needed.

Ambiance:  Airy  

Reflections and Views of Interior Studies:  

�Discoveries:�

Importing 2D images and using them as wallpaper.

Ambiance:  Deligh6ul  

Perspective Views of the Interior Studies Rooms:  ��

As the interiors were focused in this project. It wasn’t necessary to play with outside of the rooms.

Project Sandbox-Lake– Using Sandbox effectively, creating lake, island and bridge.

Top elevation

Right Elevation

Left View from behind the rocks

Isometric view

Views  and  Eleva-ons  

Reflections on Project Sandbox-Lake

Strengths: •  Importing another project to a new SkechUp file. Using Sandbox effectively by

starting from scratch, using drape and smoove to create rocks and lake. Weaknesses:

•  Having difficulties of imagining, what to build on the island. After spending few hours on SketchUp, eyes get tired as the brain.

Discoveries: •  Mixing 2 different

SketchUp files by simply opening two windows at the same time, selecting, right

click >copy>paste it to another file.

Photo Match– Using Photo-Matching Process to create 3D digitl models from a photograph-Matching the model view to a photograph: Tadao Ando’s Rin’s

Gallery, Kobe,Japan

Front View

Right Elevation

Roof Plan- Top Elevation

Rear Elevation

Left Elevation

View with Photo

Views and Elevations

Photo Match Isometric View

Perspective View

Reflections on Photo Match

Strengths:

•  Using the photo to create as similar as possible. Making

appropriate guesses for creating similarity. �

� Weaknesses:

•  Creating the similarity on same Scale.

Discoveries: •  Holding shift while using

line tool to have more accurate and aligned lines.

Final Project- Cabin– Creating a Cabin inspired by Tom Kundig’s Sol Duc Cabin, using everything

learned until now on SketchUp.

Front View- Porch

Front Elevation of Cabin

Front-Side View

View from Balcony

Isometric view of Cabin

Rear Elevation of Cabin

Exterior Views and Elevations

Isometric View

Top Elevation of the project Left Elevation of Cabin

Isometric View

Exterior Views and Elevations

Interior Views and Vignettes

Interior Views and Plans

Loft Plan Main Floor Plan

Reflections on Final Project- Cabin

Strengths: •  Using every skill haven gotten until now. Creating sandbox, giving the

sandbox natural look by creating lake, creek, adding vegetation and hiding the edges. Experiences gives comfort using tools such as line,

rectangle, move-copy, push-pull, follow-me, etc. �

Weaknesses: •  Scaling the 3D Ware House items and placing them in a closed space.�

Discoveries:

•  Using different languages when searching items on 3-D warehouse increases the variety.

SLO 1: Create accurate drawings that communicate simple architectural design intentions. 4

Apply graphic conventions and standards appropriately 3

Relate each drawing within a set to each other to fully describe significant aspects of a design from the general to the specific

3

Demonstrate a correspondence between the design intentions to be communicated and the graphic representations produced to communicate them

2

Produce drawing that are readable and meaningful to others 3

SLO 2: Analyze the specific intentions communicated by analog and digital modes of graphic communication.

2

Identify the intended message(s) behind the graphic communication, whether produced by analog or digital means

2

Assess the integrity of the message(s) – identify the strengths and weaknesses of the represented intentions

3

Assess the efficacy of the related graphic representa-tion(s) 3

Propose enhancements to what is being graphically communicated 2

SketchUp SLO Progress Report

SLO 3: Apply use of scales, line quality, graphic conventions, and drawing systems and techniques. 2

Create clear and appropriately ordered hierarchies of visual information 3 Compose elements of a drawing in a clear organized manner that relates visual information on each drawing and between sets of related drawings 3

SLO 4: Demonstrate an understanding of the purposes of various architectural graphic techniques. 3 Identify the similarities and differences between: 3

Orthographic projections: plan, section, elevations, and details 2

Paraline drawing: isometric and oblique 2

Perspective drawing: 1-, 2- and 3-point 2

Compare and contrast the graphic systems describe directly above 2 Demonstrate an integrated use of analog and digital tools in the process of developing a set of design intentions 3