The sector is interested in the scientific and didactic-training activity concerning the representation of architecture, the city and the environment, in its broadest sense as a means of knowledge of the laws that govern the formal structure, as a tool for the analysis of values existing, expressive act and visual communication of the design idea to the different scalar dimensions
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Learning Objectives - Last names N-Z
The exercises are aimed at training and verifying the ability of each individual student to perform:
1. Freehand drawing of an environment during and after direct observation - reading of the geometries and proportional relationships between its parts.
2. Representation and graphic interpretation of environment and architecture
3. Graphic representations of designed spaces.
4. Graphic rendering, according to the methods of representation of the descriptive geometry of an existing architectural organism.
Prerequisites - Last names N-Z
there are no prerequisites
Teaching Methods - Last names N-Z
The laboratory activity will mainly take place in presence according to active-operative methods: theoretical communications will be followed by practical drawing activities in which the student will be called personally to confront the representation of the different architectural elements and with the different representation techniques treated. Moments of brainstorming will serve to develop the critical skills of the individual students, thus stimulated to learn to learn through comparison. Mediation by the teacher will serve to ensure the acquisition of the correct judgment parameters.
Further information - Last names N-Z
For more details on the course notebooks and exam tables, see Annex A
Type of Assessment - Last names N-Z
On the scheduled exam dates, students must:
- Present themselves at the roll call equipped with the necessary tools to carry out the graphic test ex tempore (the test will be aimed at verifying the student's ability to correctly and objectively represent an architectural element observed live.
The ability to report in a proportionate way the dimensions of the object observed, the right use of the representation codes, and the ability to discretize a complex architectural element (cross vaults, rib vaults, stairs, roofs) in wood, etc.);
- Deliver to the teacher the papers developed during the course: course notebooks and tables.
In this case, the individual growth path of each student, the expressive skills matured and the ability to use all the graphic and representation techniques studied (including the use of classical or digital representation tools) will be evaluated
Students who achieve a sufficient assessment (in the afternoon of the same day or on another date to be agreed based on the number of students enrolled in the exam) will have access to the oral assessment.
Here each student will have to demonstrate the knowledge of the theoretical basis of the graphic representation contained in the program. Mastery of the topics covered will be assessed; the ability to think critically about the study carried out; quality of the exposure; competence in the use of specialized vocabulary, effectiveness, linearity).
Course program - Last names N-Z
Contents
"The sector is interested in the scientific and didactic-training activity concerning the representation of architecture, the city and the environment, in its broadest meaning as a means of knowledge of the laws that govern the formal structure, as a tool for the analysis of existing values, of expressive act and of visual communication of the design idea to the different scalar dimensions. It also studies the scientific foundations of design, computer modeling, virtual representation and reverse modeling, their theories and methods, both innovative and in their historical development; the survey as an instrument of knowledge of the architectural, urban and environmental reality, its direct and instrumental methodologies up to the most advanced, its procedures and techniques, including digital ones, of metric, morphological and thematic restitution; drawing as a graphic, infographic and multimedia language, applied to the design process from the formation of the idea to its executive definition ".
(MIUR, Declaration of the disciplinary scientific sector: 08 / E1 DRAWING)
Topics covered
Architecture design
The lessons will take place according to two parallel lines: the first is aimed at focusing on the problems of the method for the analysis and reading of the values of the observed space, the second tends to develop the knowledge of graphic means for description and representation. In particular, the topics will be covered:
Drawing as an expressive code and an instrument of interpretation; The graphic representation of the architecture, functions and evolution; Manual and instrumental graphic techniques; The representation of the constitutive elements of architecture; The representation of the space of architecture. Notes on visual perception and image composition.
Automatic drawing
The lessons are intended to provide students with the fundamental notions necessary for the digital representation of architecture. The educational path also intends to highlight the substantial methodological similarities between the discipline of computerized design and those of traditional design and geometric representation.
Notes on digital geometries. Two and three dimensional vector representation systems. Bitmap representation systems. Solid systems and systems for polygonal surfaces. Processes for two and three-dimensional drawing. Graphic processing of the image. Geometric transformations of the image. Graphic communication tools.
The lessons will take place with the aid of a computer using different programs in order to obtain an architectural design that meets the standards.
Cad programs, image processing and layout programs will be used.
Elements of Descriptive Geometry
The lessons aim to offer a theoretical basis of the principles of projective representation and a basis on the knowledge of Platonic solids and their constructive properties. The geometric concept of conical and cylindrical projections will have to be acquired with particular attention to the principle of one-to-one correspondence between plans, elevations and sections according to Monge's theory of projections. It is understood that these rules must be acquired as a grammar of architectural design and as preparatory to subsequent drawing courses in which they will be studied in depth.