9 Architect Tools to Push All Projects Forward
A soldier can’t fight war without his weapons, and it is also true for architects, they can’t present their ideas and designs without proper tools.
An architect is a person who is on a journey to take inspiration and put it down on his drawing board initially. Sometimes it's challenging, but it gives ultimate pleasure when he sees his design in the form of bricks.
Here are Some Tools for Architects to drive them Through Process
1. Imagination
Without any imagination and vision, an architect can’t go on a drawing board and start working. He needs inspiration from the outside world and previous projects either for home or landscaping designs to make his present project best.
2. Stationary
Now he required basic architect tools to begin his journey to draw a perfect design. An ‘L’ shaped desk with 22’ big 36” to work comfortably.
Next come, measuring tools include triangular scales & compasses, a calculator, and drafting dots. Set of architectural pens of high quality, cutting tools such as precision knives and straight edges.
3. Laser Distance Meter
A laser distance meter is a device that helps in measuring distance very easily. It has remarkable accuracy with fast measurement to save the time of an architect. Some meters also give smart features to calculate area and volume based on measured length, width & height.
4. An iPad
An architect needs an iPad to share his ideas and project details with all colleagues at work and clients whom he is working for. It is like an assistant that connects all important people from office staff to social media architect forums.
5. High Resolution Camera
After putting all the thousands of words into a blueprint, now he must capture it with a high-resolution camera to send it to his client. A high-quality camera helps an architect to capture the project model with clear images of small details.
6. Drawing Storage Tubes
All the hours of day and night an architect put into drawing the blueprint of the product. It’s time to store and secure all his efforts in the drawing storage tube.
7. Tea or Coffee
A person who is working day & night and to keep pushing all the projects forward, he needs tea or coffee. Nowadays, these things are getting popular on an architect's desk.
8. A Large Squared Notebook
A notebook is a requirement for an architect so he can write or draw every single small detail important to the project. It will help him to do calculations, write thoughts before he hits the drawing board.
9. Architectural model
An Architecture model is not only a physical representation of a structure, but it also allows people to engage with the design and contribute to it, as pointed out by the Top Architects in New Delhi event.
To make this cardboard model amazing, there should be perfect accuracy of angles, lines need to be straight and all small metrics which affect the design.
