Introduction to Blender for Architecture
The most beginner-friendly course to get you started fast for using Blender for architectural design
Comprehensive Learning Package: Your Architectural Design Journey Begins Here
Welcome to our Introduction to Blender for Architectural Design course, guided by Dimitar – a seasoned architect with over a decade of professional experience using Blender. Whether you're an architect, student, or 3D artist, this course will empower you to harness Blender's capabilities for architectural innovation.
Course Outline: Introduction to Blender for Architectural Design
In this introductory mini course, you'll learn how to use Blender for architectural design while designing a multi-storey residential building. Throughout the process, you'll gain insights into the following topics:
- ● Creating architecture massings and mastering mesh geometry editing techniques.
- ● Generating multi-floor buildings efficiently using modifiers for quick iterations.
- ● Procedurally creating internal walls to enhance your architectural design process.
- ● Utilizing Blender's annotation tools to easily sketch and annotate within the 3D viewport.
- ● Designing facades that allow for flexible design changes.
- ● Exploring rendering basics to generate hidden line images for effective presentations.
What's Included:
● Video Lessons: Engage with expertly crafted video lessons that guide you through using Blender for architectural design. Dimitar's guidance ensures a clear understanding of every technique and concept.
● Enlightening Presentation: Gain insights into Blender's impact on architectural design through an exclusive presentation. Witness real-world projects brought to life with Blender, showcasing its creative potential.
● Course Community: Join our interactive community of passionate learners. Collaborate on projects, exchange ideas, and connect with fellow students, enhancing your learning experience.
● Live Instructor Interaction: Interact with Dimitar during live sessions. Receive real-time answers to your questions, personalized guidance, and tap into his wealth of experience.
Course Benefits: What You'll Learn
By completing this course, you'll develop a solid foundation in several key areas:
- ● Concept Architecture Models: Learn to create concept architectural models using Blender's powerful tools.
- ● Procedural Workflows: Understand time-saving and user-friendly procedural workflows that streamline your design process.
- ● 3D Sketching: Gain confidence in using Blender's annotation tools to sketch and visualize your ideas directly in the 3D viewport.
- ● Effective Presentation: Acquire skills to present your concept work effectively, showcasing your design vision to others.
Join Dimitar and fellow enthusiasts on this transformative journey. By the end of this course, you'll be equipped to create stunning architectural concepts, optimize your workflow, and communicate your ideas with confidence.
Course Curriculum
Meet your Instructor
Dimitar presenting at Blender Conference in Amsterdam.
Sketching design ideas in his studio for projects and courses
Mixed use project for which Dimitar was responsible currently under construction.
Dimitar Pouchnikov
Dimitar is an experienced architect, designer, and educator with over 13 years professional experience. He is driven by the desire to create beautiful spaces, buildings, and cities that work excellently for all users. His design philosophy is based on creating beautiful architecture through the intersection of design, creating a sense of place, and technology. This philosophy drives both his professional and academic research.
With most of his experience gained while working at distinguished architecture offices in London, Dimitar understands the architectural design process wholeheartedly. Having led teams as a project designer, he is aware how to communicate to both professionals and to clients successfully. He has and continues to communicate design visions confidently that manifest into beautiful and functional projects.
Dimitar knows that the proper architectural design process is demanding and rigorous, necessitating many revisions and parallel design explorations. He is grateful to have worked in teams that have taught him and enabled him to execute this proper design process - balancing beauty, function, user requirements, buildability, vision, and giving back.
Over the years, Dimitar has developed a balanced concept-driven design approach with industry-leading parametric design skills. Having the ability to move from a simple sketch to a complex 3d model quickly and effectively is an essential skill to move through design ideas efficiently. In this manner, finding the right mix of design ideas is achieved as quickly as possible, without wasting time redrawing or re-modelling unnecessary and repetitive steps. At the same time, parametric design enables inserting greater design intelligence into projects while reducing the effort required to document project parameters for construction.
Dimitar aims to work as much as possible with free, open-source, and non-subscription tools like Blender, Rhino, Grasshopper, and Affinity that allow professionals to have access to their drawings and designs without the need to rent their software just to access previous designs.
Blender is an essential part of Dimitar’s software design toolkit and he is on a mission to show as many architects and designers its key strategic advantages. He shows various use cases on the UH Studio Design Academy youtube channel, teaches numerous courses through UHSDA, and frequently collaborates with the industry’s leading education platforms like PA Academy, Futurly, Dezact and others. Dimitar also speaks at international conferences about the advantages of using Blender as a design tool.
Professionally, Dimitar has worked on many typologies, ranging from Cultural, Commercial, Residential, Urban Design, Sport, Entertainment, Masterplanning, and High-rise/mega-tall buildings. Among others, he has worked at HOK and Adjaye Associates in London.
Dimitar holds a postgraduate M.Arch degree from the Architectural Association, Design Research Lab Programme and a 5 year professional B.Arch degree from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in Philadelphia.
Dimitar learned Maya at the DRL programme at the AA and realised that everything that Zaha designers were teaching us with Maya can be done with Blender, and even more! After graduating, he transferred over his newly acquired Maya design skills to Blender and has been further expanding them since.
