Design Graphics 1
Drafting and Drawing of the Built Environment
Students learn introductory drafting, lettering, and drawing techniques as they relate to the field of Landscape Architecture and professional standards. All work product is developed from Tongva Park, a real site located in Santa Monica. The final submission drawing represents the following deliverables:
1. Original vellum, 18″ x 24″, original pencil, hand drafting and drawing. No cut and paste except for photo gallery.
2. Use of Tongva Park base plans to extract the plan information represented in the Layout Plan Legend.
3. Introductory understanding of:
- Use of drafting tools
- Scale (Architect and Engineer Scales) and scale manipulation
- Line Weights (For the Layout Plan, Pedestrian Circulation being weighted with priority)
- Topography and Contours
- Principles of Plan and Section Graphics
- Develop Section, Section/Elevation from topography and plan information from Tongva Park base plans.
- Introductory proportionally scaled 1 and 2 point perspective sketching by hand
- Visualization and creation of 3-dimensional space through the use of 1 and 2 point perspective drawing, 2 dimension plan projection and graphing of topography, section/elevation.
- Photography of section line and perspective sketching for reference on presentation sheet
- Graphic formatting of presentation sheet
- Scanning specifications and printing of drawing sheets
- Digital file development and on-line organization
- Communication and introductory use of, ‘language of landscape architects’
- Hand lettering
Instructor
David Squires
Project Location
Santa Monica
