Architectural Drawing: From Imagination to Conceptualization
Amplifying Your Sketch
A course by Pavel Fomenko , Architect and concept developer
About the video: Amplifying Your Sketch
Overview
“Try to remember one of your greatest experiences, irrespective of what it was. Maybe it was a great movie, a beautiful song, a delicious meal, or fantastic customer service. What makes those memorable are the tiny nuances that typically aren’t easily detectable, but yet make you conscious of the unique nature of those special moments. Along with consuming a product, you also discern the nuances of its taste and qualities. It makes you appreciate and enjoy it. The same can be said about how you present your design ideas and how the people on the receiving end consume your thoughts. In this lesson, you will learn how to add a final touch to your drawing by using annotations.”
In this video lesson Pavel Fomenko addresses the topic: Amplifying Your Sketch, 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
“Amplifying Your Sketch Our design comprises set elements, and they're vividly visualized already. But what I could do, I have in fact already done this, I have inscribed "services" in this large vertical shaft that suggests that there will be integrated technical services. That's one way of amplifying the drawing by additional textual information. I could also write some indicators of what is the process here. In this case, you see that we have the main frame and we see the set of these residential slabs that are in the process of integration. I could write something briefly about what this...”
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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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