I don't think much of paper and pencil either. Once drawn, floor plans can be changed much more easily, different versions saved, compared
Unfortunately, that is still its strongest effect: the client falls in love with a non-functional model
The problem is that sketching has little to do with drafting: a sketch captures an idea in 5 minutes, even next to the bed or on the toilet. The next idea fits in until the one-way street becomes a dead end. Then paper can quickly be crumpled up and replaced. You start anew. From this arises the draft, a relatively error-eliminated final draft.
With a tool or program, you invest a bit more time in the sketch, which results in going around in circles in the dead end because "the rest" took so much time and somehow also looks so nice (own pride without expertise).
If you then also have a 3D tool, you fall in love with what you have “created” as a layman and do not pay attention to any errors. If you even recognize them, you excuse them with "program errors" or just ignore them.
I just have the impression that with many who use a program, the brain turns off. Not so much with counting boxes.
That's exactly it: I am also not a fan of Excel, at least not for house costs. Many do not see or pay attention to the individual items at all; only the result is seen. That perhaps some items are disproportionate or missing is not noticed.
It's like with music. Before computers etc. existed, only artists who played an instrument could make it. Today DJs earn millions, more or less without instruments
That may depend on the demands of the audience.
It also doesn’t hurt any DJ if he masters an instrument or can read music.
Someone who masters his craft as a talent is always better than one who just shows up with something.
I recently visited my architect. He’s really not bad. Of course, I drilled him if he was currently planning something particularly nice. There was nothing hand-drawn. Everything on the computer. Dual monitors and another one beside. Funny enough, the calculations were done by hand...
I assume that he also worked with hand sketches in his first years. As an expert, he of course eventually knows that the staircase must have at least 3.50 meters on one side so that a bedroom wardrobe can fit upstairs. A completely inexperienced layman is already out at that point... first arranges the dimensioned utility room with a passage door to the garage before reconsidering the practicality of the staircase’s position.
With totally free house designs (which are becoming rarer), you are wrong to start work with a tool.
Nowadays, most houses only need a standard design digitally adapted...
Then the client comes and evaluates the quality of the architects via the 3D program, which initially impressed the customer and nowadays is even demanded.
Yes, it has to be - see focus of architecture studies.
I don't see the difference between drawing and working on the computer. You have to learn distances, shapes, etc. just as by hand. On the contrary - you have to be able to do it on the computer anyway, so why not learn it properly right away?
By "learning properly," I still mean the craft... hand + craft.
You yourself have zero comprehension. Where did I claim that changing media is not helpful? Nowhere... I said,
1. that here it is required to do your job right the first time, because time is money.
2. Wasting paper for every little thing is a no-go in 2018! For 10-15 years, a paperless office has been pursued!
Finally, I ask, if you criticize my posts, please don’t invent things I didn’t say! That would be a topic of failure in German class = grade 6.
Regards
Language level 6. Take a seat!
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Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to use my architecture software for 2 years due to missing hardware. As is well known, I switched to graph paper and pencil. For the sketches here, i.e., ideas, a super-fast tool — the sketch is done with small corrections (eraser) in 10 minutes and uploaded.
In that time, the computer has just started up... at least approximately.
And yes, I often notice that TEs then mentally have trouble visualizing the drawing properly in 3D. What is seen or valued are rather program drawings, like those Katja posts here.
For 3D: a tool is helpful then. But only when the sketch is somewhat more mature so that the effort is worthwhile... and please not by total laymen who then overlook the errors, as I mentioned above.
I find this sweet tralala program impossible. Not because I have worked with it, but because the drafts TEs post here from the program never work. Usually, way too much is stuffed into a house rectangle so that it doesn’t function.
Therefore, I reject it for laymen.
Good programs, which cost some money, can support more experienced clients in details.
So: apples and oranges...
I will also buy "my" program again at the end of this year because it has been my hobby for 30 years and I master both this program and making sketches by hand.
Whether the TE here sees where the errors are when transferring his hand drawing into a program, I don’t believe... to get back on topic.