70211 - Architectural Drawing and Graphic Analysis

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, students acquire the knowledge to analyze, to decompose and to represent the complexity and articulation of an architectural project. Through the knowledge gained, students can then use the drawing as a graphic language aimed at study, analysis and presentation of the creative process of architectural design and they will be able to define its development till its implementation phase.The architectural drawing imeant as a graphic language aimed at the study, analysis and production of the architectural project, from its conception to its execution.

Course contents

Scientific-disciplinary contents of the course will concern the representation of architecture and environment as a cognitive and communicative medium in relation to the topological, figurative and formal structure of architectural and urban reality. It will be carried out an assessment of its effectiveness as a tool for the preliminary analysis of the existing context and of the overall message of planning. It is foreseen the explanation of the features of Design seen as a global tool of communication and as a graphic language applied to the communication of the planning process, from its conception to its execution, as a tool for the functional, geometric and spatial analysis of buildings and as an approach to the communication of building systems: representation and forms of elements and materials for architecture.

Theoretical and methodological contents of the course will be communicated by means of classroom lessons integrated with seminars and practices.

Practices will consist of graphic activities on the themes chosen by every single student and by groups of students and are aimed at deepening and experimenting the contents of lessons and seminars. Some individual tables will be developed aiming at documenting experiences of planning representations about themes linked to the History of Architecture.

Readings/Bibliography

Apollonio F.I., Architettura in 3D. Modelli digitali per i sistemi cognitivi, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2012

Gaiani M. (a cura di), La rappresentazione riconfigurata, Edizioni POLI.design, Milano, 2006

Docci M., Maestri D., Gaiani M., Scienza del disegno, CittàStudi, (collana Architettura), Novara, 2011

Migliari R.(a cura di), Disegno come modello, Kappa, Roma, 2004

Migliari R., Geometria descrittiva – Volume I – Metodi e costruzioni, CittàSutdi Edizioni, Novara, 2009

Migliari R., Geometria descrittiva – Volume II – Tecniche e applicazioni, CittàSutdi Edizioni, Novara, 2009

Albisinni P., De Carlo L. (a cura di), Architettura. Disegno. Modello. Verso un archivio digitale dell'opera di maestri del XX secolo, Gangemi, Roma, 2011

De Carlo L. (a cura di), Informatica e fondamenti scientifici della rappresentazione, Gangemi, Roma, 2007

Teaching methods

The course is organized in cycles of frontal theoretical lessons (held in a traditional classroom), a series of application exercises / individual or group work in the laboratory (carried out in the laboratory Cad, laboratory LaMoViDA or teaching laboratory), aimed at developing a digital presentation of the hypothetical reconstruction of a project of architecture or architecture no longer existing.

The theoretical and methodological contents of the Course will be communicated through frontal theoretical lessons and seminars, supplemented by exercises aimed at deepening and experimenting with the contents presented during the lessons and seminars.

The course includes a series of individual and/or group activities of different nature.

1_ Analysis and critical reading of an architecture project never realized or of an architecture that no longer exists;
2_ Definition of the semantic structure of the model that will represent the reconstructive hypothesis of the case study;
3_ Production of the 3D digital model of the case study, based on the semantic structure defined in point 2.
4_ Production of the digital rendering images starting from the 3D model realized in point 3.
5_ Production of some summary works, in A1 format, the number of which will be agreed upon by the individual student and/or group with the teacher during the same exercises.

These products and elaborated, produced individually and/or by the group, have the objective of developing in the students the communicative capacity through the production of synthetic digital images and in the appropriate use of the techniques of production of digital images starting from 3D models.

Assessment methods

A In order to be admitted to the exam, the student must have produced:

1 - Digital 3D model relating to the hypothesis of reconstruction of the case study, structured semantically, as indicated in the section 'Teaching methods'.
2 - Digital mesh model and relative library of materials/shaders adopted to restore the surface and material characteristics of the case study;
3 - Synthesis tables, in A1 format, the number of which will be agreed by the individual student and/or group with the teacher during the exercises;
4 - Descriptive report of the case study and of the procedure adopted for the purposes of the reconstructive hypothesis adopted.

In the absence of the above mentioned papers (see section 'Teaching methods') the student will not be able to take the profit test.
To take the exam it is necessary to register through Almaesami, in compliance with the deadlines.

The verification of learning takes place through the presentation and discussion of the elaborate/products exposed in points 1-4 in the section 'Teaching methods'.

The assessment is graded according to the student's ability to expose and put into practice the knowledge expected. The complete lack of a competence will result in failure to pass the exam.

Evaluation criteria and related weights for the final evaluation:

A - Level of analytical and critical analysis applied to the production of the 3D digital model, relating to the reconstructive hypothesis of the case study (20% of the total evaluation);
B - Quality and technical characteristics of the digital mesh model and the relative library of materials/shaders adopted to restore the surface and material characteristics of the case study (20% of the overall evaluation);
C - Quality and technical characteristics of the summary tables [UNI A1 format] (50% of the overall evaluation);
D - Level of analytical and critical analysis applied to the Descriptive report of the case study and of the procedure adopted for the purposes of the reconstructive hypothesis adopted (10% of the overall evaluation.

The achievement by the student of an organic vision of the topics addressed in the lesson together with their critical use, the application of methods and techniques typical of the graphic language (see skills acquired during the course DESIGN OF ARCHITECTURE I (C.I.) - I year), the demonstration of possession of a mastery in the use of technologies for the production of digital products (3D and 2D) and the use of an appropriate language and specific will be evaluated with marks of excellence.

The mostly mechanical application of the methodologies and techniques presented in the lesson, the ability to analyze and criticize not articulated, the application of the techniques of representation in a manner not always appropriate, the use of a correct language, but not always appropriate, will lead to discreet evaluations.

Technical skills related to the production of limited digital products, limited analytical and critical skills, the application of inappropriate representation techniques, the use of inappropriate language - albeit in a context of minimal knowledge of the exam topics - will lead to grades that do not exceed sufficiency.

Shortcomings in technical skills related to the production of both 3d and 2D digital products, gaps in analytical and critical skills, gaps in the application of representation techniques, the use of an inappropriate language will lead to a negative evaluation.

Teaching tools

Materials, presentations, handouts in the e-learning platform will be made available to students.

The didactic activity will make use of the Cad Laboratory and the LaMoViDA Laboratory.

Office hours

See the website of Fabrizio Ivan Apollonio

See the website of Federico Fallavollita