Architectural Drawing Course | Site Plan Essentials
Want to master the art of creating professional architectural site plans? Whether you're an architecture student, a practicing architect, or a designer looking to improve your site plan presentation skills, this course will teach you everything you need to know. From structuring your drawing layers to adding textures and entourage, this comprehensive tutorial will transform your workflow and elevate your architectural visuals.
- 2+ hours of premium content
- 5 step-by-step video lessons
- Future updates included
About this course
A site plan is a critical part of any architectural project, showing how a building fits within its environment. It includes property boundaries, landscaping, roads, pathways, and surrounding structures, helping to communicate your design clearly to clients, planners, and stakeholders. This course will walk you through every step of the process, ensuring you create precise, visually appealing site plans that enhance your architectural presentations.
This specialized site plan course develops your expertise in creating compelling architectural presentations that effectively communicate building-to-site relationships. Through comprehensive exploration of composition principles and digital enhancement techniques, you'll master the art of transforming technical drawings into powerful visual communications.
The curriculum emphasizes advanced Photoshop compositing techniques that elevate site plans from purely technical documentation to compelling architectural presentations. You'll learn texture application, entourage integration, and graphic refinement strategies that maintain technical accuracy while achieving visual impact.
Advanced presentation techniques include layer organization strategies, drawing setup methodologies, and professional enhancement workflows that serve multiple purposes from client presentations to planning submissions. The course covers both technical accuracy requirements and visual communication principles.
These specialized skills position you to create site plans that distinguish your architectural presentations in competitive markets where compelling visual communication can determine project success and client satisfaction.
What will you learn?
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This course will turn you into:
A site plan composition expert
Master the art of creating compelling site plans that effectively communicate building-to-site relationships. Learn layer organization, drawing setup, and composition techniques that present architectural projects within their environmental context with clarity and visual impact.
A digital presentation specialist
Develop expertise in Photoshop-based compositing and enhancement techniques that transform technical drawings into compelling architectural presentations. Learn texture application, entourage integration, and graphic refinement strategies that elevate site plans to professional presentation quality.
A visual communication professional
Gain skills in creating site plans that serve multiple purposes from technical documentation to client presentations and planning submissions. Learn to balance technical accuracy with visual appeal while maintaining the clarity needed for professional architectural practice.
Syllabus
A site plan is more than just a technical drawing—it's a crucial tool that defines how a building integrates into its surroundings. In this lesson, we'll explore the purpose of site plans, their role in architectural documentation, and how they communicate essential details like orientation, boundaries, and contextual relationships.
Mastering drawing layers is key to producing clear and compelling site plans. In this lesson, we'll explore how to organize your project model or working drawings to efficiently export the necessary layers for your final composition.
Bringing all the elements together is where your site plan truly comes to life. In this lesson, we'll dive into the compositing process using Photoshop—though the workflow can be adapted for Illustrator or other graphics software.
Textures bring depth and realism to your site plan, helping to communicate materiality and context effectively. In this lesson, we'll explore how to create and apply custom textures in Photoshop, going beyond the default library to develop high-quality patterns suited for architectural visualization.
The final touches can transform a technical drawing into a compelling architectural presentation. In this lesson, we'll enhance our site plan with entourage—adding trees, vegetation, and people to bring life and context to the design.
Meet your instructor
Radu Fulgheci
Architect
BDP
Hi, I'm Radu. I'm an architect with over ten years of experience using many architectural design and modelling applications, for both professional and academic purposes. Working on challenging, high-profile projects, and international competitions, I've continually sought ways to optimise my workflow, from single to multiple applications, in order to achieve the best results in the shortest time.
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