Let's Design A Beach House: An Interactive Architecture Activity Book For Kids | Series | Book 1 | Location: Malibu, California (Let's Design A House)
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2022
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- Let's Design A Beach House: An Interactive Architecture Activity Book For Kids | Series | Book 1 | Location: Malibu, California (Let's Design A House)
- Author
- Publishing, Square Root of Squid
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798839433946
- Series
- Book 1 of 14: Let's Design A House
HELP WANTED:
Architect Adventurer Albert B. Squid needs your help to design a house for some new clients. His schedule is out of control and he needs you to help him come up with a design from scratch. If you take on the job, you will be working as Squid’s partner and together will come up with a concept from the clients' needs, combined with the unique site location details. Under Squid’s guidance you will draw concept sketches, a floor plan layout, elevation & cross-section drawings, perspective drawings, and finally, build an actual model with pre-sized cut-out model pieces and instructions from Squid.
ABOUT The Let’s Design A House Series
Prolific Architect Adventurer, Albert B. Squid, has designed a series of interactive architect role-playing books to introduce kids to conceptual design and creating a house from working with fictitious clients and their needs to learning how the site can also affect its design. Each house in the book series is in a different (real) location in the world, which comes with real coordinates that can be found online to get a better feel for the site. Not only that but there is a section of each book in the series that gives the history and facts about the particular site that will influence the overall design. Kids will work along with the drawings as Squid guides them along the design path of creating a house from an original concept to the final house design adding their own ideas along the way.
WHAT WILL BE LEARNED?
Conceptual design of a house
How to think spatially
House design inception
Working with clients
Working with a particular location
Facts and history of the building location
How to manifest a floor plan from the concept
How to manifest elevations from the floor plan
How to manifest sections from the elevations
How scale affects the design
How to render a house elevation
How to draw-in shading
How to draw a two-point perspective
How to build a 3D paper model of the house
INCLUDED:
Client house order form
Actual site location coordinates
All About Site Location page
Our House Design sketch area
Generating a concept explanation
Floor plan list page
Scale exercise
Floor plan dimension generator
Picking materials page
Elevation drawing templates
Cross-Section drawing templates
Rendering templates
Two-point perspective drawing lesson
Perspective drawing practice sheets
House orientation map
3D paper model pre-sized cut-out house pieces
Model building instructions
A second set of extra model pieces
Cut-out Pickle Prize for Architecture Award
Extra bonus material online link including FREE audiobook
Architect Adventurer Albert B. Squid needs your help to design a house for some new clients. His schedule is out of control and he needs you to help him come up with a design from scratch. If you take on the job, you will be working as Squid’s partner and together will come up with a concept from the clients' needs, combined with the unique site location details. Under Squid’s guidance you will draw concept sketches, a floor plan layout, elevation & cross-section drawings, perspective drawings, and finally, build an actual model with pre-sized cut-out model pieces and instructions from Squid.
ABOUT The Let’s Design A House Series
Prolific Architect Adventurer, Albert B. Squid, has designed a series of interactive architect role-playing books to introduce kids to conceptual design and creating a house from working with fictitious clients and their needs to learning how the site can also affect its design. Each house in the book series is in a different (real) location in the world, which comes with real coordinates that can be found online to get a better feel for the site. Not only that but there is a section of each book in the series that gives the history and facts about the particular site that will influence the overall design. Kids will work along with the drawings as Squid guides them along the design path of creating a house from an original concept to the final house design adding their own ideas along the way.
WHAT WILL BE LEARNED?
Conceptual design of a house
How to think spatially
House design inception
Working with clients
Working with a particular location
Facts and history of the building location
How to manifest a floor plan from the concept
How to manifest elevations from the floor plan
How to manifest sections from the elevations
How scale affects the design
How to render a house elevation
How to draw-in shading
How to draw a two-point perspective
How to build a 3D paper model of the house
INCLUDED:
Client house order form
Actual site location coordinates
All About Site Location page
Our House Design sketch area
Generating a concept explanation
Floor plan list page
Scale exercise
Floor plan dimension generator
Picking materials page
Elevation drawing templates
Cross-Section drawing templates
Rendering templates
Two-point perspective drawing lesson
Perspective drawing practice sheets
House orientation map
3D paper model pre-sized cut-out house pieces
Model building instructions
A second set of extra model pieces
Cut-out Pickle Prize for Architecture Award
Extra bonus material online link including FREE audiobook
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