plans and sections

Site Plans

Sasaki - Caohai North Shore New Urban District; Kunming, ChinaSasaki - Providence 2020 Plan - Providence, RIhttp://www.sasaki.com/what/portfolio.cgi?fid=356&service=1

SHOW CONTEXT - either aerial or base map (figure-ground or similar)DISTINGUISH YOUR PROJECT AREA FROM SURROUNDINGSDISTINGUISH EXISTING FROM PROPOSED WITHIN STUDY AREA

Sasaki - Providence 2020 Plan - Providence, RIhttp://www.sasaki.com/what/portfolio.cgi?fid=356&service=1

SHOW CONTEXT - either aerial or base map (figure-ground or similar)

DISTINGUISH YOUR PROJECT AREA FROM SURROUNDINGS

DISTINGUISH EXISTING FROM PROPOSED WITHIN STUDY AREA

Sasaki - Caohai North Shore New Urban District; Kunming, China

SHOW CONTEXT - either aerial or base map (figure-ground or similar)

DISTINGUISH YOUR PROJECT AREA FROM SURROUNDINGS

DISTINGUISH EXISTING FROM PROPOSED WITHIN STUDY AREA

Nayla Al-Akl - Hunters Point Parklands Studio, Spring 2007 | http://studioworks.gsd.harvard.edu/browse/studioworks.html

SKETCHUP MODEL overlayed on either line drawing or aerial

East Bayfront Precinct Plan., pg 19, 21http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/dbdocs//4491a914d1783.pdf

Geneva Wirth - Landscape Arch Core Studio - Fourth Semester Core, Spring 2007 | http://studioworks.gsd.harvard.edu/browse/studioworks.html

PHOTOSHOP over an aerial can work too!

LINE WEIGHT is crucial to help a drawing “read”

Plan to Label

Jill Allen - Master Plan & Concept Diagram - Intro to Urban Design Techniques,Martin Zogran, Spring 2008

all one line weight(Sketchup will look like this)

line weight adjusted(change in Illustrator)

Jill Allen - Master Plan & Concept Diagram - Intro to Urban Design Techniques - Martin Zogran, Spring 2008

Street Plan Plan to Label

.DWG exported from SKETCHUP (top view) to ILLUSTRATOR (line weight changes + live trace + shadows)

Plan to LabelPlan to LabelOriginal Sketchup

.dwg export (context added from another drawing in Illustrator)

Jill Allen, Layering the Landscape, Aquidneck Island, RI, Core Studio. Spring 2008

ADD GROUND TEXTURES in photoshop (or in sketchup) to show different types of open space

Burnham Memorial Design Competition - Sasaki Associates (3rd Place); Chicago, ILhttp://www.sasaki.com/what/portfolio.cgi?fid=514&service=2&page=1

Sasaki - Cedar Rapids River Corridor Redevelopment Plan, Cedar Rapids, Iowahttp://www.sasaki.com/what/portfolio.cgi?fid=491&project_type=6&page=1

DIAGRAMATIC PLANS can be effective too - just choose line weights and colors carefully - and don’t forget to label key roads, districts, landmarks!

Jill Allen - Fall 2008 Core Studio

HAND DRAWING is quick and effective if you trace over a plan created in Illustator, GIS, CAD, or Sketchup - just be aware of line weight and color choices;

Resort Plan - Sasaki Associates. In Plan and Section Drawing (2nd Edition) by Thomas C. Wang. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1996

ADDING HAND DRAWN ELEMENTS can add life to an otherwise bland computer image; it’s also quicker than hand-drawing the entire drawing

Summer Street

Pappas Way

Fargo Street

F Stre

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Drydock Ave

Channel Park

Reserved Channel

100’

.dwg exported from Sketchup to Illustrator (for line weight changes)

Colored Image (printed image to left on white paper and used markers)

Fills, labels, etc. added over scanned drawing in Illustrator

Jill Allen - Fall 2008 Core Studio

Street Sectionsand

Site Sections

Design Drawing,Francis D.K. Ching, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1998. pg 155

WHAT IS A SECTION?

TYPES OF SECTIONS

Plan and Section Drawing (2nd Edition) by Thomas C. Wang. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1996, pg. 95

TYPES OF SECTIONS

Plan and Section Drawing (2nd Edition) by Thomas C. Wang. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1996, pg. 95

Sidewalk 20 ’ S idewalk 20 ’Park 8 ’ Dr i ve 11 ’ Dr ive 11 ’ Dr ive 11 ’ Dr ive 11 ’ Park 8 ’

Jill AllenSBW - Core Studio Fall 2008

BASIC STREET SECTIONS convey widths of various sections of a street and the relationship of the street width to building height

hand drawing on trace over the cad image to left original cad image

Leah Rominger. Havana Studio Midterm. Fall 2009

recharge the ground water

sewagepipesstorm-water

pipes

power linespowerlines

open space side walkbikebike car carBRT BRTbio swale median

Xue Zhou. Havana Studio Midterm. Fall 2009

Vincent Lavergne, Jeremy Nadau, Mathieu Lavergne, and Remi Mendes, Nadau Lavergne architects, Paris, France http://gallery.grandconcourse100.org/proposals/13

TYPES OF SECTIONS

Plan and Section Drawing (2nd Edition) by Thomas C. Wang. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1996, pg. 95

Wang Associates International - Waterfront Festival Market. In Plan and Section Drawing (2nd Edition) by Thomas C. Wang. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1996

Sasaki Associates. In Plan and Section Drawing (2nd Edition) by Thomas C. Wang. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1996

TYPES OF SECTIONS

Plan and Section Drawing (2nd Edition) by Thomas C. Wang. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1996, pg. 95

http://udcompetition.uli.org/images/Phase3_09/Team_0770_Final-BOARDS_web.pdf

A PERSPECTIVE SECTION is similar to the basic but it has a vanishing point

http://udcompetition.uli.org/images/Phase2/Team_2143_presentation_boards.pdf

PERSPECTIVE SITE SECTION

3D Sections: Axonometric and Perspective

AXONOMETRIC OR PERSPECTIVE street sections give non-planners a better sense of the scale of your proposed street

Martin Zogran, Class Presentation - Streetscape, Spring 2009 - Intro to Urban Design Techniques

Sidewalk

Sidewalk

Verge

ParkLane

ParkLane

DriveLane

DriveLane

DriveLaneDriveLane

MedianSwale

20’ 6’ 8’ 11’ 11’ 16’11’ 11’ 8’ 6’

Verge

8’Renaturalized Edge of Fort Point Channel

110’

Jill Allen - Street Axon, Intro to Urban Design Techniques - Martin Zogran, Spring 2008

Brian Alessi - Reburbia Design Competition, Dwellhttp://www.re-burbia.com/2009/08/07/regenerative-suburban-median/

HABITAT TRAILS - Parks not Pipes, University of Arkansas Community Design Center, ROGERS, ARKANSAS with University of Arkansas Ecological Engineering Group

RailroadR.O.W.

ConnellHWY

New MixedUse Blvd

New Res.Street

MalbourneRd

New Res.Street

New Res.Street

New Res.Street

NewTower

Preserved Historical Home

Wetland Park Existing Navy Bldgs Wetland Mixed Use Forest Buffer Mixed Use PUD - Lifestyle Center Forest Residential Forest Residential Forest Res. ResidentialParkJill Allen , , Layering the Landscape - Aquidneck Island, RI - Core Studio. Spring 2008

CONSTRUCTING A HAND-DRAWN SITE SECTION

section originally from sketchup

hand-drawn section (traced above on trace paper)

final section - with labels added in Illustrator