Exploded axonometric drawings can explain a concept or idea as a series of visual components. This drawing type is useful to explain a complex idea or concept and describe how each of the design’s components could be assembled together. Perspective and isometric drawings can also be exploded. Avant-garde ‘Avant-garde’ in French means front guard, advance […]

To produce an axonometric drawing you need to redraw or recreate a plan view at an angle of 45 degrees to the horizontal. The plan needs to be orientated so that the right view is achieved axonometrically, for example, there may be a particular elevation aspect of the building that needs to be represented. At […]

Perspective Project: Rotterdam Photography Museum Location: Rotterdam, the Netherlands Designer: David Yeates Date: 2007 This scheme used the museum’s subject matter, photography, as its concept generator. The building was a projection screen to the outside space. This CAD perspective is generated from CAD software. Perspective views can be single-, two-, or three-point representations. These points […]

All perspectives images are taken from a particular view or standpoint. The standpoint will determine everything about the view that is described. It is usually taken at a standard eye-level height, but it can be manipulated so that the view is altered. A bird’s-eye view, for example, is a standpoint from above, producing a perspective […]

This exercise is intended to explain and explore the sectional cut and drawing. Sometimes it is difficult to understand what the section of an object or building describes, but essentially it reveals the hidden aspects of a structure. 1 Find an old shoe and saw it in half along its length. Be careful when cutting […]