JoBeth Halpin, Greg Lawson and Nancy Gardner, Instructors

ARC187 is a first course in architectural drawing and delineation. An architect or interior designer thinks graphically and develops his concepts through sketches and detail drawings. He communicates his ideas to his clients and sells his design through drawings and models. The architect makes drawings to explain the construction requirements to the builder. Most of an architect's or interior designer's work is highly dependent on his skill at drawing. The objective of this course is to enable the student to learn the proper tools and techniques for producing the various types of drawings and models which he will make use of in his professional career. This will include sketches, orthographic projection, axonometrics, obliques, perspectives, shades and shadows, reflections, rendering techniques, CADD drawings and models.

Prerequisite:  ARC109 or concurrent

Text: Ching, Francis. Architectural Graphics.

Course Outline:

Introduction to Composition
Project No. 1
Design tools - point, line, shape, form, volume, space, sequence, color, texture, light – sketching, lettering and shading techniques
Project No. 2 simple orthographic projection project – plan and elevations
Project No. 2
Compositional Tools: Image, Expressive of its function, Reminiscent (of something), Imitation of a historical style, Expressive of its structure, Complementary to context, Contrast to context, Grid and module, Focal Point
Project No. 3 – pen sketching
Project No. 4 - design small house facades
Project No. 5 - Build model of three houses
Project No. 6 – Design and build model of site for houses
Project No. 6 – Isometric and oblique pictorial drawings
Project No. 7 - 2 point Perspective
Project No. 8 – multi-point perspective
Project No. 8 - 3d drawings
Project No. 9 – model of interior
Project No. 9 –
Project No. 9
Final Exam - portfolio

Department Policy

Required Supplies and where to get them

Quality Assurance Rules

Schedule:

Week	Date	Drawing exercise
1		Begin Project No. 1 - House plan and elevations Sketch:  Froebel Block exercise
2		Continue to work on Project No. 1 - design window openings for elevations.  Wednesday: Sketch:  Lettering and freehand sketching exercises.  Note that the 4th of September is Labor Day, and there is no class that day.
3		Continue to work on Project No. 1 Sketch: prismacolor sketching exercises.
4		Complete Project No. 1.   Begin Project No. 2 -  roof plans (manually drawn)
5		Continue to work on Project No. 2.  Sketch: People in Perspective Renderings in color
6		Complete Project No. 2 Begin Project No. 3 - site plan of model - shades and shadows Sketch: Tree Renderings (color)
7		Continue Project No. 3 Sketch: freehand textures
8		Complete Project No. 3  Begin Project No. 4: Construct model
9		Continue Project No. 4 Sketch:  SIMCITY
10		Complete Project No. 4 Begin Project No. 5: Isometric view of Mountain Cottage Sketch: SIMCITY
11		Continue Project No. 5 Sketch:  SIMCITY
12		Complete Project No. 5 Begin Project No. 6 - Oblique view of student-selected floor plan Sketch: Paint Shop Pro
13		Continue Project No. 6 Sketch: Paint Shop Pro
14		Complete Project No. 6 Begin Project No. 7 - interior one-point perspective Sketch: Paint Shop Pro
15		Continue Project No. 7 Sketch:
16		Complete Project No. 7 Sketch: Paint Shop Pro
17		Begin Portfolio
18		PORTFOLIO DUE