Champective

If there’s one activity I love doing in Planning and Designing structures in Architecture School, it’s drawing Perspectives.

I love looking at perspectives. My imagination works well by just looking at a drawing. The only problem I have is when I think of stuffs but couldn’t do it on paper. that sucks. But thanks to technology, AutoCAD, Revit, 3Ds Max, Photoshop and such, everything now in designing is possible.

I first learned to draw perspectives when I was in my Senior year in Highschool. Drafting subject. Aside from my parents, that short course I had influenced me to take up Architecture.

Graphics. Took this course when I was in my Freshman year in college. It’s a Drafting subject that exercises your skills with Isometrics drawings, Perspectives and Shadowings in Architectural Drawings. Graphics 101 (Isometric Drawings) was good since I had a very good professor, Architect Ong. But I didn’t learn enough from Graphics 102 (Perspectives and Shadowing) , under Architect Sityar, cos I had a hard time understanding him. 

Perspectives are not necessarily scaled all the time. All you have to consider is right proportions. That’s what you call CHAMPECTIVES. A very popular Pinoy term used by people of Architecture and Interior Designers. 

Champective- n. [cham-pek-tiv]

-Chamba/tiyamba + Perspective; Perspective with no scale; chambahan; perspective by estimation

Here are examples of Champectives by yours truly

Photos below are my esquisses for our plate this semester.

Mode: Freehand

Pangasinan Sports Complex: Business Center and Administration Building

Pangasinan Sports Complex: Athelete’s Dormitory

I know my drawings lack life. I suck at sketching landscapes and entourage. Those are my extra frustrations in life. I can’t graduate without mastering it. There’s a need for it. And because I admire manual presentations than those digital-ized. 

Anyway, I like the improvements I have over the past 2 years of being an Architecture student. Kaya pa yan. I know sooner or later, I can do way better than this. Im gonna defeat myself.