SPATIAL DEPTH CUES
In an elevation drawing, we try to establish three pictorial zones: the
foreground space between thesection cut andthe facade of t he
building; the middleground t hat t he building itself occupies; and the
background of sky, landscape, or structures beyondthebuilding.
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perspective, we can delineate the
material and texture of surfaces more
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• Sharpness and clarity of detail focus
attention on the parts of the building
that areclosest to the picture plane.
• We draw t he contours of more distant
form and surfaces intheb
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