Architectural drawing

A Drawing of Architect (also design drawing or presentation drawing) is a form of architectural representation. The architect used these drawings and sketches to develop his ideas, to articulate and present finally. A linguistic description would be much less precise.

Content and purpose

In contrast to the architectural drawing, which has the purpose to serve as a concrete model for the construction of a building, the architects drawing is subject to any rules or conventions. Rather, it is this type of drawing important to convey the idea behind concisely as possible. So you can represent the same design in many ways, not a form of representation is "correct".

The design is classically represented in plan, elevation or elevations and sections (see three-panel projection). In addition there are prospects or Isometrieen, ie three-dimensional depictions and details. The usual scale is between 1:5000 - 1:500 for site and floor plans up to 1:100 for floor plans and sections. The dimension plays a minor role, since it depends on the idea, not to precise dimensions. The Analytique is a representation of designs and structures.

The aim of the drawing is in addition to the transport of the content (ie the readability or comprehensibility ) and an aesthetic representation to convince potential clients, investors or the jury in a competition by the concept. It so happens that some drawings go to the artistic and abstract and the actual design is still very difficult to read. The drawings by Zaha Hadid are an example of this excess of aesthetics.

Area of ​​application

Architectural drawings are used in the study, at meetings within workgroups and offices, in presentations to clients, investors, decision-making bodies of all kinds, they are submitted under planning permission and architectural competitions.

Creation

First ideas are developed in the form of sketches. Is a certain level of development reached, the idea in drawings or collages is held. By the end of the 20th century this was done with pencil and ink on paper. Since many drawings were drawn freehand, thus blurring the lines easily, they spoke colloquially occasionally by a jitter graph. Then the drawings with certain hatching technique, color pencils were ( crayons, copicstifte ) or colored or patterned adhesive films further elaborated. Multilayered collage techniques with transparent, colored or pasted sheets were used.

Since the 90s, the CAD technology has become increasingly important. Most architects create their drawings mostly digitally on the computer. The digital data is printed with plotter ( inkjet or laser procedure) in color or monochrome. An alternative is the presentation using video projector.