Metal Fence Construction Drawings

Whilst back at my home I had a look around my garden to see if there was anything interesting to use in my construction drawings notebook.

After look around I thought a metal Fence would be a good thing to draw. The fence was made by a local blacksmith and is inspired by a reclaimed gate that my dad found in a customer's garden near Lytham Hall and we think it may be one of the old estate gates for the Hall. 

I drew the fence to scale, measuring it with a tape measure however I did change some parts to improve the design. A part I like alot was the Lancashire Rose in the center of the cross.

Paving - plan and section

After drawing some paving bond patterns I then decided to do a section, to show the materials beneath the paving. I used Landscape Detailing volume 2 by Michael Littlewood to help sketch this. 

First I drew the plan view of basic stack bond layed concrete pavers. After drawing this I could then extrude the lines of the grid id created upwards to project an accurate section view of Pedestrian paving.

I found using a red pencil to make construction lines really helped as they are very faint and can be rubbed out after. 

Plan View Paving Bonds

To remind myself of some of the bonds I learnt towards the begging of uni I decided to practise drawing scale examples of paving bonds. The patterns I drew all use 200x100x50mm concrete blocks.

This is one of the trickiest drawings I've done to scale, mainly due to the repetitive and sometimes complex brick patterns. The best way I found to draw them quickly was to mark every 10mm on each edge of a square and then create a grid in pencil which I could then draw the bond pattern over in pen.