LABORATORIO DI DISEGNO E RILIEVO DELL'ARCHITETTURA M - Z

This course continues the didactic path started in the previous learning experience of descriptive geometry. It is structured in such a way that the student can perceive more consciously that the exercise of the representation does not just means knowing how to draw in a sheet of paper the shape of an object, but it involves continuous search of the mental-visual condition to better understand the deeper organizational space structure. It cannot be well represented without understanding the underlying rules. To this end, the course aims to provide the theoretical notions and basic practices to better understand and represent the architectural and urban space.

Close attention is payed to the relief, understood as knowledge and relational interpretation - which brings together heterogeneity, things recognized and composed in the mind of the researcher - and as a critical-cognitive process, investigating the architectural, urban and archaeological object from a geometric point of view, by identifying relationships with context and history.

Qualifications that signify completion of the second cycle are awarded to students who:

1. have demonstrated knowledge and understanding that is founded upon and extends and/or enhances that typically associated with the first cycle, and that provides a basis or opportunity for originality in developing and/or applying ideas, often within a research context;

2. can apply their knowledge and understanding, and problem solving abilities in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their field of study;

3. have the ability to integrate knowledge and handle complexity, and formulate judgments with incomplete or limited information, but that include reflecting on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments;

4. can communicate their conclusions, and the knowledge and rationale underpinning these, to specialist and non-specialist audiences clearly and unambiguously;

5. have the learning skills to allow them to continue to study in a manner that may be largely selfdirected or autonomous.

The skills acquired can be applied in the field of quality management in civil and service sector organizations, in accordance with the objectives of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The Architecture Drawing and Surveying Laboratory course is structured around lectures, classroom exercises, and practical activities in the field to gain surveying experience. Each student must be equipped with the tools for traditional and digital geometric drawing. Each classroom session will consist of a theoretical lecture followed by exercises on the topics covered in the lecture. During the sessions, corrections and educational interviews will be conducted in order to assess individual learning progress and support personal motivation. The final surveying exercise will be accompanied by supplementary lessons on the use of current surveying tools (TLS and UAV).

The course aims to teach the students the knowledge of Drawing and Survey of Architecture, through both frontal lessons and practice exercises. The theoretical foundations of the Architecture Design will be traced back to the identification of the genesis of form.

The use of three-dimensional models leads to a representation method based on continuous verification.

The theoretical part is articulated in lessons about the methods of representation and the conventions of the architectural design. Whereas, practical exercises include reading and redesigning contemporary architectural objects.

The Architecture Survey Module provides students with the cultural tools to properly tackle the definition of a methodological approach to survey. It focuses the attention to the operational aspects of the survey, interpreted as an essential tool for investigating and understanding historical buildings, both during the pre-existing stage and the building phase.

The course includes two different parts: frontal lessons about the general approach of an architectural survey, and practice exercises, through a direct observation experience conducted by students gathered in groups on historical architecture. The frontal lessons regard the issues and techniques of survey and the graphic restitution.

During the course, it is essential to collaborate with the Laboratory of Representation that provides the advanced instrumentation, allowing students to gradually acquire autonomous and critical knowledge of the surveying tools.

The examination consists of a discussion of the exercises carried out during the course and the graphic works produced on the topics of the lectures assessed according to the following criteria: Knowledge of content; Clarity of exposition; Completeness of treatment; Mastery of the technical language codified; Graphic ability.

The oral presentation may be supplemented by ex tempore drawings.

Geometry of vaults. Perspective rendering. Rendering from photogram. Technical drawing and freehand drawing. Dimensioning systems. Graphic scales. Dimensioned projections. Sections with inclined planes. Homology.

Integration of surveying methods. Methods and tools for planimetric surveying. Surveying by trilateration and triangulation. Closed polygon: purpose and execution. Closed trilateration: purpose and execution. Surveying curved planimetric sections. Rendering at various representation scales. Instrumental surveying. Photogrammetry. Photographic rectification. Thematic maps. Archaeological surveying. Surveying degradation.