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How to draw elevations

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Architectural Rendering Series:  Spanish Style Elevation Time Lapse Drawing

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Designing and building a project is a challenge in itself. However, once the project is complete there are also challenges in expressing the project so that it can be understood by a new audience. This is especially true in digital media, where online readers don't necessarily spend the same time reading an article as in print media. Drawings and all new forms of visual representation - such as animated Gifs - play an important role in the project's understanding.

At ArchDaily we push ourselves as editors to look for the best drawings from the architects that work with us. We are constantly looking to get the best out of the projects we receive to share with the world and deliver knowledge and inspiration to millions of people. The drawings we have chosen are not only visually entertaining but they serve as a way of educating and learning fundamental architectural representations.

Regardless if they are digital or hand-drawn, all the architectural drawings we have selected this year have a sensitive expression, whether it be artistic, technical or conceptual, and they all aim to express and explain the project using simplicity, detail, textures, 3D and color as main tools.

This year we want to highlight a selection of 90 drawings arranged under eight categories: Architectural Drawings, Axonometrics, Context, Diagrams, Sketches, Animated Gifs, Details and Other Techniques.

Architectural Drawings

Axonometric and Isometric

Context Drawings

Diagrams

Sketches

Animated Gifs

Details

Other Techniques

The Best Architecture Drawings of 2015

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90 Designing and building a project is a challenge in itself. However, once the project is complete there are also challenges in expressing the project so that it can be understood by a new audience. This is especially true in digital media, where online readers don't necessarily spend the same time reading an article as in print media.

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Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/user/circlelinemedia Playlist How to Draw a City in Perspective: http://bit.ly/1FxOiCO Learn How to Draw a City in a really easy way in detail, for beginners! We start with some simple shapes and I show you step by step how to draw a complex drawing of a city in 3D.

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TUTORIAL | HOW TO DRAW A BASIC HOUSE (2-POINT PERSPECTIVE)

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Check out my Instagram! ➢ http://bit.ly/2b510QP A basic tutorial on how to draw a basic house ;) After so long, Ive tried to make a simple video on how to manage two point perspective (3D) when drawing a house. Hope you guys like it! Click Here To Join the Art Club!

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Basic intro to isometric drawing

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What is Isometric Sketching? | Design Squad

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What is isometric sketching? Watch as Deysi explains how you can sketch in this way.

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MPavilion on Oma site. For students to explore prior to site visit

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MPavilion 2017 is a public venue with an intimate scale. Located in the Queen Victoria Gardens in the center of Melbourne's Southbank Arts Precinct, the pavilion intends to draw the community in and act as a cultural laboratory. OMA has designed a temporary structure that, along with providing space for performances, entertainment and events, can also perform itself.

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Instructions for how to draw using two-point perspective

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Introduction: How to Make a Two-Point Perspective Drawing

When we draw, we are drawing on a two-dimensional surface. Sometimes, we like to add some realism to our drawings--one way to achieve that is to create an illusion of a three-dimensional space. After finishing this tutorial, you will learn how to draw in a two-point perspective which will create the illusion of a 3D space. Sometimes referred as Angular Perspective, is used when drawing rectangular shapes being viewed diagonally, or turned at an angle.

You will need:
Paper,
a ruler,
a pencil,
and your imagination!

Before we start, I must say, it will be helpful if you learned the Elements of Design first, such as knowledge on creating lines, shapes, values, textures, colors, and space. Knowing these principles will make this tutorial much easier. Thank you and good luck!

Step 1: Vocabulary

This is the part that all artists dislike (including myself at first), which is the jargon that goes with it. Don't worry, I'll only be teaching you four very important terms that I reference throughout the tutorial. Afterwards, I promise we can start drawing.

The first term is called the Station Point (S.P). This is the view or the fixed position of the eye of the observer.

Another important term is Horizon Line (H.L) or Eye Level (E.L) (it's used interchangeably). This is an imaginary line that goes horizontal through your drawing.

Vanishing Point (V.P) is the point where receding parallel lines appear to meet.

Lastly, Picture Frame (P.F) is the boundaries of your drawing.

Make sure to remember the abbreviations because I refer back to them in the pictures.

Step 2: Constructing Basic Boxes

When starting two-point perspective drawings it's nice to start with something simple such as boxes. This may seem intimidating but it's actually quite simple.

Step 3: Basic Boxes 2

Draw a straight horizontal line across your paper, which will be your eye level.

Place two circles on both ends, these will be your vanishing points (V.P); you can place them anywhere on the line.

Start by drawing two parallel lines. You can place these lines anywhere on your paper, just make sure there in between the vanishing points. Also, it will be helpful to make these vary in lengths, such as make one higher than the other.

Step 6: Basic Boxes 5

Draw another verticle line at the end of the lines you just drew. You should be left with two parallelograms attached together.

Now, notice in the second picture that I completed one box on the left side. But the other two in red, still doesn't look right. The two red boxes need need more lines to complete the box. This is due to foreshortening.

Boxes below or above the horizon line, you will be able to see the bottom side or the top side of the box. Since the other box (the one not outlined in red) is on the horizon line, you won't be able to see neither the bottom or top side of the box.

Step 7: Basic Boxes 6

Place the ruler on the right vanishing point and the vertical line and draw a straight line.

Step 8: Basic Boxes 7

Finish the boxes by placing your ruler on the left vanishing point and the vertical line. This line should connect the line you drew in the last step, which should complete the box.

Step 9: Moving the Vanishing Points

Until now, the vanishing points have been in the same place. I want to show what happens when you move the vanishing points to different locations on the horizon line, and how that effects the shape and direction of the cube. Importantly, sometimes the vanishing points are not in the picture frame--which is O.K.

Draw a picture frame on your paper, which is essentially a rectangle.

Draw a straight line that represents your horizon line.

Place one vanishing point on the horizon line.

Below the horizon line, draw a square.

Connect the lines to the vanishing point to make a cube.

Step 12: Finding the Grid

You can see these principles actually relate to observation, look at the photographic image of my hometown of West Liberty, IA. Sometimes it's hard to tell that in a real life example of a two-point perspective image, lines will converge to two vanishing points.

So I took it upon myself to show you in a video, that they really do converge to a point. I've traced the edges back to their vanishing points from this perspective, and I showed how the parallel lines meet. After finding these vanishing points, you can find the eye level line, by drawing a straight line through each point.

You can try by using tracing paper over an image (make sure it's a two-point perspective image), and tracing the parallel lines until they meet each other. This is a helpful exercise to help you see that this applies to real life scenarios.

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How to Make a Two-Point Perspective Drawing

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When we draw, we are drawing on a two-dimensional surface. Sometimes, we like to add some realism to our drawings--one way to achieve that is to create an illusion of a three-dimensional space. After finishing this tutorial, you will learn how to draw in a two-point perspective which will create the illusion of a 3D space.

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Comprehensive collection of pavilion architecture

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Pavillion architecture and design | ArchDaily

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See more than 337 works of architecture related to Pavillion design

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Assemble Papers. Good resource for students to look through begin considering themselves as architect. Interesting articles on contemporary architecture. Melbourne publication.

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Intro video

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MPavilion 2017 design by OMA / Rem Koolhaas & David Gianotten

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MPavilion is an event hub, a meeting place, a temporary landmark, a spontaneous detour and a starting point. The fourth MPavilion, arriving in spring 2017, will be designed by Netherlands-based architects Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of OMA. Initiated by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation with support from City of Melbourne and the Victorian State Government.

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TUTORIAL | HOW TO DRAW A BASIC HOUSE (2-POINT PERSPECTIVE)

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TUTORIAL | HOW TO DRAW A BASIC HOUSE (2-POINT PERSPECTIVE)

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TUTORIAL | HOW TO DRAW A BASIC HOUSE (2-POINT PERSPECTIVE)

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TUTORIAL | HOW TO DRAW A BASIC HOUSE (2-POINT PERSPECTIVE)

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MPavilion website. Can browse past pavilions too

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MPavilion 2017 is designed by Netherlands-based architects Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of OMA.

Taking its cues from the ancient amphitheatre, MPavilion 2017 blurs the lines between inside and outside, in a skilful yet empathetic manipulation of the surrounding landscape in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens. OMA's MPavilion seeks not only to employ the qualities of the amphitheatre, but to build on them, bringing to life a flexible space that can function as both stage and playground.

Comprising a circular wooden amphitheatre with a rotatable component, MPavilion allows interaction from all angles - the pavilion opens up to the backdrop of the Melbourne skyline. With an exterior clad in bright and saturated local flora, the structure integrates with the landscape, contrasting with the excavated amphitheatre inside. Overhead, an aluminium cladded steel grid supports a translucent roof to shield visitors from the elements while still allowing sunlight to permeate.

Architects' Statement

"MPavilion 2017 is a public venue on an intimate scale. Located in the Queen Victoria Gardens in the centre of Melbourne's Southbank Arts Precinct, MPavilion intends to draw the community in and act as a cultural laboratory. OMA has designed a temporary structure that, along with providing space for performances, entertainment and events, can also perform itself. MPavilion's ground plan is shaped by two grandstands - one fixed, the other movable. Together they determine the setup of the performance space. The larger static grandstand is excavated from the surrounding landscape and embedded in twelve different species of indigenous plants, giving a sense of the Australian setting. The smaller grandstand can rotate, allowing it to shift functions from seating to stage, blurring the distinction between performer and audience. As one complete structure, the sum of its parts, the pavilion becomes a modern-day amphitheatre, one that mixes the spectator and the spectacle.

The main infrastructure of the pavilion, adorned with lighting and hanging points, is within the floating roof, a two-metre-high mechanical grid structure made of aluminium-clad steel. The mechanical functions of the canopy can be activated to suit the type of event taking place; it is an open-air venue for performances, entertainment and sports. Existing of both static and dynamic elements, the pavilion allows for many configurations and can generate unexpected programming, echoing the ideals of the typology of the amphitheatre. With the city as a backdrop, the pavilion provokes discussion on Melbourne, its development and its surroundings."

About OMA / Rem Koolhaas & David Gianotten

OMA is an international practice operating within the traditional boundaries of architecture and urbanism. Led by nine partners, including MPavilion 2017 architects Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten - plus Ellen van Loon, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, Chris van Duijn, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Jason Long - OMA maintains offices across the world in in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, Doha, Dubai and Perth.

Rem Koolhaas founded OMA in 1975 together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. After graduating from the Architectural Association in London, in 1978 he published Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan ; in 1995, his book summarised the work of OMA in "a novel about architecture". Currently, he leads both OMA and AMO - the research arm of OMA, operating in areas beyond the realm of architecture, including media, politics, renewable energy and fashion. Rem is also a professor at Harvard University, where he conducts the Project on the City, a research program investigating changing urban conditions around the world. In 2014, he was director of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, entitled 'Fundamentals'.

David Gianotten is managing partner-architect of OMA, overseeing the management, business strategy and growth of the company worldwide. As partner-in-charge he also oversees the design and construction of various projects, including the Taipei Performing Arts Centre; the masterplan of Feyenoord City and the new Stadium Feyenoord; the KataOMA resort in Bali and more recently the New Museum for Western Australia. As acting partner-in-charge of OMA's Hong Kong, Beijing and Perth offices, and the director of OMA Asia, David leads OMA's Asia-Pacific portfolio. While stationed in Hong Kong, he was responsible for the Shenzhen Stock Exchange headquarters, completed in 2013; the final stages of the CCTV headquarters in Beijing; and OMA's conceptual masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. David is also one of two directors at the recently opened OMA branch office in Australia.
Main photo by Earl Carter.

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2017: OMA / Rem Koolhaas & David Gianotten

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MPavilion 2017 is designed by Netherlands-based architects Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of OMA. Taking its cues from the ancient amphitheatre, MPavilion 2017 blurs the lines between inside and outside, in a skilful yet empathetic manipulation of the surrounding landscape in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens.