Digital Sketching - Computer-Aided Conceptual Design

Learn to apply new digital design technologies at your own firm with this practical and insightful resource
 
Digital Sketching: Computer-Aided Conceptual Design delivers a comprehensive and insightful examination of how architects and other design professionals can best use digital design technology to become better designers. Celebrated professional, professor, and author John Bacus provides readers with practical and timely information on emerging digital design technologies and their effect on professional practice.
 
By focusing on the big picture, this rigorous survey of conceptual design technology offers professionals realistic strategies for reclaiming time for design in the ever increasing speed of project delivery. This book helps architects (and others like them) learn to use digital sketching techniques to be better designers, right from the project's very first sketch.
 
As part of the groundbreaking Practical Revolutions series of books, Digital Sketching furthers the conversation of the practical deployment of emerging technologies in the building industries. This book provides readers with the information they need to evaluate digital design technology and decide whether or not to adopt and integrate it into their own processes. Readers will receive:
* An accelerated and accessible introduction to a highly technical topic
* Practical and applicable guidance on how to adapt a firm's business to adopt new technology without losing the benefit of existing intuition, skill, and experience.
* Real world implementations of specific techniques in the form of illuminating case studies that include results and lessons learned
 
Perfect for professional architectural designers, Digital Sketching also belongs on the bookshelves of interior designers, landscape architects, urban planners, contractors, and specialty fabricators of every kind. A disciplined sketching practice, especially through the digital methods discussed in this book, is a transformational benefit to anyone who designs and builds for a living.

List of contents

Prologue ix
 
Chapter 1 Sketching For Conceptual Design 1
 
Introduction 1
 
Creative Rigor in Design 1
 
How Do You "Design"? 3
 
Design Starts in the Studio 5
 
How to Sketch 6
 
Sketching Digitally 10
 
Be the Designer 12
 
It (Really) Isn't about the Tools 14
 
Stay Agile 19
 
Version Control Systems 31
 
Chapter 2 The Elements of Design 33
 
Designing the Elephant 34
 
The Measurement of Space 35
 
The Qualities o f Space 40
 
Geometry and Form 44
 
Freeform Curves 52
 
Surface 56
 
Building Objects and Other Higher-Order Primitives 64
 
Chapter 3 Representations of Space 71
 
Descriptive Geometry 73
 
Architectural Scale 76
 
Cutting Planes 79
 
Orthographic Projection 80
 
Plans 80
 
Elevations and Vertical Sections 82
 
Oblique Projection 83
 
Perspective Projection 88
 
Cinematic Perspective 92
 
Free Perspective 93
 
Stereoscopic Perspective 95
 
Unfolded Projections 98
 
Sketching in Diagrams 101
 
Chapter 4 Sketching In 2D 105
 
Your Sketchbook 105
 
Sketching with Purpose 106
 
Let's Get Sketching. . . 110
 
Physical Sketching 110
 
Materials for Physical Sketching 114
 
Carry a Sketchbook, Really 115
 
Tools for Digital Sketching 116
 
Physical and Digital Together 120
 
Chapter 5 Sketching In 3D 123
 
There Is No Hiding in Models 123
 
Benefits of Sketch Modeling 123
 
Physical Modeling 127
 
Digital Modeling 132
 
How 3D Modeling Actually Works 138
 
Sketching Lines in 3D 141
 
Sketching Surfaces in 3D 144
 
Sketching Forms in 3D 14 7
 
Assembling 3D Models from Parts 150
 
Chapter 6 Sketching In Code 157
 
Rules-Based Design 157
 
Materials for Digital Sketching 159
 
Getting Started with Programming 162
 
Chapter 7 From Sketch to Production 185
 
Sketching for Presentation 185
 
Sketching for BIM 189
 
BIM Levels of Development 191
 
Sketching in LoD 100 BIM 193
 
Sketching for Construction 198
 
Chapter 8 Epilogue 205
 
Technology Is Incremental - Even Revolutionary Technology 205
 
Computation Is Powerful, But It Isn't Limitless 206
 
An Imaginary Scenario about Construction 20 7
 
How Close Is This Future in 2020? 208
 
Appendix A What Computer Should I Buy? 211
 
Appendix B Integrated Development Environments (Ides) For Architects 223
 
Appendix C Sketching In Virtual Reality 227
 
Bibliography 233
 
Index 237

About the author

John Bacus is a Senior Director of Product Management for the Trimble Design & Engineering Solutions Group, where he works on new product strategies for the AEC industry. John has worked for over eighteen years on the design and development of SketchUp, a 3D sketching tool for design. John has degrees in Architecture from The Cooper Union and Rice University, and is currently a lecturer in the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado.

Summary

Learn to apply new digital design technologies at your own firm with this practical and insightful resource

Digital Sketching: Computer-Aided Conceptual Design delivers a comprehensive and insightful examination of how architects and other design professionals can best use digital design technology to become better designers. Celebrated professional, professor, and author John Bacus provides readers with practical and timely information on emerging digital design technologies and their effect on professional practice.

By focusing on the big picture, this rigorous survey of conceptual design technology offers professionals realistic strategies for reclaiming time for design in the ever increasing speed of project delivery. This book helps architects (and others like them) learn to use digital sketching techniques to be better designers, right from the project's very first sketch.

As part of the groundbreaking Practical Revolutions series of books, Digital Sketching furthers the conversation of the practical deployment of emerging technologies in the building industries. This book provides readers with the information they need to evaluate digital design technology and decide whether or not to adopt and integrate it into their own processes. Readers will receive:
* An accelerated and accessible introduction to a highly technical topic
* Practical and applicable guidance on how to adapt a firm's business to adopt new technology without losing the benefit of existing intuition, skill, and experience.
* Real world implementations of specific techniques in the form of illuminating case studies that include results and lessons learned

Perfect for professional architectural designers, Digital Sketching also belongs on the bookshelves of interior designers, landscape architects, urban planners, contractors, and specialty fabricators of every kind. A disciplined sketching practice, especially through the digital methods discussed in this book, is a transformational benefit to anyone who designs and builds for a living.

Product details

• Authors: J Bacus, Jim Bacus, John Bacus
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781119640769
• ISBN: 978-1-119-64076-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Disruptive AEC Technologies; Practical Revolutions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Entwurf, Grafikdesign, Graphic Design, Architekturzeichnung, Chemical Engineering, chemische Verfahrenstechnik, Computer-aided engineering, Computergestützte Verfahrenstechnik