@archademia: Five ways to sharpen your concept design skills 👇 Sketch loads, and let them be rough. Don’t polish anything early. Grab a cheap sketchbook and bang out twenty tiny thumbnails before you commit to anything. You’re fishing for the idea at this stage, so quantity beats neatness every time. Start with one clear idea about how the building works, not what it looks like. This is your parti. A spine with rooms hanging off it, a scheme wrapped around a courtyard, the spaces you live in kept separate from the ducts and stairs. If you can say it in a sentence and draw it in a few lines, you’ve got one. If you can’t, you’ve just got a shape you’re fond of. Design in section, not just plan. Plan’s the easy one to reach for, so everyone lives there. But the good stuff, the light, the volume, the ceiling heights, how you move up through a space, all of that lives in section. Sort the section early and the plan tends to follow. Let the constraints paint the picture. Don’t turn up with a form and force it onto the site. Read the site and the brief first, the view, the orientation, the level change, how the client actually lives, and let all that push the form into shape. Work this way and the building feels inevitable, because it’s just the answer to what the site was already asking. Steal the thinking, not the look. Keep a reference library, but dig into why a building works rather than copying how it looks. Pull out the principle, then use it on a completely different problem. If you only hammer one, make it the parti. Most weak concepts are just that missing idea hiding under a nice render. Which one do you lean on most in your own process?

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