Overview

This unit aims to introduce students to visual communication through sketching, photography, 2D and 3D drawing using art and architectural precedents. It provide student with basic skills of orthographic (hardline), axonometric and perspective drawing. The unit also provides students with understanding of spaces and forms via conceptual model making and drawing. The unit will focus on studio skills building within a series of small tasks and a final skill-consolidation project.

Requisites

Corequisites
DDD10006 Introductory Design Studio
Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Analyse and explain design drawing and drawing techniques specific to Architecture (A2, A4)
  • Consider and articulate experiential space as a constructed interior environment (A6, S3)
  • Visually convey space, planning and human environments using industry-relevant methods (K3, K5, S3)
  • Apply basic model-making techniques (conceptual model) to a formal presentation project (A2, K2)
  • Apply basic drawing techniques (Architectural orthographic and perspective drawings) to a formal presentation project (A2, A5)
  • Negotiate between 2D and 3D representation (A2, K2)
  • Explore and articulate the effect of light and materials through observation, hand model making, rendering and photographic documentation (A2, A6, K1)

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Studio		3.00 12 weeks 36
Specified Activities
Various		9.50 12 weeks 114
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Project 1Individual 30% 2,3,4,5,6,7 
Project 2Individual 30% 1,2,3,4,5,6 
Project 3Individual 40% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 

Content

  • Orthographic planning and hand drawing;
  • Grid Perspective and Axonometric hand drawing;
  • Model-making – abstract, conceptual, spatial;
  • Spatial communication
  • Rendering and lighting
  • Photography
  • Abstract compositions of form and scale
  • Additive and subtractive forms
  • Spatial dynamics
  • Orientation and context
  • Aesthetics and senses in design
  • Verbal and visual communication

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.