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1. Course Overview: Hi, everyone. I'm Moshe Katz and welcome to Intuitive
sketching for Architecture. Have you ever felt stuck trying to sketch that perfect idea? In this course, we're throwing perfection out of the
window and learning about something way more exciting sketching
from your intuition. This is about letting
go of the rules and discovering how your
imagination can lead the way. No stress, no overthinking. Just you your pencil and
the freedom to explore. Imagine sketching without
worrying about making mistakes. Every line, every shape
becomes an adventure revealing unexpected ideas and spaces you never thought before. That's the beauty of
intuitive sketching. It's not just a technique. It's a way to tap into your creativity and see
where it takes you. In this course, I'll
guide you through practical exercises that I designed to help you relax
your hand and your mind. It'll capture the mood
and spirit of spaces, experiment with
playful techniques, and learn how to let your ideas flow
naturally onto the page. Together, we look at
real life examples and discover how
intuitive sketching can transform your
spontaneous thoughts into designs full of
character and emotion. I developed this
approach by working with artists,
psychologists, painters, and writers, and I
crafted a process that's inspiring but
also very practical. This isn't about theory, but it's rooted in
real life practice. So if you're ready to have fun and find your creative flow, let's get started with intuitive sketching
for architecture. Mm. A
2. Reality is just a recommendation: Hi, everyone, and welcome to the Intuitive Sketching
course for Architects. I'm Osha Kat, and thank
you very much for joining. This is lesson number one. Reality is just a
recommendation. Now, before we start going to the core and the
heart of this course, I would like to address some of most important key elements that help us go through the
journey towards intuition. If we like to connect
with our intuition and be able to act
as a result of that, it is very important that
we change our awareness. The awareness is the way
we perceive our reality, the way we interpret it, and the way we act
in our reality. Since we all live
our everyday lives with the same habits
and the same actions, for us to reach the
intuitive level, it is important for us to do some changes to go
beyond those limits. I call it reality is
just a recommendation. So once we tune in into that belief that everything around us is just
a recommendation, we can easily change it. It's just a flexible idea of different things
that we perceive. But we can always think of it through a different angle and through a
different perspective. So even though you see
different fields in this course like art,
sculpture, fashion, or any other field,
ask yourself, how can this image or how can this field be connected
to architecture? How is this architecture for me? Once you do that, you start
to believe that everything is an inspiration or
everything can be the starting point for the understanding of
architectural space. So if you see a shoe, for example, think about it. How can this be a building? So instead of the
leaves and vegetables, what if this was a building, a tower that is made of all of these green fields and
facades and so on? So I stop looking at the reality
in front of me as it is. I perceive it as a recommendation
to look at it from the perspective of an architect and connect it to my
field of expertise. I would like to read for you
a passage from Reiner Rilke, a poet that influenced
me a lot in my journey and my way of looking at
architecture and design. He said, If your daily
life seems poor, do not blame it. Blame yourself. Tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call
forth its riches. For the creator, there is no poverty and no poor
indifferent place. What that actually
means for us as designers and architects
that everything around us has a hidden beauty and that it is our
responsibility as designers and visionaries
and architects to see all of that beauty hidden
behind everything around us. Which means we have to change our perspective, our awareness. A shoe is not a shoe anymore. We look for its hidden beauty, it's hidden secrets that we are supposed to discover
as if we were poets. So normal people look at reality and they see
the same things. But poets look at reality and
they see a certain depth, they see a different beauty. They see some wonder that
they would like to describe. So this is what I'm asking
from you at this stage, with this course to take everything with a sense
of recommendation. Now, when we speak about
intuition, ask yourself, is your life a result of your intuitive voice or is it
more a result of a reason? This is very important for
us to analyze ourselves and understand how much are
we connected to intuition? Is our life a problem
that we need to solve, or do we consider our life as a wonder that we are
discovering each day? So what is actually intuition? Intuition is not just about making art or being a designer. It's how you observe the world, how you interpret the world, and how you act as
a result of that, how you act in the world. It happens through
a connection to a non rational or non logical
knowledge within you. It is your inner voice. It is a feeling that you sense so strongly and it
has no reason whatsoever. It has nothing to do
with intelligence. It has nothing to do
with how smart you are. It is only connected to a higher knowledge that comes to you and you
perceive it as truth. You feel it through the senses, you have the
feelings within you. You have all the mechanisms to recognize when this
voice is active, and we will learn about that. But it's all about finding new possibilities in
your everyday life. So how do you activate that intuition in
your everyday life? First of all, intuition comes
as a result of observation. So look at things around you
with a sense of surprise, wait to be surprised, try to figure out how you can
look at everything through a different angle and understand some secret
that lies underneath. Look at things through your sensibilities
and sensitivities, through your feelings, through the energy that you
feel from them. Don't consider them
as a scientist that needs to analyze a problem
and then solve it. Consider it as a
poet that wants to see beyond the object
in front of him. Perceive it with a
sense of wonder, stay in tune and be
open to be surprised. Then once you observe things, try to interpret them
in a different way. Try to find the
hidden meanings and signs beyond everything
that you see. These signs express
the feelings and the senses that work within you. Once you see a certain object, you try to figure out the signs behind that object and give
it a certain expression. You extract the values of
the things that you see. So for example, in this image, you see a giraffe and a man painting the
stripes of the giraffe, but the stripes is the
language of the animal itself. It is almost the defining
character of the animal. So this language of those
lines can be interpreted as its essence of being and then used as a starting
point for a design. You start recognize those signs, you see them developing,
changing, modifying, and then you interpret them in a different
way than they were perceived as being
just a texture on top of an animal's skin. It's as if you know what
the sign is dreaming to be. So you give it a presence. You imagine what
are those lines on top of the giraffe
dreaming to be? And this is when they leave the animal and they start
having a life of their own. And as a last thing,
it's the actions. How do we act in
our everyday life? What are the patterns
of our actions? How do we use intuition
to change those patterns? So once we are inspired and
we see beyond the objects, this is when our actions become different than
what we're used to. This is when intuition comes
into play and changes and materializes everything
that we know now into concrete things. Now, pay attention. Intuition
is not always a big thing. Sometimes it's very
small and delicate, and the actions are
small, as well. The act that bases on intuition is an act
of faith and trust. We trust ourselves. We trust that inner voice. We trust that higher knowledge that wants to tell
something through us, and we take that role as being a bridge
between dimensions. So let's do a very quick intuitive exercise
just to warm up. Take a photo of
something around you, an object, a situation,
something on the floor, whatever you see on
your walls, coffee cup, anything around you that you perceive and
take a photo of it, a close up photo. As a second stage, try to look at it and put
some signs like small signs on top
of the cellar phone. You can draw with your finger. Just do some signs
as if there were small people next
to that object. This is when the object
stops to be whatever it is, a coffee cup stops
to be a coffee cup, and now it becomes a building or a space where small people
are standing next to it. Try to add some small trees or some small
elements that give it a realism feeling
and now analyze the object through the eye of an architect
and designer that sees a different structure and a different potential
within that object. What building do you discover? What structure do you discover? What new potential do you see in that object that you
haven't seen a moment ago? This awareness change, this sense of reality is
just a recommendation. A coffee cup is just a coffee
cup for recommendation. It could be an airplane,
it could be a building, it could be a city, it could be anything that
you would like it to be. So whatever you perceive is just a flexible fact
that can be changed. And now let's use it
as architects to see how can we extract a certain structure or
a building out of it. Let's do this exercise and
see what you discover.
3. Intuitive exercises: Hi, everyone. This is lesson
number ten, Exercises. So in this lesson, I've prepared for you some
of the most fun, interesting and beautiful
exercises to connect with your intuition and to do that as a part of your sketch
process for architecture. The intuitive exercises
are very important. They help us connect with the right state
of mind and bring out most of the
potentials that we have stored within us. I'll
go through it with you. You'll see some examples
and some visuals. Feel free to take it
and transform it or translate it into your own tools and ways of doing things. But I assure you that these
exercises will open up a beautiful opportunity to connect with your intuition and bring amazing
potentials out of you. The first exercise is the quick architectural
sketches of one to 3 minutes. When you sketch models, there's usually the moment where you have these
quick sketches, one or 2 minutes sketches
for different positions. It's the same thing
with architecture. Now you're limited in time. You have only one to 3 minutes to create something on paper, and you just do
these quick sketches of architectural references, models, ideas, structures,
whatever comes into your mind. So focus only on capturing
the essence of the form. Just do an idea or a vision of a structure without
overthinking what it is. It doesn't matter at this point. You're just bringing out
whatever you can on paper. And you have sessions
of one to 3 minutes. So time yourself and
make sure that you're doing it very quickly and
in the frame of that time. Second exercise is
a beautiful collage that I'm doing a lot
with my cell phone. So I'm downloading and saving different images that I feel are inspirational and
very interesting. So what I do, I use some of the simple apps that
I have on my phone, which create image collages. So I take two or three images. One image is an architectural
space or structure, and another image comes from a different
field altogether. In this case, it's pastry. So both of them are
my biggest passions. I like to eat pastry, and I am in love
with architecture. So I just put them together and they create the most
amazing images that give a very interesting view on what architecture can
be if you take it away from its own field and introduce another
discipline into it. So two images become one new image that is
created of both parts. So you try to figure
out where are the connective points,
what goes together? What can create a
nice combination of structures and still maintain
the idea of architecture. If you want to go
one step forward, you can draw with your finger on top of the screen some
people and trees and just give it a real feeling
of a person standing inside that magnificent
visionary structure. Maybe this way, you'll learn how pastry can change your
architectural vision. The next exercise
is the Sufi sketch. The Sufi sketch is based on
the idea of a Sufi dancer. Usually these dancers,
they try to maintain a certain sense of
stability of a center, and through that
center, they rotate. They twirl around themselves
in a constant motion, 360 degrees going faster and faster and faster and
faster around themselves. So this is what I ask
from you to stand in the middle of a room and
then go with the Sufi dance, the Sufi movement, and you start slowly to find your
stable center. And then as you go, you
become more fast and fast and fast until you really lose all your
thoughts and minds, you are into the
flow of movement. This is the energy that
you're filled with, not what you think,
but how you move. And then after a while, when you feel that it's
already powerful within you, you stop at one moment,
you don't move. You go down to your canvas either on the floor
or on the wall, and then you draw the
fastest sketches that come out of you out
of that moment. Because in that moment
where you don't think, whatever is left within
you is the movement, is the strength of the energy
that rises from within you. And this is the expression
that we are looking for. You can do it at once in
one swoop in one layer, but you can repeat that
and do the sketch in two or three different movements and layers, one on
top of the other. And every time you could use a different tool or
a method to draw. Bobby. Another exercise is the word to sketch expression. So you clear your mind and write the first three words
or feelings that come to you. You write them down next to you, and for each word, you find a representation
or line, volume, a shape, something that represents that feeling
that you wrote next to you. What I recommend is if
you have three words, take the first letter and write the letter in big
signs on top of the paper. And then the next word, take the first letter and
write it next to it, as well. So you'll have this
continuation of three letters, huge signs and symbols, and they stop being letters, they start being
architectural structures. What if that is
actually a building? From that moment, this is
where you start developing it and continue sketching
into the depth of that. It is just a trigger. It's just a first
stage in your sketch. So you just create
the conditions to continue into the understanding
of the structure. The next exercise is the
bubble fields exercise. So this is super fun. You just take your soap and water and put it together and just start
creating your bubbles. The more bubbles you do,
just try to be quick. You're blowing air and
wind into the soap, and the bubbles come out. So once they come out,
they create a field of different bubbles
on your surface, if it's the floor or in the air or if it's on a chair
or whatever it is. Try to take pictures of that field that is
filled with bubbles. Try to recognize the
structure of it. How do they connect
to each other? What are the reflections? What is the geometry, the textures, everything that you can learn from
a field of bubbles. And you take that as
a starting point of your sketch to create your
structure of bubbles. The next exercise is to sketch the transition between
chaos and the void. So you pass from
chaos to silence to a moment of a starting point
of a bloom of a new space. So you have to interpret
both concepts. The first one is the chaos. How do you see a
sketch of a chaos, the movement of size
and that order or dis order of things different
layers one atop the other. How do you create a chaos? Out of that chaos, you should show the transition how that space and sketch slowly develops on the other side of the paper into
silence and a bloom. So how do you interpret silence? What is a silent sketch for you? How does it look like? And
the most important thing is the space in between, how does it look when you translate the
chaos into silence? What happens in the middle
in that in between spaces, how do you define them
and show the transitions? This exercise shows us and allows us to work with
abstract concepts, but it also shows
our connection, our own connection
to those words. And every creation comes from the dialogue between
chaos and the silence. So for passing from
this order to order, this is usually what artist and the creation is all about. So how is your
interpretation of that? And again, whatever you sketch, try to put some people inside, some natural elements and try to figure out what kind of
a space that you create. Next exercise is
sketching cracks. So imagine you walk on
the street and you see a huge crack in the pavement or you see a huge
crack on the wall. Take a picture of that or
take a transparent paper and put on top of the crack and make that a space in itself. The crack becomes a
whole world in itself. And in there, you're supposed to find your
secret architecture. How does it look like? When it starts from an existing crack, how does that world and architecture take
shape from within? The next exercise is
the smiling space. One of my favorite exercises. I came as a result of a research that I did with
200 children in Italy, when I designed the project
for the House of Curiosity. It's an elementary school. And one of the most
beautiful insights that I had from the
students and the children is that they are very excited to come to a space
that smiles to them. What I understood through
it is the need of people to see spaces
that show emotions. So imagine you have to
create a structure or a space that gives a smile.
How would it look like? So take a generic space or some old project that
you have designed and transform it to be a space that smiles to
children and people. Express it with very
quick sketches, just so you feel if this is the right feeling and put some
small figures in trees and just try to identify
with the figures and see how does it feel
standing next to the space? If it's not good enough,
just smile harder. The next exercise is
the candle exercise. It's one of the most powerful
exercises if you light a candle and try to
focus on the flame. Look at the flame and
try to figure out the movement and the
dance of the flame, try to figure out the different layers
that the flame has. And I assure you it
has many layers. It's not just one. It's
not just one light. It has different lights. Try to look at it through
different filters. Try to recognize all the layers, how they connect to each other. What is the closest one? What is the biggest one? What is the extension of it? How do they move and where
do they try to examine a flame and make that the
beginning of your sketch. Try to give it signs and lines and shapes
and take that as a beginning point
of a sketch that eventually will become an
architectural structure. Ooh The next exercise is the sunset designer. So being a sunset
lover as myself, I usually don't miss
the daily sunset. I go every day to
the beach and take that beautiful energy and
transitions of the sky. So imagine you
have the privilege to be the designer
of the next sunset. You will be the one
to decide what will be the tomorrow's
picture in the sky. God gives you that possibility. Now you are sketching
and designing that beautiful sunset for other people to look
as inspiration. How does that look like? How is your sunset?
Try to sketch it. It could be black
and white, even, but try to give it as much
visual expression as possible. And most of all, see that you feel that sunset within you. The next exercise is
the secrets of mystery. So one of the most difficult and challenging things
in architecture is create a space that
speaks about mystery. How do you evoke mystery within people through
architecture? And this is what we're
going to do now. We're going to think of
what mystery is to you. What does it mean
to have a moment of mystery or an experience of
mystery? What is it made of? What are the components or the principles of that
moment of experience? Once you understand that, take those insights that you have about what mystery is to you. And bring it on as
a sketch on paper. What is the space
that will trigger the sense of mystery?
Try to show it. The next exercise is
the absurd is good. So usually we try to
avoid being absurd and surreal in our everyday life because we're connected
to realism so strongly. But in this sketch
and in this exercise, I would want you
to think a bit in an absurd way and surreal
way. Imagine you're a cat. And as a cat, you're
given the job of being the architects
of all cats. And as an architect cat, you're now designing the house of cats. Where do they live? What are the components
of that house? So you're taking all of your being and transform
it as being a cat. Now think of you as an
architect or designer and let yourself design and sketch
the house of the cats. The next exercise is
called born again. In this exercise, try to take a building or picture of
a space that you see. Imagine the origin
of that building, the moment of birth
of that building, the DNA, the moment of start. We did this building start from? Almost the womb of the building. So it's a work of imagination. Try to take the final product in front of you and take it back to the moment where
it was born before it created the whole
complexity that it is today. Try to imagine the first space, the DNA, the sign, the first line,
the first volume, the first thing that made this building become what it is. Now, you take that DNA and create your own
evolution with it. So the end result
would have to be different than what we see here in the image
in front of us. Instead of a building
that you have taken, we would have to see your
interpretation of that DNA and how does that develop into
a new building altogether? The next exercise is
the nature sketch. So to do that, you
would have to take some natural elements
like stones, leaves, anything you find
outside in nature, put them together
in a composition of your choice on top
of the canvas or paper. And these are the elements that are fixed on top of the paper. Now, your sketch is about
the spaces in between, in between the stones, and between the leaves, everything that exists in the voids between
those elements. So your sketch is the
connecting spaces and connecting structures that bring all these elements
together into one. The next exercise is
the Jibris sketch. The Jibrish is a language
which is invented. Nobody speaks that language. It's blabbering, basically
like children who invent blah, la, blah, say things
that make no sense. So imagine you have the privilege to
invent your language. Whatever language it
is, or try to speak a language that exists,
but you don't know it. If you don't know Japanese, try to speak Japanese even if you don't
understand anything. And then take these words and letters and phrases
or anything that comes from that flow
of speaking without sense and try to represent
it on the paper. Either try to find the symbols of the words or the letters, try to find the rhythm of the
phrases that you're saying, try to give an expression to that jibris coming out of you without any
sense or any logic. Once that is done, look
at it as structures. Take these signs, take the
things that you've sketched, and then put some
people inside and then try to figure out what kind of an architectural space came out of that imaginary language. It doesn't matter
which technique you use or which tool
everything goes. It's just about entering
into that flow. The next exercise is from
texture to architecture. In this exercise, we're going to look at different fabrics and threads as our language of
design and examine them, analyze them, and
bring them back to the most smallest and
detailed components of them. Try to see the threads,
try to see the stitches, the connecting points,
the texture of it. This is your beginning
stage of the sketch. You start with expressing
fabric as the beginning point. So you can either
sketch with fabrics and threads and create your
sketch with those materials, but you can also interpret them into your sketch on paper. But after you learned the characteristics
of those fabrics. The next sketch is the
tree house of dream. So the tree is a symbol where people used to sit under a tree and feel the freedom
of daydreaming. They could feel the
intimacy of sitting below a tree and being
wrapped from its leaves, beautiful colors and shades. So you are now designing a tree, a tree that allows you
to daydream underneath. How does your tree look like? This house of thoughts and daydreams, how
does it look like? And now sketch it, show it. What is the movement
that the tree has? What is the structure of the
tree? How does it extend? How does it look like when you create your own
space of daydream? The next exercise is
the finger sketching. So imagine you are now sketching an architectural space or
any object, but you do that. Instead of brushes and pens or pencils, you do
it with your fingers. So this is a fun, childish way of expressing architecture, but it's also
connecting you more to your senses of touch and
directly to the paper. So fill your hands with
colors and see what kind of an architectural
sketch comes out of it without the need to be
precise or accurate. This time, you can work
with different volumes and the smearing and the
different stains that are evolving and
expanding through your hands. Once you've done that, again, put some small figures
next to it and see what kind of an architectural
space you've created. The next sketch and exercise
is the house of silence. So try to stay for 5
minutes in a total silence. Close your eyes, don't
think of anything, and try to observe the
silent motion within you. How does it extend within you? What are the components
of silence within you? What does it make you feel? How do you change? What
do you experience? What do you sense? Where do
you sense it in your body? All of that is an insight
that you can take afterwards once
you're done after 5 minutes and bring it on paper. Try to sketch the
space of silence. The next exercise is
the lovely anarchist. So one of the conditions
of creativity is the moment of freedom that we allow ourselves
to be anarchist. What does it mean,
actually, to be anarchist? Is the moment where the
rules do not apply to you? So if you think that reality is just a recommendation and
it's open for our imagination to change and do and experience and transform
it as we wish to. So we basically have
no rules to follow. Try to take all the rules that apply to your reality
and change them. Invent your own rules
and conditions. Imagine a world without gravity. Imagine a world without colors. Everything is black and white, or the world is just pink. Imagine a rule that you make of your reality which
doesn't exist today. And you take it to
the extreme and you invent your
own reality rules. How does this look
like in a sketch? And how does this
architectural space look like when you design
it without those rules? The next exercise is
the shadow sketching. So choose shadows
that you see in different objects or places
in your house or outside. Take a transparent
paper and walk around and see how the sun
and the light comes in from different places or
the lamp and which shades does it create of
different objects. Put your paper on there and just sketch with a charcoal
or some kind of a material that gives you
extended stains and show the different shades on
different layers on your paper. This is the basic starting point of your architectural sketch. You start with
expressing shadows. This is then a trigger
to bring out from those volumes and those shapes the different spaces that
you recognize in them. And the last exercise
is the postcard sketch. Imagine you're traveling to
a city that doesn't exist. A city of your imagination. You invent it. You tell the story in your
mind of that city. I'm going to this
beautiful city. It has a name, and it
has a beautiful skyline. It has beautiful buildings,
whatever you imagine. Now you're sending a postcard from that place to
your relatives. You are now sketching
and designing that postcard with a
view of that city. How does it look like?
Imagine something that doesn't exist or
combine things that you've seen together
into one and try to be imaginative and
leave it abstract. Don't go into details. Just bring out a feeling of
a place with your sketch. Mmm. Mm. I hope you enjoyed learning
with me so far. I hope it opened up some
questions and curiosities. And now you can start experimenting and trying
out what you've learned. Don't forget to
dream with open eyes and see you in the next lesson.
4. Create your own visionary sketch: Hi, everyone, this is Lesson 28. Create your own
visionary sketching. So what I do to create my own visionary sketch is to think of everything
that inspires me, and I am very
inspired by nature. So I ask nature almost as if it is a real creature that
I communicate with. I ask it questions. So I usually ask what
do you dream to be? Or if I ask an object,
what is your home? So imagine you take a
tree and you ask a tree. What is your home? What is the space that you
need to feel at home? And then whatever the
tree answers within me, this intuitive answer within me, this is the beginning of my
architectural sketch and my intuitive sketch for this
fantasy or visionary space. So imagine a house
for a living stone. So what is the textures? What are the shapes
that it will use? What if you are now the
architect of stones, and they ask you to build a home for them?
How would it look? Or house for the dancing tree,
how would that look like? So imagine that starting to build up, and
once you sketch it, you are slowly getting into all these beautiful,
new expressions. These are your
visionary sketches. So if you seek ideas
from different fields, this is where your
sketch comes to life. So if you look at
nature, biology, astronomy, music, whatever
field interests you, and then you interpret it into an architectural structure, this is how you can create
new visionary sketches, but be careful not
to imitate them. It's the process of translation
and interpretation. So you take the general
form and shape and the understanding of how
it evolves as a feather, and then you take that delicate structure
and work with it, interpret it, change
it in some ways. So the end result is your
own vision of a feather, of an architectural feather. The dancing architecture,
imagine and think of a space or a
building as a performer. Imagine a building
could dance for you. What kind of harmonious
moves would it do? Ask it. Building, how would you
move if you were a dancer? What is your choreography? What is the energy, the rhythm, the fluidity that you would like to do? And then sketch it. Try to be inspired by that
transforming objects into living things and dancing things and see what kind
of a dance come out of it, and what can you use it for
as an architectural element. Imagine a natural object
like a tree or a stone. So take a stone and imagine
you are moving it now. You are transforming
it now by movement. So if you take a stone
and you twist it, you take all the layers of
this concentrated stone. And each layer now of this
stone is almost cut and creating its own movement of twirl and moving around itself, how would it then look like? What kind of a change of space and form would
it get if you move it? So let's see what the
stone can become, what kind of a building
can come out of it. Hi. I hope you enjoyed
the lesson so far. As you take a break and relax with a cup
of coffee or tea, I would like to share with you some insights from my book into creativity that I think would be useful for you
in your creative journey. Any creation is directly
influenced by intuition, which helps the creator unveil
the precious knowledge or research direction he needs to take to create something
new and original. Intuition is our radio device
connected to the universe, the world, nature, the people, and everything surrounding us. Intuition is the knowledge
that is not logical. It can be perceived through
tangible sensations. Instead, it is the wisdom that comes to us
through our senses. For most of our lives, we learned not to listen
to our inner voice, not to use it or
trust our intuition. We were taught to trust our
rational thoughts only. The ones that prove and
analyze the reality and the logical making of our decisions, things
we can control. That's why people detach slowly since their
childhood from the deepest, most intimate connection with themselves and
their surroundings. That's why it is crucial to find our inner voice and the connection to the
universe as creators. So we can find authenticity
in our work to feel that we can create from
within ourselves as artists. Intuition starts transmitting information like a radio station when you release the need to control situations with
your logical thinking. Your inner voice as a skilled DJ brings the message through you
until everything is clear. That flow of knowledge
can last a long time or some hours or sometimes maybe just a few
minutes or seconds, as long as we
maintain the balance and don't fall into
logical thinking. The flow in this
critical stage will continue if you can
surrender, trust it, and observe and document
everything that comes to you without judgment
or rational processing. Just be in the moment and
enjoy the discoveries.
5. Inspirations - sketch to AI: Everyone. This is
lesson number 31, inspirations from sketch to AI. In this lesson, I'm
going to show you some interesting
inspirations that I had and how I transform them into beautiful architectural spaces
through the usage of AI. I'm not going to focus
on the AI program, but I will focus on the
process that led me from intuition to inspiration to the final shape and form
of the architecture. I started with a
dynamic inspiration, a dynamic structure that I looked at a moment of explosion, a moment that is
for me personally, one of the most beautiful, frozen moments that I
could look at for hours. The moment that water drops fall into the water and create these new beautiful
dynamic shapes and structures in the water
and the ripple structures, the explosion, the depth that
is created through them. So I took that as
my inspiration. I looked at the main lines that are building my image
of inspiration. And we see the ripples. We have the depth in the center. We have the different drops
that are exploding into the different directions and have all these different sizes. I looked at it and created a very first conceptual
sketch with Power Point, as you see here in this example, just playing with some
very basic shapes and put some people in scale
and some trees in scale just to feel what kind of an architectural space has
come out of it and then transformed that into a building and an architectural
complex space. In this example here, let's
look at the flowing water, a beautiful image and a
beautiful moment in nature where we have these small
fountains and rivers that are flowing freely in between natural elements as
stones and creating these beautiful shapes and
transforming the rocks and the stones to be
something else because the stones itself is
a strong material, but when the water comes
with a certain current, it continues changing
the form of the stones. So we have the interrelations
between the current of the water and the stone that
is still changing its shape. I took that and created a very quick sketch
of those lines and elements and started thinking of what kind of an architecture
comes out of that. So instead of the stones, I imagine these stone pools. So each stone is this water still water element that allows
people to come and swim. So it's the static
element in architecture, and around that, you can do all these dynamic
things as well. We have the dynamic
structures which moves continuously in
between the water. And this is how I came up with the hotel idea and concept. I'm also inspired sometimes
by the human body. I like to look at
our own structure, our hand, our legs, our eyes. I am fascinated
by the human eye. It is such a beautiful
shape and form. As you see here, I took an image and started
playing with a sketch, trying to understand what is the main shape and form
that we see in our eyes. So we have the main
structure in the middle. But then slowly around that, things are expanding
and developing into a visual system of
things that are following almost a
beautiful motion. So that sketch turned out to
be a very fluid space and a circular rhythmical
architecture that is almost an inspiring city of light and gold and expressing the
symbols of the soul. So in the process of taking a sketch and turning
it into a AI, I always use my intuition
to understand what are the changes and what are the things that I
like to develop. So if I try to do one image, as you see here on the top, my intuition told me to take
that heart shaped building and create a whole complex of heart shaped
buildings around it. The intuition was to
expand and to express the heart structure more
vividly and more extensively. The intuition changed
my architectural design and forms that I created initially now are becoming
more complex forms. I do feel how strongly the intuition changes my
decisions, my logical decisions. So this is how I worked with AI. I hope you had fun and enjoy the insights and see
you in the next lesson. As we reach the end
of this course, I want to take a moment to
share something personal. I truly believe we
are all connected in this beautiful journey
of learning and growth. Even though I couldn't
meet you in person, I hope that through
my words, my energy, and the knowledge I've shared, you felt the care and intention I've poured
into this course. Everything I envisioned
while creating this, every tool, every insight, every bit of inspiration
was meant for you to help you grow in your journey of architecture and creativity. Even though we are not
together in the same room, I hope you felt it. I hope it reached you with the love and care
that went into it. My greatest wish is that this course gave you what
you were looking for, whether it was knowledge,
inspiration or even just a spark to ignite
something new within you. As we part away for now, I want to thank you for being
here for showing up for yourself and for trusting
me to guide you. So this is not the end.
I hope you'll join me on a new adventure in one of the other courses
on my platform. I've put a lot of effort to create courses that
are different and that will give you all the things
that I wish I got when I was a student and was craving for
inspiration and knowledge. Maybe you will have some
questions or want to say hi. Please do so through my website or my email that you
see on the screen. Keep dreaming, keep
creating and see you soon.