Architectural Representation II - ETSAV

Architectural Representation II

The subject follows a path similar to Technical Drawing. Therefore, from the beginning to the end, the method goes trough the active implication of the student.To model can't be learned if it isn't by modelling; so, at classes the students model and form graphic descriptions of the generated models. To the extent possible, all the work is done exclusively at the classes periods of time, when the teachers can influence and guide the path to follow.

On the contrary, the needed previous preparation, as much in theoretical concepts such as drawing tools knowledge, is done by the student in its own and off the clock, working on the material that, day-to-day, the teachers upload in the virtual campus ATENEA. Beyond some short introductory orientations to the daily exercises, there are no passive theoretical classes. It is each student who decides when and which dedication applies to prepare the next class, in the understanding that this preparation is indispensable to face the class's exercises. 

In each class, the students, with their laptops, work in the classroom the exercises of that session, requiring the teacher's support and orientation in everything that makes reference to the specific objectives of the exercise. Meaning that the teachers don't attend questions about issues that had been clearly exposed in the educational material of previous preparation.

At the end, each student upload the archives of their work in ATENEA and, before the beginning of the next class, receives, by the same procedure, the teacher's correction. With that, the teacher can make a properly tracking and the student is permanently informed of which is its own learning process evolution.

Objectives

• To control the three-dimensional space geometry through construction and manipulation of 3D models.
• To reach a level, not advanced but rigorous, in the construction of a graphic discourse.
• To have clear criteria regarding the disposition and composition of projections on paper.
• To control the expository clarity and the expression of perceptive values on the representation.
• To use the suitable technical vocabulary and the the most usual graphic standards: format, titles, footnotes, keys...

Content

1. Position control in three-dimensional space.
2. Knowledge and practice use of different 3D model typologies.
3. Knowledge and practice use of the processes of generation of primitive forms in a computer modeller in 3D. 
4. Generation of complex forms: application operators to solid models and surface models.
5. Vector representations; processes of hidden lines removal. 
6. Correct composition and disposition of projections.
7. Conical perspective; point of view, frame and distortion control.
8. Introduction to image representations.
9. Obtaining of vector drawings with addition of shades.
10. Techniques of model visibility control, in the modelling phase.
11. Generation and control of graphical drawings in section.
12. Free form surfaces.
13. Mesh models.
14. Terrains and explanations models.
15. Obtaining of level curves and outlines. 

Basic bibliography

Sánchez Gallego, Juan Antonio. Geometría descriptiva para arquitectos. [Barcelona]: Departament d'Expressió Gràfica Arquitectònica I, Secció de Geometría Descriptiva, Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 1989-1990. ISBN 8476530501.

Font Comas, Joan; Crespo, Isabel; Martínez Mindeguía, Francisco. Els Dibuixos de Josep Llinàs. [Sant Cugat del Vallès]: Centre d'Aplicacions Informàtiques a la representació de l'Arquitectura i el Territori CAIRAT : Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura del Vallès, DL 2004. ISBN 8460801489.

Font Comas, Joan; Crespo, Isabel; Martínez Mindeguía, Francisco. El Dibuix i la imatge del projecte: l'obra gràfica de 4 equips d'arquitectes romans. Sant Cugat del Vallès: Centre d'Aplicacions Informàtiques a la representació de l'Arquitectura i el Territori CAIRAT : Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura del Vallès, DL 2006. ISBN 846080545X.