Axonometry is the best tool to let you understand the real impact of a project.
That’s why, a diagram is never enough.
Today I want to share how powerful is the drawing’s expression. I have always loved grids, dots lines and symmetry and when, during my master thesis, I discovered axonometric drawings, I totally enjoyed and used them during my process.
Why is axonometry a powerful learning tool during a design process?
Because it shows the reality, with right proportion and relations within project’s parts.
Because it is a three dimensional proof of functioning and buildability.
Because walls, ceilings, floors and also street and people, are showed and strongly connected in the representation.
Axonometry is a dynamic drawing.
It’s not just a simple diagram out of real dimensions. It is based on plan drawing, the most closed representation of the reality.
How to draw an axonometric view? It’s quite simple, follow me below. Once you have your plan drawing, with correct dimensions that fit with the reality, go to Autocad or Revit (you can use any kind of 3D program, for example Rhyno). It has to be a program that allows you to export view on 2D lines.
I used in that case Rhynoceros. Below the last steps.
Built your 3D and set a axonometric view.
Go for the isometric view, in which the three coordinate axes appear equally.
Export the view as a 2D drawing.
You can open again on Autocad.
Once you have in Autocad again. It’s time to play around with trim, extend, add shadows and layers, so you can personalise your axo.
The appearance of a subject in an axonometric drawing is similar to real life.
That’s because proportions of the subject are correct, even if the “posture” has something unusual. In real life we observe the scene from our eyes’ view, circa 1.8m.
By removing the viewer from the scene, axonometric drawing loses the connection with the natural perception but provides a sense of control : we can learn about the space and the object, the space within them and we can imagine the future scenario.
Isn’t that powerful?
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