Architectural Freehand Concept Sketching
Identifying the Design Idea and Vision
A course by Pavel Fomenko , Architect and concept developer
About the video: Identifying the Design Idea and Vision
Overview
“Here's where I bring up the project´s main theme and try to formulate its vision. I'll talk about how to establish the project´s location its length, and how to conceptualize its design content. Sketching is thinking, and thinking is vision. You will learn how to translate your vision into clear, simple, and concise hand drawings. Next, I will show you how to apply sketching techniques to draw geometries, objects, and shapes with efficiency and precision. During this process, you'll extensively explore, imagine and visualize.”
In this video lesson Pavel Fomenko addresses the topic: Identifying the Design Idea and Vision, which is part of the Domestika online course: Architectural Freehand Concept Sketching. Enhance your architectural design skills through freehand sketching. Learn how to quickly conceptualize and visualize your ideas through simple line drawings..
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we will look at the project's main overriding theme, and that is creating that imaginary road stretch. We will look at the geographical location, we will try to define its core elements, and I will illustrate approach towards identifying all these different aspects of vision and idea by showing you examples of my previous projects. There is a lot of similarity and there is a lot of interesting synergies between all those different approaches, because conceptual approach is a very broad term. So you have to be both very specific, but you also have to be very holistic in terms...”
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Course summary for: Architectural Freehand Concept Sketching
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Architecture & Spaces, Illustration -
Areas
Architectural Illustration, Architecture, Drawing, Ink Illustration, 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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