Architectural Drawing: From Imagination to Conceptualization
First Sketches and Exploration 2
A course by Pavel Fomenko , Architect and concept developer
About the video: First Sketches and Exploration 2
Overview
“Let's keep building our sketch and see how tracing paper can be an amazing ally to expand our ideas.”
In this video lesson Pavel Fomenko addresses the topic: First Sketches and Exploration 2, 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
“First Sketches and Exploration As you can see in this drawing, we're looking and trying to sketch out the totality of this idea. Part of that as well is that you're fairly limited to a certain amount of real estate of your sketchbook, it's not that large. You are inevitably delving into those nitty-gritty details, and the fine lines, and all the small things here, but if you want to explore that larger and broader, use other media. This is why I find tracing paper allows me to be even more spontaneous and even more rough. Let me grab a tracing roll. Something I like about tracing paper is I...”
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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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