DRAWING AND REPRESENTATION

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

AI701

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in BUILDING ENGINEERING

Moduls:

DRAWING AND REPRESENTATION 1 - 6 credits
DRAWING AND REPRESENTATION 2 - 6 credits

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Cycle:

Single Annual Cycle

Hours of classroom activity:

120

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of the three geometric models. Drawing cognitions and fundamental periods of European history. Familiarity with the technical use of computers and notions of automatic drawing.

Objectives

The Drawing is a training discipline oriented to the communication of graphic thinking in progress, applied to the project and to the analysis of the built. To achieve these objectives, students will be directed towards the theoretical and practical tools necessary to understand, measure, design and represent architectural space through theoretical principles and explanatory methods.
The various theoretical-operative components form the basis of the graphic-visual representation of the existing and the project.

Contents

The Course of Drawing and Representation (12 cfu), belonging to the SSD ICAR 17, is the foundation and support of the disciplines in which representation for the built and for the project constitute the means of communication, for this reason it is placed between the training disciplines of the first year. The course consists essentially of three integrated parts: Descriptive Geometry, Architectural Survey, Topography. The first 60-hour module will be carried out by prof. Pasquale Tunzi, in the first half, the second 60-hour module by prof. Caterina Palestini, the second half, and Basic Topography.
Descriptive Geometry and technical main topics:
1) Rules for technical drawing
2) Dimensioned plane method
3) Double Orthogonal Projections
4) Axonometry
5) Perspective
6) Shadows

Architectural Survey
main topics of the course:
1) Direct and instrumental detection methodologies
2) Tracking project organized according to the purposes
3) Acquisition of metric and qualitative data
4) Representation
5) Graphic analysis
6) Three-dimensional study models

Basic Topography

Extended Syllabus

The course of Drawing and Representation consists of lectures and theoretical exercises of Descriptive Geometry, aid to technical representation, and similar theoretical communications and operational exercises on the Surveying of architecture. The aim of the Course is to provide students with the appropriate tools for an appropriate representation of the existing and what can be conceived, with the help of the three main geometric models that result, by convention, those applied in the representation of the built and the environment. The practical exercises to be developed in the classroom will have a counterpart, at home, that the students will have to carry out and deliver periodically to the teacher. These are flanked by three final tables, in relation to the three geometric models, which will have as their subject a building of Contemporary Architecture of the last forty years agreed with the teacher.
The main theoretical topics of the lessons of Descriptive Geometry are: Double orthogonal projections; Assonometries; Perspectives; Shadows. It will also examine level of practical skills, codes and standards to be applied to the drawing of the existing and the project, in order to make students understand the value of the technical representation, both traditional, handmade, and computer, through the use of reduction scales.
Reference text: M. Docci, R. Migliari, Scienza della Rappresentazione. Fundamentals and Applications of Descriptive Geometry, NIS, Rome 1992.
During the course of the Descriptive Geometry part, students will be asked individually, at three different times in the cycle, to verify their theoretical knowledge.
The part of Surveying Architecture, integrated with that of Descriptive Geometry, deals with issues relating to the knowledge of the characteristics of historical architecture, through the procedures and methods of measurement and the consequent graphic restitution. In retracing back the design process, the surveying operations allow to represent critically the different aspects of an architectural organism, from the geometric-spatial, dimensional, morphological, technical-constructive, material, historical, stratigraphic, etc., point of view. The operating process is carried out using a methodology essentially divided into three phases: a) historical-conscious analysis; b) mental relevance; c) graphic restitution.
There will be theoretical lessons and exercises that will be developed through graphs (sketches, notes, photographs, drawings, etc..) and will constitute examination material.
The hours carried out in the classroom are followed by hours to be used at home for the development of a group work (consisting of 2 to max 4 members) focused on a subject to be agreed with the teacher. This work will be developed in a series of tables in which the degree of knowledge of the subject will be shown.
The basic topics of the second part are: the methodologies of direct and instrumental detection; the use of the most recent three-dimensional photogrammetric acquisition systems and 3D laser scanners; the preparation of a conscious surveying project organized according to the aims, followed by graphical returns to scale, thematic representations and graphical analysis carried out with the help of three-dimensional study models.
Reference texts: M. Docci, D. Maestri, Manuale di rilevamento architettonico ed urbano, Laterza, Bari 2009; E. Ippoliti, Rilevare, ed. Kappa, Roma 2000; C. Palestini, La rappresentazione tra progetto e rilievo, ed. Gangemi, Roma 2008.
Within this part a short form of Topography will be developed, whose topics are: Trigonometry, Geodesy, Measurement theory, Planimetric survey. The acquisition of the knowledge of Topography will be checked immediately at the end of the form by means of an examination with a vote that will average with that of the final exam.
Reference texts: Topography dispenses with related texts.
To better address the different parts of the Course, students are advised to equip themselves with material and tools to carry out the graphic elaborations that will be collected in a folder. All the materials produced must undergo periodic revision, in order to improve them and to allow the student a greater awareness of the representative methods, and will be delivered to the final interview. Also for the materials produced within the Architectural Survey module there will be periodic reviews with progressive advances and corrections of the graphic drawings that will be delivered together with the year theme, in paper format and on digital support, at the final interview. The latter will consist in the verification of the theoretical knowledge related to Descriptive Geometry and Architectural Survey, that is in the critical explanation of the presented materials, and the votes of both will make media with that of the Topography interview.

Recommended Bibliography

M. Docci, R. Migliari, Scienza della rappresentazione. Fondamenti e applicazioni della geometria descrittiva, NIS, Roma 1992.
M. Docci, D. Maestri, Manuale di rilevamento architettonico ed urbano, Laterza, Bari 2009.
E. Ippoliti, Rilevare, ed. Kappa, Roma 2000.
C. Palestini, La rappresentazione tra progetto e rilievo, ed. Gangemi, Roma 2008.
Dispense di Topografia (a cura di P. Di Cesare)

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Lessons will be held with the aid of slides, and exercises that students will develop individually in the classroom with the help of traditional tools and computers. The materials produced (sketches, notes, photographs, drawings, modeling, technical tables, etc.) will constitute, together with those produced at home, exam support. It will therefore be essential to subject them to periodic verification by the teachers to be finally delivered to the examination in the double format (paper and digital). To the lessons in the classroom are added the time to be used at home for the development of three geometric tables whose subject, to be agreed with the teacher, is generally a building of contemporary architecture.
The Survey part is organized in a didactic method divided into modules, consisting of frontal lessons, exercises and thematic workshops. Each lesson is set by a theoretical-methodological introduction of the professor who explains the topics and provides the references, techniques and methods to be used, expanded by the information available in the materials provided in the classroom and by references to multimedia and web sites. At the end of each workshop the students must arrive at a synthesis of the topics dealt with and then find a definition through a final thematic study to be carried out autonomously.
Students divided into groups of 2 to 4 people, will also have to develop a study theme, agreed and elaborated under the guidance of the teacher, which summarizes the overall knowledge acquired in the course.
The Topography lessons will be held in the classroom and with the help of technical tools for understanding the basic principles.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The final evaluation will consist in the overall verification of the theoretical knowledge related to the Descriptive Geometry, to the Survey of the Architecture and to the notions of Topography, from which will derive the final grade obtained from the average of the single assessments.
In the Descriptive Geometry module, during the lessons, three tests are necessary to understand the level of learning of theoretical issues. In addition, the dates of delivery of three tables will be set for the three models of Geometry applied to a building of contemporary architecture designed by a master of architecture over the last 40 years.
There are also weekly meetings to review the products and resolve doubts on theoretical issues. For each contact there is the site: https://elearning.unich.it/course/view.php?id=142 .
The learning assessment of the Architecture Detection module is based on the average of the assessments acquired by the student regarding: exercises performed; elaboration of the theme of the year object of the workshop; individual oral test on topics developed during the cycle of lessons, in order to define the right evaluation weight of the graphic and theoretical learning. Students who do not perform a sufficient number of exercises will have to take a supplementary graphic test to be admitted to the oral test.

Contacts/More Information

Students should be provided with all the materials and tools necessary to follow the lessons and carry out the exercises, as well as the final work.
Towards the middle of the course a module of Topography (10 hours) will be inserted, necessary to understand the morphological and environmental aspects in which to intervene. The topography module will end with an examination that the students will have to undergo before facing the final verification.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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