Architectural Drawing: From Imagination to Conceptualization
Laying Base
A course by Pavel Fomenko , Architect and concept developer
About the video: Laying Base
Overview
“In this lesson, we are moving on to the main part of creating the final project. You will take your experiences of exploration and understanding of your design and start translating them into a more cohesive, focused, and versatile visual story. You will finally get the chance to compose the image of the design by deploying your senses of perspective, geometry, shape, and space.”
In this video lesson Pavel Fomenko addresses the topic: Laying Base, which is part of the Domestika online course: Architectural Drawing: From Imagination to Conceptualization. Learn to amplify your ideas with architectural geometry, three-dimensional thinking, and drawing techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Laying Base Now we come to an important part. I'm gonna start laying base for our final project, which is gonna be our final sketch. I'm gonna use it by means of mechanical pencil. As you can see here, I already started laying the base for the perspective. It's a bit of a complicated process, not really difficult, but complicated in a sense of that you're really trying to filter out your vision and how do you want to put your object and your building composition-wise on the available piece of real estate. This is something that we touched on previously, but this is where it basically comes ...”
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Course summary for: Architectural Drawing: From Imagination to Conceptualization
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Areas
Architectural Illustration, Architecture, Drawing, Sketching

Pavel Fomenko
A course by Pavel Fomenko
Pavel Fomenko is an accomplished architect and concept developer with over two decades of experience in the architecture and design industry. Currently leading a concept design division within AFRY Norway, one of Scandinavia's largest engineering groups specializing in infrastructural design, mobility, and transportation.
In his role, Pavel oversees the early stages of design development, ensuring that the team's creative outputs deliver relevance, inspiration, value, and innovation to a diverse range of projects, clients, and collaborators. His creative approach combines intuition and practicality, with exploratory sketching serving as a means to communicate the functional, technical, and emotional depths of his designs.
Pavel's project portfolio is diverse, spanning from private commissions to large industrial buildings and city master plans. He has been involved in groundbreaking projects like an 800,000 sq.m. industrial facility in Norway focused on next-generation research and manufacturing of high-density electrical battery cells. Pavel's expertise extends to transit hub development in Lugano, Switzerland, where he envisions a transportation hub at the heart of future master plan development.
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