Urban design. Urban design is the process of designing and shaping cities, towns and villages. Whereas architecture focuses on individual buildings, urban design address the larger scale of groups of buildings, of streets and public spaces, whole neighborhoods and districts, and entire cities, to make urban areas functional, attractive, and sustainable. Urban design is an inter-disciplinary subject that unites all the built environment professions, including urban planning, landscape architecture, architecture, civil and municipal engineering.
It is common for professionals in all these disciplines to practice in urban design. In more recent times different sub-strands of urban design have emerged such as strategic urban design, landscape urbanism, water-sensitive urban design, and sustainable urbanism. Urban design[1] is about making connections between people and places, movement and urban form, nature and the built fabric. While the two fields are closely related, they differ in two respects. World Architecture Images- Fantasy Architecture. Imagined buildings, structures and schemes - from designs for palaces by medieval masters to futuristic film sets. Featuring the work of visionary figures as diverse as Inigo Jones, Joseph Paxton, Robert Adam, John Soane, Edwin Lutyens, Archigram and Foreign Office Architects, Fantasy Architecture includes a wealth of historical and contemporary drawings.
Paintings, models, collage, film and computer renderings of designs for buildings that might have changed our lives, or could still do so, are also presented. An explosion of building activity across Britain has made headlines over the past decade, with lottery-funded projects transforming towns and cities. Architects' impressions, which herald these projects, have become familiar. Yet these designs for built and un-built projects have been produced for hundreds of years, from ink and wash drawings to the computer animations of today. Anchor Blocks; F.A.D. Asymptote, Charles Barry, John Belcher, Etienne Louis Boullée, W.
Mirage.studio.7. Top 20 International Architecture Websites 2012: Giants of Architecture Online. On June 4, 2012 we released the Top 20 International Urban Planning Websites 2012, now it’s architecture’s turn. We searched for your international architectural sources, using Alexa International Rankings, and found these to be your 2012 – Top 20 most popular architecture-related websites.* Whether serving you with visual inspiration through featured projects, providing opportunities for you to connect to the larger architecture community, or tools to develop your business practice – this is where you (and your peers) spend most of that precious Internet browsing time (and we know it’s during “working” hours). Check out the list and let us know if we’ve missed someone important, in the comment section below. 1. SkyscraperCity / / @skyscrapercity SkyscraperCity, although a forum, is the highest ranking architecture-related website. 2. 3. 4. 5.
ArchDaily claims, in their tagline, that they are “the world’s most visited architecture website.” 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. DIY Used Cargo Homes & Shipping Container House Plans. Once upon a time, you had to buy passage on a freight ship headed out to sea in order to see a stack of containers piled high to the sky all around you. Nowadays more and more architects and builders are finding used free or for sale cargo containers at discount prices to construct all kinds of houses, homes and office structures. However, lest you think you need to go the route of hiring a professional, you should know that some do-it-yourself designers like Keith Dewey are making do with their own shipping container home plans.
His own home, for example is constructed out of eight used shipping containers stacked on a residential lot. On top of that he has come up with all kinds of engaging cargo home plans and designs that range from simply, sturdy and easy-to-construct to complex, conceptual, whimsical and nearly impossible to build. The above sequence of shipping container housing structures sits somewhere in the middle. Architecture Design for Architects | Architectural Record. ARCHCareers. Intern 101. The Information Architecture Institute. Architecture. Warindustries. Twisted Architecture. I didn’t set out to tie knots in Norman Foster’s Hearst Tower or wrinkle his Gherkin, but I got carried away. It’s one of the occupational hazards of working with Mathematica. It started with an innocent experiment in lofting, a technique also known as “skinning” that originated in boat-building.
I wanted to explore some three-dimensional forms, and a basic lofting function seemed like a quick ticket to results. I dashed off the function Loft, which takes a stack of three-dimensional contours and covers it with a skin of polygons. Loft uses Mathematica‘s GraphicsComplex primitive to factor out the geometries of the polygons from their topologies. The contour point coordinates are collected in the first argument. The second argument is a list of Polygons whose coordinate values are replaced by integer indices into the coordinate list.
I tried out Loft by embedding it in a Manipulate, and was happily on my way discovering some interesting new forms. Legalize Hempcrete: The Growing Eco-Movement to Build Homes Out of Hemp - Design. The notion of California dreamin' is poised to reach a whole new level with the state's first home made out of hemp. The owners of the ruins of Knapp's Castle in Santa Barbara plan to begin building a home out of a sustainable construction material called Hempcrete, a mixture of hemp, lime, and water. Hemp makes a good building material because it's extremely energy-efficient, non-toxic, and resistant to mold, insects, and fire. Plus, it absorbs carbon dioxide, making it good for the environment. Hemp Technologies, a North Carolina-based construction company working on the California project, already has built homes out of hemp in Hawaii, Texas, North Carolina, and Idaho.
The North Carolina project, known as "NauHaus," received LEED platinum status. "We got started about 3 years ago and I was looking for sustainable building products. The one major hurdle standing between Madera and the dream of entire neighborhoods made of hemp? Welcome to the World of Archidose! Architect Unknown. How to Architect | Learn about architecture | Become an architect | Design like an architect. Drawing ARCHITECTURE. Architectural drawing. An architectural drawing or architect's drawing is a technical drawing of a building (or building project) that falls within the definition of architecture. Architectural drawings are used by architects and others for a number of purposes: to develop a design idea into a coherent proposal, to communicate ideas and concepts, to convince clients of the merits of a design, to enable a building contractor to construct it, as a record of the completed work, and to make a record of a building that already exists.
The development of the computer had a major impact on the methods used to design and create technical drawings,[1] making manual drawing almost obsolete, and opening up new possibilities of form using organic shapes and complex geometry. Today the vast majority of drawings are created using CAD software.[2] Size and scale[edit] Architectural drawings are drawn to scale, so that relative sizes are correctly represented. Standard views used in architects' drawings.
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