DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

AI634

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of Single Cycle Degree 5 years in ARCHITECTURE

Disciplinary Sector:

Design

Location:

PESCARA

Divisions:

Gruppo A - Professor: TUNZI Pasquale
Gruppo B - Professor: CAFFIO Giovanni

Credits:

Programme Year:

Cycle:

First semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

100

Individual study hours:

150

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of the three geometric models. Drawing cognitions and the fundamental periods of its western history. familiarity with the use of computers and the rudiments of automatic design.

Objectives

The objective of the course is to learn the scientific foundations of representation, ie the study of the theory and applications of Descriptive Geometry, with particular reference to its 4 traditional methods - orthogonal projections, axonometric projection, perspective, quoted projections - and digital design, considered in the context of the history of architectural representation and in function of the subsequent teachings related to architectural surveying and project design, experimenting with forms of graphic communication through analogical and digital techniques.
At the end of the course students will be able:
(KNOWLEDGE)
- to know the specific terminology of the descriptive geometry;
- to know the peculiarities of the different methods of analogical and digital representation;
- to know basic symbols and norms of architectural design;
(SKILLS)
- to realize representations of geometric elements and simple real and imagined architecture through the different methods of representation and digital design;
- to know how to draw shadows in analogue and digital design;
(COMPETENCE)
- to recognize the different graphic representations as belonging to specific historical traditions and to particular technological and design processes;
- to critically interpret drawings and independently choose the most appropriate graphic-communication methods for different purposes and contexts.

Contents

The Descriptive Geometry course, belonging to the SSD ICAR 17 Disegno, addresses the following topics:
1) The elements of the technical drawing
2) Geometric entities and fundamental operations
3) The model of cylindrical projections: double orthogonal projections
4) The model of cylindrical projections: the axonometries
5) The model of conical projections: the perspectives
6) The theory of shadows
7) The digital drawing.

Extended Syllabus

In the "Architecture Design Area" are included those disciplines related to the SSD ICAR 17 Design. In the organization disciplinary of the Degree in Architecture they are distributed in the first three years to converge to the 5th year in the "Progetto conservation and representation "(8 cfu).
The course in the epigraph consists of the integration of two modules: Geometry Descriptive, and Digital Design.
The first module is the foundation of the disciplines of the graphic-visual representation, and is basic for all the others in which the drawing is an expressive and communicative means of visual thought in Architecture. His study offers the tools, procedures and methods of the representation both to develop the project from scratch, and for the knowledge and documentation of the existing one.
The second module introduces the student to digital representation, through the use of software dedicated to technical drawing, modeling, to photo editing and visual representation.

Descriptive Geometry
This module is the core of the whole course, so it comes carried out in eight hours per week dedicated to the theoretical aspects of Geometry Projective. The study of scientific principles and methods will allow the students to appropriate geometric models and to manage them in areas where the representation of the architectural space is required is real that's ideal. The Descriptive Geometry is for the architect the indispensable medium to understand existing space and to visualize ideas developing analog and digital representations.
_ Summary of the arguments
1) Elements of the technical design (conventional signs, scales of the representation)
2) Geometric entities and fundamental operations (construction figures elementary)
3) The model of cylindrical projections: double orthogonal projections (even with inclined planes)
4) The model of the cylindrical projections: the axonometries (orthogonal and oblique)
5) The model of the conical projections: the perspectives (front and corner)
6) The theory of shadows (in D.P.O., Axonometry, Perspective)
7) The digital design of simple architectures.
The aforementioned topics will be applied by the students in the classroom on exercises that, together with those to be developed at home weekly (a table for each topic), will be organized in a personal portfolio e delivered to the exam in paper format A3 and on digital support. To conclusion of the lessons of each of the three models the students will be called to verify what was assumed, through type exercises graph-theoretical, bearing in mind that the respective evaluations support the final interview. Furthermore, three tables will be presented for the examination focus on the three models applied to an architectural building contemporary, agreed with the teacher. Revisions will be available for the successful completion of the examination weekly works and clarifications on the theoretical parts. The contact between lecturer and learner, as well as by e-mail, also takes place through the University website:
http://elearning.unich.it/course/view.php?id=141

The digital drawing module introduces the student to the representation info-graphics, through the use of software dedicated to technical drawing, to modeling, photo editing and visual representation. This form it will be developed on a theoretical and practical level to allow a more current one
graphic-visual communication of the representation of architecture, al order to facilitate the understanding of the spatial aspects of construction.

Bibliography of reference
R. Migliari, Geometria dei modelli, Kappa, Roma 2003.
M. Docci, R. Migliari, Scienza della rappresentazione. Fondamenti e applicazioni della geometria descrittiva, NIS, Roma 1992.

Examination procedure
The final interview is the synthesis of the theoretical and practical preparation matured by the student in the Course of Descriptive Geometry 1A. Remember to students who must present all the aforementioned interview processed products in every area and moment of the Course, on which it will be based the comparison.

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.
For further information:
Migliari, R., Geometria Descrittiva, 2 voll., CittàStudi, Novara 2009.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

The topics of Descriptive Geometry, developed in eight hours a week (4 of lesson and 4 of applications), will be verified by the students in the classroom with exercises that, together with those to be done at home weekly, they will be part of a personal portfolio to be delivered to the exam. For the
best outcome of the latter will be fixed weekly reviews of the processed.
In addition, hours will be dedicated to drawing from life, to perception of the built space, to the manual dexterity.
Furthermore there will be 2 hours of theoretical and practical lessons on digital drawing.
The contact between teacher and learner, as well as by e-mail, takes place also through the University website:
http://elearning.unich.it/course/view.php?id=141

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

At the end of the lessons of each of the three geometric models the students they will be called to verify what has been assumed, through exercises
graphical-theoretical, bearing in mind that the respective evaluations constitute the average of the final vote. The final mark will also include the evaluation of the drawings realized in progress and of the final ones - one for each projective model - in which a small building, chosen from those proposed by the lecturer, will be represented.

Contacts/More Information

The subdivision of new students in Groups A and B takes place by roll number: A even number, B odd number.
We require a basic toolkit for manual drawing and the use of computers to follow the lessons and carry out the technical tables of exercises. All the works produced within the course, duly reviewed, must be presented at the final interview, in digital and paper format A3.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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