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Home plan drafting, House plan drafting. SketchUp. AutoCAD Sample Drawings. Autocad 3D and 2D Practice Activities. CAD & Photoshop Coursebook (Chris Ebbert) Chris ebbert Hand Sketching – the systematic approach to professionalimagery When drawing sketches by hand, you do not have the automaticadvantages of perfect line, shading, and perspective you wouldhave when doing a CAD drawing. You still do face the same choices when constructing compositionand choosing viewing angles though. This could be used as a step-by-step guide to ending up with perfecthand sketches, should you decide to go down that road: Get enough paper; ideally A3 format Make sure you have a black biro, a black, coloured pencil, asharpener for it, French curves, and wite-out; Create an orthographic layout with “Top View” in the left,upper corner, “Front/ Back View” in the lower, left corner,“Side View” in the lower, right corner, and “perspective”(which could be an isometric perspective) in the upper, rightcorner.

Finally, take the coloured pencil and start shading efficientlyand well. Green Homes | Design Idea & Image Galleries on Dornob. (A) Futuristic, (B) Retro, (C) Organic or (D) Architecture. Bart Prince is a very hard architect to pin down – and he prefers it that way. While some contemporary all-star architectural designers like Frank Gehry are known for signature styles and materials, Prince prefers to be inspired to create unique solutions for each site and situation. In discussion with Dornob, he noted that one of the highest forms of praise one can receive is when someone tells you they recognized something as your design because it looked unlike anything you have done to date. His inspirations include such ground-breaking architects as Antoni Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff – designers who diverged from the mainstream styles of their times. Looking at just a few works by Bart Prince can easily be misleading.

One might take a snapshot from his career and be tempted to say they have figured him out, that he is “about curves” or “into strange forms” but around each corner is another work that is unlike any other. Environment Design Guide - Index. Microstation V8i 2011 Free Training. MicroStation Tutorials | MicroStation Training | MicroStation Help from the Bentley Institute. Diploma of Building and Construction (Building) - Building & Construction Courses. Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) by Boeri Studio | Visuall.

Milan-based architecture studio Boeri Studio (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, Giovanni La Varra) have designed an outstanding project that was entitled Bosco Verticale or Vertical Forest. Bosco Verticale is a project for metropolitan reforestation that contributes to the regeneration of the environment and urban biodiversity without the implication of expanding the city upon the territory. Bosco Verticale is a model of vertical densification of nature within the city. It is a model that operates correlated to the policies for reforestation and naturalization of the large urban and metropolitan borders (Metrosbosco). Metrobosco and Bosco Verticale are devices for the environmental survival of contemporary European cities.

On flat land, each Bosco Verticale equals, in amount of trees, an area equal to 10.000 sqm of forest. The Bosco Verticale is a system that optimizes, recuperates and produces energy. Project data: Location: Milano, Italy Year: 2007 (on going) Client: Hines Italia Team: Roof glossary. Hint: Hit "Ctrl + f" to search this roof glossary page. Types of roofs Barrel roof A roof with a semi-circular cross section Butterfly roof A roof that could be called an inverted gable roof. Both surfaces slope inwards from the walls to a central valley. Collar tie roof A short span roof without a ceiling joist or other tie at the wall plates. Compass roof. A pitched roof that has slight convex curves to the top surfaces. Couple close roof A short span roof with ceiling joists as ties but no other roof ties. Couple roof A short span roof without a ceiling joist or other tie. Dutch gable A lower part of a roof end that has a hip with an upper section with a gable. Fabric roofs Roofs made from flexible membranes and tensioned cables.

French truss A roof truss based on two Howe trusses and a bottom chord. Gable roofs A roof with two sloping surfaces from the ridge (usually in the center, joining at the side walls to form gable ends. Galleria Roof From the Italian word for gallery. Gambrel roof. Helm Roof. Metabolism (architecture) Interior of one of the capsules in the Nakagin Capsule Tower Metabolism メタボリズム was a post-war Japanese architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth. It had its first international exposure during CIAM's 1959 meeting and its ideas were tentatively tested by students from Kenzo Tange's MIT studio.

During the preparation for the 1960 Tōkyō World Design Conference a group of talented young architects and designers, including Kiyonori Kikutake, Kisho Kurokawa and Fumihiko Maki prepared the publication of the Metabolism manifesto. They were influenced by a wide variety of sources including Marxist theories and biological processes. Their manifesto was a series of four essays entitled: Ocean City, Space City, Towards Group Form and Material and Man, and it also included designs for vast cities that floated on the oceans and plug-in capsule towers that could incorporate organic growth.

Marine City sketch by Kikutake, 1958. SCHOLA LATINA UNIVERSALIS. Latiné loqui disce sine molestiá! Learn to speak Latin with ease! ¡Aprende a hablar latín sin esfuerzo! Apprenez à parler latin sans peine! Impara a parlare latino senza sforzo! Latin has represented for the last three thousand years the most genuine expression of our common culture, European and universal. It was the language of our Roman ancestors, like Plautus and Terence, Cicero or Virgil, Seneca and Pliny, as well as Statius and Quintilian, Martial or Tacitus, Suetonius and Gellius, or later on Ausonius and Claudianus, Ammianus Marcellinus, Ambrose or Augustine.

Through writers like Boëthius and Cassiodorus, Gregory of Tours and Isidore of Seville, Latin managed to survive the fall of the Roman Empire, and continued to be used throughout the whole of the Middle Ages, as the language of jurisprudence, philosophy and theology, culminating with Thomas Aquinas. Despite the richness of our millenary culture, many people, dispossessed of their roots by the turbulent events and narrow-minded ideologies of the last couple of centuries, have currently been led to believe that the Latin language died with the last of the Romans. The future of Europe Learning Latin (D. ABC TV: In The Mind Of The Architect. NCC Standards interactive house - NCC, BCA, PCA - Home. Welcome to the NCC Standards interactive house Do you know every Standard referenced in the Australian National Construction Code (NCC) and pertaining to residential premises? Standards referenced in the NCC fall under the NCC's Deemed-to-Satisfy provisions and compliance with these Standards represents the most common method of satisfying the NCC performance requirements.

Explore the NCC Standards interactive house, incorporating the Building Code of Australia (BCA) Housing Provisions (Volume 2) and the Plumbing Code of Australia (PCA) (Volume 3) of the NCC. To begin, simply pick a room below! NCC Standards interactive house > Suggest an improvement > Forward to a Friend Disclaimer: The information contained within this service is provided by way of indicative guidance only and neither SAI Global Limited nor any of its related bodies represents that it is accurate or complete or suitable for any particular purpose. The Architect as Totalitarian by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Autumn 2009. Tumbleweed Tiny House Company. 6440_att1.pdf (application/pdf Object)