Draw Urban Analysis Diagrams

A COMMUNICATION & DRAWING COURSE

Draw Urban Analysis Diagrams

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    What is the course about?

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    In this course we will be examining workflows to help us create urban analysis diagrams with Rhino & illustrator. This is a great tutorial for Illustrator beginners who want to learn to create professional urban site analysis diagrams.

    What will you learn in each video?

    Illustrator is a software in the Adobe Creative Suite. It is a vector-based editor used widely to create vector graphics and artworks. This lesson will examine the basics of Illustrator required to create simple but effective architectural analysis diagrams.

    This lesson will explore how create a simple figure / ground diagram that is commonly the starting point for any architectural site analysis using Rhino & Illustrator.

    This lesson will explore how create a 2D building height analysis diagram using Rhino & Illustrator.

    This lesson will explore how create a 2D green space analysis diagram using Rhino & Illustrator.

    This lesson will explore other useful site analysis diagrams we can create with a simple Rhino to Illustrator workflow.

    Rhino can be used to create visuals of shadow paths for urban contexts. This lesson will examine how to overlay a series of shadow paths at different times of the day to create a 2D shadow analysis diagram using Rhino & Illustrator.

    It’s quite easy to turn 2D site analysis diagrams into 3D diagrams. This lesson will explore how to re-creating our green spaces diagram in 3D.

    Illustrator can export a number of different filetypes, such as pdf, jpeg or png. This lesson will explore different workflows to export a number of different filetypes from Illustrator for design presentations.

    What are the learning objectives for the course?

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