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Sketches of Seating author reveals seven drawings of chairs by prolific designers

Deezen

To mark the launch of Sketches of Seating, a book highlighting the process behind contemporary chair design, co-author Daniel Schofield talks through seven of the most inspiring drawings. Launched during 3 Days of Design , the book aims to answer the question, how do designers use sketching as a tool in the creative process? "I

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Architectural concept drawings

Lines on Paper

I recently found these sketches from 2015, and was quite pleasantly surprised that the key idea is easy to understand, it made use of the existing space and tied in neatly with the existing structure. In any case, I recall enjoying working on this design and conversations with Sam, who was a good intermediary between the client and us.

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Architectural Graphics 101 – Line Weight

Life of an Architect

I am fairly consistent with my use of line weight, and it doesn’t really matter if I am sketching or working digitally. I typically work with 3 line weights when sketching (because I’m not completely crazy) and 5 when I am drafting digitally.

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‘Ellie the Elephant’ Playhouse – Winner’s Profile

Life of an Architect

It took one week to come up with different ideas and sketches. Once I decided on a theme, I did an initial sketch and then it took three days to make changes and finalize everything. When the competition started, I had a lot of ideas and sketches, but my nephew inspired the elephant idea (he has a stuffed elephant named Ellie).

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You Should Design Everything

Life of an Architect

The sketch above was the initial idea that I had – a “trophy” like, vertically oriented keepsake. This concept will allow me to but out a profile from a single piece of 1/8″ think plate steel and then brake (fold) the bottom of the steel under the block of wood.

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ONEXN Architects

ArchiDiaries

Starting from their devotion to architectural thinking and practicing, Bo Zhang and Jingjing Wang founded ONEXN Architects in Shenzhen in 2015. We are responding to these issues with our systematic thinking and practice, and the thinking process based on sketches and modeling has been embedded in our daily life.

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Movie Theater Playhouse – The Construction Drawings

Life of an Architect

The sketch above is one of the very first ones I created when I started thinking about what sort of playhouse I would design this year. Pretty simple sketch and idea, but make no mistake about it, these playhouses can be deceptively complicated little buildings – at least they are the way I do them.