TECHNIQUES OF REPRESENTATION (Partizione B)
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2017/2018
- Teacher
- MANUELA INCERTI
- Credits
- 9
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- ICAR/17
Training objectives
- This integrated course is aimed at the achievement of theoretical and procedural skills related to the three-dimensional digital representation (Techniques of Representation 2) and to the indirect architectural survey (Architectural Survey 2), implemented by using advanced tools and equipment, and the three-dimensional representation, in close continuity with the course of Architectural Survey 1.
The course is organized into two integrated teaching modules:
1. The module of Techniques of Representation 2 (5 cfu)
2. The module of Architectural Survey 2 (4 cfu)
Knowledge:
- principles and methods of the science of representation, from traditional to digital drawing;
- graphic norms and representation techniques through the evolution of traditional graphic and representational tools (in relation to the theories of visual and color perception), up to the digital techniques of raster graphics, automatic drawing, three-dimensional modeling, rendering and solid prototyping;
- methods and tools for direct and indirect architectural and urban survey: from leveling and trilateration processes using traditional tools to advanced morphometric technologies;
- application and representation issues of architectural survey data in relation to digital representation techniques, depending on scale, accuracy and precision requirements, and on the purpose of the survey (documentation, structural analysis, restoration, etc.);
- critical/selective survey methods of architecture, city, urban space and components of the urban scene.
Skills:
- investigate, describe and check scientifically the architectural, urban and landscape space, its forms and materials;
- analyze and use advanced visual, diagnostic and documentary methods that allow to critically address the understanding of an architecture, a urban context, a landscape in relation to the formal, dimensional, chromatic and material, perceptual, historical-constructive and conservative features;
-manage a three-dimensional model (consistent for shape, size and detail) and its related orthogonal projections, connected to the logical-descriptive interpretation path;
- critically use methods, norms and tools of architectural representation (traditional and digital) according to the criteria of representation science, for the management of the geometric model of architectural, urban and landscape space;
- recognize the essential geometrical-representative issues for the choice of correct architectural and urban survey procedures, and the consistent data representation, according to the current technical regulations;
- critically assess the conditions of use of the various principles, methods, techniques of survey and representation on the basis of historical-morphological and conservative characters and contextual issues;
- selection and use of procedures and instruments (for survey and digital representation) aimed at gaining and transmitting information consistent with the required framework;
- identify the morphologic, material and chromatic components consistent with the representation aims, according to coded representation criteria and procedures;
- handle the basic issues of digital data integration. Prerequisites
- It is possible to attend the exam only if the exam of “Architectural Survey I” has been passed.
Knowledge of graphic conventions and methods of architectural representation.
Knowledge of:
Direct survey and representation (on-site drawing).
Tools for direct on-site survey
Fundamentals and methods for architectural direct survey
Photograph for the architectural survey
The survey of the architectural orders
The ancient unit of measurement and critical analysis
Architecture digital representation (Raster Graphics, Vector Graphics)
Processing techniques for ortho-photo (fronts), Print, Exchange formats. Course programme
- The Course of Techniques of Representation 2 aims at making students familiar with the theory, methods, procedures and techniques of three-dimensional representation. This discipline is closely related to the issues of survey and architectural project. The goal is to develop a "geometric knowledge" in the framework of the digital drawing that offers new possibilities for the management of the project and its representation. The use of different software and examples of application are intended to bring the student to develop a critical awareness, as well as new operational capabilities.
The course of Architectural Survey 2 is aimed at acquiring methods and integrated techniques for indirect architectural survey through three-dimensional surveying technologies, and learning the techniques of data management and representation, in close continuity with the course of Architectural Survey I. The course offers a critical awareness on the choice of instruments and procedures in relation to the object and purpose of the indirect survey. Through exercises in the classroom and on-site, the issues of data integration will be tested. The training process provides an experience on historical and monumental architectures.
Techniques of Representation 2 _ 3D Modeling by creating solid primitives and interchange formats _ 3D modeling by using BIM parametric software and interchange formats _ 3D Modeling by using NURBS software and interchange formats _ 3D Modeling by using polygonal and rendering software and interchange formats. Photorealistic and non-photorealistic renderings. Basic knowledge of Animation _ From the mesh to 3D printing.
Architectural Survey 2 _ The integrated advanced surveying _ The integrated topographic surveying _ The analytical photo-straightening _ The photography for architecture _ Digital Photogrammetry _ The laser scanner survey. Didactic methods
- Teaching methods are divided into:
• a series of basic theoretical concepts illustrated by the teacher (lectures)
• a series of tutorials, individual and / or in team, to be carried out in the classroom or outside (seminars)
• a final exercise, in groups, aimed at the production of group and individual graphic representations. The context of application is a monumental historical architecture.
• Revisions.
It is required the own work equipment (personal laptop and reflex to be used by group of students). Learning assessment procedures
- The final evaluation of the exam is a single mark. In the final interview the student must show an appropriate degree of theoretical knowledge relating to the two modules, and submit all the papers drawn up during the course, as a synthesis of the main objectives of the course.
The final mark is the result of the intermediate and the final interview:
During the two courses (Techniques of Representation and Architectural Survey 2) individual weekly intermediate deliveries are expected; evaluations are expressed by the following ratings: (A, excellent – B, good – C, passing grade - D, unsatisfactory). Insufficient assessment in one of the exercises involves the delivery of additional material during the final exam.
The average mark is made up of the evaluations of each exercise.
The final examination, integrated between the two modules, consists of an oral exam related to the main contents and a discussion about end digital drawings:
• Part I: summary of the interim exercises of each member of the group;
• Part II: synthesis of the work carried out by each group for the final exam with a mark from 18 to 30L.
The final mark is the average of the judgment for the presented work and the mark related to the contents of the final exam. If one of the marks is considered insufficient, it is necessary to repeat the test. Reference texts
- MR. SCATENI, P. CIGNONI, C. MONTANI, R. SCOPIGNO, Fondamenti di grafica tridimensionale interattiva, McGrawHill 2005.
M. DOCCI, D. MAESTRI, Manuale di rilevamento architettonico e urbano, Laterza, Bari 2009.
