Diagramming
Diagrams are tools used by many professions to demonstrate and simplify complex ideas, processes, and systems in a manner to make them more easily digestible to an intended audience.
The environmental design professions rely on specific visual communication tools – diagrams – to explain and/or analyze site conditions and programs, design concepts, and various aspects of function, activities, processes and relationships. This unit will help you refine skills, and learn how to determine which type of diagram to use in different situations.
Goals and Objectives
1. To provide opportunities to apply diagrammatic analysis.
2. To build skill in techniques of designing and drawing diagrams and visual analysis graphics.
3. To develop understanding of which diagrams apply to a given place, to explain a condition, set of relationships, or situation – which diagram to use to communicate information effectively.
Exercise 1
From the spaces provided, you will select a site for analysis and diagramming and complete a series of four compositions on 11x17s. Each of these diagrams will attack specific issue with the location – Layering/Transition, Circulation/Destination, Function/Activity + one you develop on your own. These will be annotated diagrams. ALL of the sketching and drawing skills you have developed should be utilized to produce the final product, keeping in mind you will be doing a series of drawings to develop an argument for the analysis you develop.
These are diagrams you will develop for yourself in the future. Use the graphics books to develop a language that speaks clearly and allows the analysis to speak from your perspective and understandings.
Exercise 2
During your trip home for Memorial Day Weekend, you will develop a diagram demonstrating the experience, events and transitions of your drive home on an 11x17. This will be an annotated diagram. Having completed the above exercise at this point you’ll develop this diagram from the vantage point of explaining this trip to your instructor with a logic that will give them an understanding of the experience and enable them to get to your house from the CAP building.