plans and sections
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plans and sectionsTRANSCRIPT
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
et Ex
tensio
n
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