An-Najah Staff

General Description

This course aims at providing the students with the fundamental principles of computer drafting and modeling and shows how these techniques may be used to analyze, generate and represent architectural spaces and forms.

Course outline

I. Computerized 2D drafting

I.1 Basic shapes drawing

I.2 The operation of translation, rotation and reflection

I.3 Dimensions and notations

I.4 Grids and layers

I.5 Blocks and libraries

I.6 Drawing production and files exchange

II. Introduction to modeling

II.1 Thickness editing Method

II.2 Solids and primitives

II.3 Models slicing and transformation to 2d forms

III. Digital architectural presentation

III.1 Image processing and enhancement

III.2 Layouts design

III.3 Organization of multimedia presentation

Software

AutoCAD 2008/ Architectural desktop 2006 and Photoshop 8

Evaluation:

The students are expected to demonstrate the skills they gained during the course through set of home works, exams and the project.

In the project, the students are to explore the spatial qualities of different famous houses (the theme for this semester) and to show possible ordering grids, proportions and vocabulary of the parts (more information on the project is available in the project brief)

Home works 30%

Midterm exam 20%

Project 20%

Final exam 30%.

Total 100%