LABORATORIO DI RAPPRESENTAZIONE E GEOMETRIA DESCRITTIVA A - L

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Edoardo DOTTO
Credit Value: 12
Scientific field: ICAR/17 - Drawing
Laboratories: 144 hours
Term / Semester: One-year
ENGLISH VERSION

Learning Objectives

The Laboratory of Representation and Descriptive Geometry aims to involve each student in understanding the basic mechanisms of the subject, to the point of rendering the practice of the imagination of three-dimensional objects represented on a two-dimensional support natural. The applications that will be proposed, even with the targeted use of three-dimensional modeling software, have in fact the objective, in constituting a basic theoretical support, to develop in the students a clear mental vision of the three-dimensional space.

The constant, conscious and assiduous exercise is the only means to reach this goal and for this reason a condition of total immersion in the graphic practice is expected.

The course aims to lead students to:

- be able to apply their knowledge, comprehension skills and ability to solve problems in new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to their field of study;
- acquire the ability to integrate knowledge and manage complexity, as well as to make judgments based on limited or incomplete information, including reflection on social and ethical responsibilities related to the application of their knowledge and judgments;
- know how to communicate their conclusions, as well as the underlying knowledge and rationale, clearly and unambiguously, to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors;
- develop learning skills that allow them to continue to study mostly in a self-directed or autonomous way.


Course Structure

Teaching in Laboratory of Representation and Descriptive Geometry will take place mainly in the classroom. Each student must be provided with the tools for geometric drawing. Frontal lessons and drawing exercises, researches and applications will alternate in a dense and continuous manner. During the exercises there will be corrections and didactic talks in order to verify the progress of individual learning and support personal motivations. There are some outdoor drawing exercises both freehand and geometric, on large supports. Some integrative activities will allow a basic approach to CAD drawing softwares.


Detailed Course Content

Drawing represents the elective instrument of architecture and has always been the means through which design thinking unfolds.

With the certainty that the practice of architecture must be based in the first place on a clear knowledge of the technical and conceptual tools of traditional drawing, for training purposes, for the first months the use of computer-assisted drawing is excluded, which instead will only concern the central and final part of the course. In any case, the use of manual techniques and elementary materials will be essential: paper, cardboard, pencils, colored pastels, watercolors, compasses, erasers, rulers and squares. The acquisition of a basic technique and refined manual skills will allow you to appreciate and use the tools offered by modern technology in the best possible way, with full awareness.

The topics covered are the following:

Introduction to drawing: technical and theoretical tools of drawing; the functions of the drawing; general information on methods of representation.

Elementary constructions and their applications: elementary geometric constructions; harmonic relationships; geometric patterns and patterns; fundamentals of graphic analysis.

Introduction to architectural drawing: reduction stairs; main graphic conventions; plans, elevations, sections; representation of an architectural project in scale 1:50 and in scale 1: 100.

Outline of projective geometry: projection and section; projectivity, perspective, homology.

Monge projections: reference model; representation of geometric entities, flat and solid figures; sections with projecting planes inclined with respect to the reference planes, overturning, true shape and size.

Perspective: vertical and horizontal framework perspective: reference model and representation of geometric entities, flat and solid figures; measuring points.

Axonometry: reference model and representation of geometric entities, flat and solid figures; oblique and orthogonal projections; trace triangle; normalized triples.

Shadow theory: shadows in Monge's projections, axonometry, perspective.


Textbook Information

1) G. Spadafora, Fondamenti e applicazioni di geometria descrittiva. Le proiezioni parallele. Principi teorici e applicazioni, Milano 2019.

2) E. Dotto, Il disegno degli ovali armonici, Catania 2002.

3) E. Dotto, Costruzioni geometriche. 60 esercizi di tracciamento con la riga ed il compasso, Siracusa 2007.

4) E. Dotto, Introduzione all’analisi grafica. Una nota didattica, Siracusa 2008.

5) E. Dotto, La sinagoga di Hurva di L. I. Kahn. Analisi grafica, Roma 2012.

6) L. Quaroni, Progettare un edificio. Otto lezioni di architettura, Milano 1977, in particolare la lezione sesta, La geometria dell’architettura, pp. 146-194.

7) V. Ugo, Fondamenti della rappresentazione architettonica, Bologna 1994.

Other bibliographical references will be provided during the course, in relation to the contents of in-depth lessons on the studied topics.