DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY

Segment

Course Sheet

Course code:

AI634

Academic Year of enrolment:

2022

Year of supply:

2022/2023

Divisions:

Gruppo A

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of Single Cycle Degree 5 years in ARCHITECTURE

Disciplinary Sector:

Design

Is part of:

DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

TUNZI Pasquale

Cycle:

First semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

100

Individual study hours:

150

Prerequisites:

Elementary knowledge of the three basic geometric models. Knowledge of Drawing and fundamental periods of western history. Familiarity with the use of the computer and automatic drawing rudiments.

Objectives

Knowledge and understanding of:
1. Basic concepts of drawing (both freehand and with the use of equipment)
2. Scientific fundamentals in the context of architectural representation

The teaching aims to approach manual drawing and the exercise of the technical design. In the first case, the drawing from the reality is contemplated (the perceptual act and graphic translation), while the other concerns the application procedures that derive from the theoretical principles of Descriptive Geometry. The four aforementioned classic models will therefore be addressed, considered in the field of the history of Architectural Representation and according to the subsequent teachings relating to architectural detection and project drawing. The latter will apply the technical procedures and standards that guide the executive documents according to the official indications. Among the further objectives of the teaching we mention the study of Elementary Geometry and the Theory of Shadows with applications. In addition, the digital design will face through the use of some software that will allow you to approach an alternative way to the traditional graphic representation.

Contents

Teaching aims to learn the scientific foundations of representation, namely the study of the theory and applications of Descriptive Geometry, with particular reference to its 4 traditional methods - orthogonal projections, axonometric projections, perspectives, quoted projections -, considered within the History of Architectural Representation and according to the teachings relating to architectural detection and project drawing.
The further objectives of teaching includes the study of Elementary Geometry and Shadow theory.

Extended Syllabus

The "architecture drawing area" includes those disciplines inherent in the ICAR 17 SSD 17 drawing. In the disciplinary organization of the degree in Architecture they are distributed in the first three years to converge the 5th year in the degree laboratory "Project Conservation and Representation" (20 CFU). The course in the epigraph is made up of the integration of three modules: Descriptive Geometry, History of Representation, and Digital Design.
The first module is based on the disciplines of the graphic-visual representation, and is basically for all the others in which the drawing is the means of expressive and communicative of visual thinking in Architecture. Him study offers the tools, procedures and methods of representation both to develop the project from scratch and for the knowledge and documentation of the existing.
The second module (5 hours) offers the student the opportunity to orient themselves in the different graphic expressions produced in the architectural field, over time and in western culture, including Mediterranean, to understand its evolution and meaning. It is necessary to face the evolutionary aspect of visual communication, filtered through the Geometric models, in order to make the student aware of the potential of representation.
The third module introduces the student to digital representation, through the use of software dedicated to technical drawing, modeling, photo editing and visual representation.

Descriptive Geometry
This module is the load -bearing nucleus of the entire course, therefore it is carried out in eight hours per week dedicated to the theoretical aspects of projective geometry. The study of scientific principles and methods will allow students to appropriate geometric models and to be able to manage them in areas where the representation of the architectural space both real and ideal is required. Descriptive Geometry is for the architect the indispensable medium to understand the existing space and to view ideas by developing analog and digital representations.
_ Summary of the topics
1) the elements of the technical drawing (conventional signs, stairs of representation)
2) Geometric bodies and fundamental operations (construction of elementary figures)
3) The model of cylindrical projections: the Double Orthogonal Projections (also with inclined plans) 4) The model of cylindrical projections: the Axonometries (orthogonal and oblique)
5) The model of the conical projections: the Prospective (front and corner)
6) The theory of shadows (in D.O.P, Assonometry, Perspective)
7) The digital design of simple architecture.
8) Graphic-visual representations throughout western history.
9) Life drawing of buildings.

The aforementioned topics will be applied by students on exercises which, together with those to be developed at home weekly (a plate for each topic made with the teams and pencil on cardboard A3), will be organized in a personal portfolio and delivered to the exam in paper format A3 and on digital support. At the end of the lessons of each of the three models, the students will be called to verify what has been hired, through graphic-theoric exercises, bearing in mind that the respective assessments support the final interview.
Moreover, three plates will be presented on the three models applied to a contemporary architecture building, agreed with the professor of Architectural Composition 1. Of this building, plants, prospects and sections with graphic scale and two misured plates will have to be created, a D.O.P., an Assonometry with shadows and a Perspective with shadows. For the success of the examination, weekly reviews of the documents and clarifications on the theoretical parts will be available. The contact between the teacher and the learner, as well as by e -mail, also takes place through the University website: http://elearning.unich.it/course/view.php?id=141
and the Microsoft Teams platform.

History of Representation
It should be noted that this course is coordinated with those of Architectural Composition 1 and Materials and Design of Construction Elements. In addition, there will also be interventions of the teacher of Architecture History 1 for further insights.
The best understanding of the representative models can be obtained by knowing the ways of viewing architecture and the city given by the various cultures. The Representation History module deals with the different aspects of graphic language (methods, techniques, symbolic and iconic values, etc.) in the historical evolution of the communication of the project. The representations of the masters of architecture will be read in a critical way, to make the student aware of the codes of the representation of the methods and techniques used. All this leads to understanding the semantic, semiological and paradigmatic value of the representation in its socio-cultural context, and to consider aesthetic evolution in relation to the expressive needs of a given moment. In this regard, the exercise on the field of the perception of space is necessary, with sketches from the reality that allow you to use the hand and the eye in the transcription of the visible.
The student will have to close his experience on representation with an illustrated critical Tesina whose theme relates to the subject of study agreed for the graphic processing of the project plates.

Digital Drawing
The digital drawing module introduces the pupil to the info-graphic representation, through the use of software dedicated to the technical design, modeling, photo editing and visual representation. This form will be developed on the theoretical and practical level to allow a more current one graphic-visual communication of the representation of architecture, in order to facilitate the understanding of the space aspects of the construction. The exercise with some software will be aid for the performance of the final plates of the architecture building in D.O.P., Axonometry and Perspective.

_Bibliography of reference
R. Migliari, Geometria dei modelli, Kappa, Roma 2003.
R. Migliari, Geometria Descrittiva, 2 voll., CittàStudi, Novara 2009.
M. Docci, R. Migliari, Scienza della rappresentazione. Fondamenti e applicazioni della geometria descrittiva, NIS, Roma 1992.
AA.VV., Architettura moderna. L'avventura delle idee 1750-1980, a cura di V. Magnago Lampugnani, Electa, Milano 1985
L. Sacchi, L'idea di rappresentazione, Kappa, Roma 1994
A. De Rosa, A. Sgrosso. A. Giordano, La Geometria nell’immagine, UTET, Torino, 2002.
The aforementioned bibliography may be integrated.

Method of examination The final interview is the synthesis of the theoretical and practical preparation accrued by the student during the course of Descriptive Geometry 1A. We remember the students that all the documents produced in each setting and moment of the course will have to be presented to the aforementioned interview, on which the comparison will be based.

Recommended Bibliography

R. Migliari, Geometria dei modelli, Kappa, Roma 2003.
M. Docci, R. Migliari, Scienza della rappresentazione. Fondamenti e applicazioni della geometria descrittiva, NIS, Roma 1992.
G. Spadafora, Fondamenti e applicazioni di Geometria Descrittiva, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2019.
These texts may be supplemented as necessary during the course.

Teaching Methods

The topics of Descriptive Geometry, developed in ten hours per week, between frontal lessons and graphic applications to be carried out in the classroom, will be ascertained by the students through exercises to be carried out weekly at home, and will be part of a personal portfolio to be delivered to the exam. For the best outcome of the latter, weekly reviews of the documents will be set. Every week there will be an hour dedicated to Digital Drawing with related exercises. Every two weeks, for an hour, will face the reading of historical images with communications accompanied by illustrations on examples of important and which constitute a reference for the representation. The contact between the teacher and the learner, as well as by e -mail, also takes place through the University website: http://elearning.unich.it/course/view.php?id=141
and the Microsoft Teams platform.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

At the end of the lessons of each of the geometric models, the students will be called to verify what has been learn, through graphic-theoric exercises, bearing in mind that the respective assessments will constitute the average of the final vote. The exam will be presented three plates focused on the three models (D.O.P., Assonometries, perspectives) applied to a contemporary architecture home building, agreed with the professor of Architectural Composition 1. Of this building, the plans, elevations and sections with the graphic scale must be drawn; then the aforementioned panels must be made digitally. The deepening of use of scale of representation and the employ of the materials of which the project is made will be carried out with the teacher of Materials. A critical report illustrated on the forms of graphic communication by these adopted, and the digital presentation before the closure of the course is asked about the work of the author of the project. A part of the materials produced will be commented by the student at the time of the exam established on official dates from the appropriate university site, to which the student will have to enroll in time.

Contacts/More Information

Students are required by a minimum equipment of elementary tools for manual drawing and the use of the computer to follow lessons and carry out the technical plates of the exercises. All the documents produced in the course, duly overhauled, must be presented at the final interview, in the digital and paper formats A3. It should be borne in mind that the Descriptive Geometry course is coordinated with those of Architectural Composition 1 and with Materials and Design of Construction Elements. There will also be interventions by the teacher of History of Architecture 1 to deepen the knowledge of the theme of residence.
The division of enrolled students between course A and course B is done by freshman number: even-numbered freshmen belong to the first course, odd-numbered freshmen to the second.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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