Visualizing what we want to build

Eighty Sixth Post: Visualizing what we want to build

I was recently talking to someone about bridges and they said that they cannot visualize a building in the place of trees where it is going to be built. So, they continued, they wouldn’t be good at design, engineering, or art.

This is a common opinion of those who haven’t been introduced to some sort of art or design. Most people can imagine what the building or design they want to see in there mind, but it doesn’t mean they can look at a hill and get a complete picture of where the building is going to look like as if it were already constructed. To do that the builder would have to be a virtuoso in design.

Mostly a design starts with the needs of the project. It is then calculated and drawn on paper. Most of us do not have the knowledge or training it takes to design a bridge, but the elements of design are the same for even simple projects. The designer will find that although they lack the training of bridge design everyone can picture the bridge in their mind. That is all that matters. That is were all designs start.