Introduction to Freehand Architectural Design

Overview

“The architectural cuts are representations on a vertical plane, which can be lateral or frontal; it is as if we cut the building or object on one of its sides (like a cake!), and it helps us to define the scale, height and vertical proportions.”

In this video lesson Héctor López addresses the topic: Architectural cut: see through walls, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Freehand Architectural Design. Learn how to illustrate a custom architectural space with layouts, perspectives, and human scale.

Partial transcription of the video

“Architectural section: Seeing through walls In this lesson we will see the architectural section. It is important to note that it is directly linked to the architectural plan. To do this, I already made a clean copy of the plan we drew earlier, and corrected the error that I made in the main access of the drawing. Now we are ready to start drawing some reference lines and drawing the section. It is important to say that if in the architectural plan you had some problems to scale the spaces, you can do a trick. The trick is to measure with your drawing tool, this pen, to obtain this measurem...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Freehand Architectural Design

• Level: Beginner
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• 27800 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 1m)
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• Category

  Architecture & Spaces, Illustration

• Areas

  Architectural Illustration, Architecture