Departament of Architectural Representation. RA

CAD Management

CAD Management

Professor: Mª Isabel Ruiz Castrillo

 

Objectives

  • Boost and develop the student's ability to work as a team, in complex architectural projects, creating a participation space in teams in order to discuss planning, management, development, exchange and verification, as the model simulation and presentation of an architecture ensemble and its environment. 

  • Encourage participatory and interactive work within the team, for what is really relevant to have a space in which the basis of work, collaboration and coordination between teams are established, according to the agreements assumed by the whole group. 

  • Respect the planning as an underlying logical structure of work.

  • Assume the development management according to the agreed guidelines and methodology. 

  • Respond from realisation, in time and form, of the development of the representation project of a given area.

  • Facilitate the information exchange with other groups to contribute to the formalisation of the projects as wholes.

  • Draft the work presentation in the different levels, group and team, with the elements of graphic composition and design that give it its own character. 

 

Content

The subject is based on the advanced management of a complex project, in the collaborative work in a digital environment and the presentation of the results. The chosen project is the Torre Valentina urbanisation, Sant Antoni de Calonge, Girona 1959, by José Antonio Coderch de Sentmenat, which was never built. For collaborative work we understand it as the participation of all students, organised in teams, both for previous analysis and definition and use of criteria, sharing digital material that is generated throughout the representation process, for which will be indispensable to work everybody with the same software, AutoCAD 2012.

The presentation of the results is the most subjective part of the work, which will try to show in detail the given area of the project and at the same time, its relation with the set. Study of the four projects of Torre Valentina to track and verify the project intentions, expressed repeatedly by Coderch in his extensive architectural career, and analyse the articulation of the fourth project, the definitive, as a synthesis of the previous three.

  • Investigate thoroughly the existing graphic documentation, to synthesise the most significant elements of the project to convert them into the principles that will guide the realisation of the explanatory model of it.

  • Work planning. Definition of the criteria that will regulate all the process development and the shared management of all the elements.

  • Organisation of the teams and work procedures. Establishment of a schedule according to the work and subject development. 

  • Task assignation. Following the project articulation, conceived by Coderch, it will be assigned the elaboration of elements, types, groups, and dwellings blocks, just as the terrain and hotel that form the whole. 

  • Formalisation of the given work to each team according to the shared criteria and respecting the planned schedules. 

  • Composition and verification of the whole. Adjustments required. Model available at presentations.

  • Parallel definition and with greater detail degree of elements, types, groups and blocks of the fragment that corresponds to each team. In order to prepare a presentation of it from a close point of view. The presentation of the whole concerns the group that elaborates the terrain and the hotel.

  • Presentation of the project, in panels, of each building in its environment and the architectural complex.

 

Basic bibliography

García Ventosa, Gerardo; Llobet Ribeiro, Xavier; Ruiz Castrillo, Isabel. José Antonio Coderch: Torre Valentina: un proyecto de paisaje. Madrid: Rueda, 2004. ISBN 8472071499.

Arquitecturas ausentes del siglo XX. Sevilla: Madrid: Tanais; Ministerio de la Vivienda, 2005. ISBN 8449601274.

J.A.Coderch: Torre Valentina. Barcelona: ETSAV; Edicions UPC, 1999. ISBN 8483012960.

Green, Robert. Expert CAD management: the complete guide. Indianápolis: Sybex, 2007. ISBN 978-0470116531.

Von Wodtke, Mark. Design with digital tools: using new media creativity. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000. ISBN 0071344969.

 

Complementary

Fochs, Carles. J.A. Coderch de Sentmenat 1913-1984. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1989. ISBN 8425213878.

Coderch 1940-1964: en busca del hogar. Barcelona: Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya, 2000. ISBN 8488258836.

Sòria, Enric. Conversaciones con J.A. Coderch de Sentmenat. Murcia: Colegio de Aparejadores y Arquitectos Técnicos [etc.], 1997. ISBN 8470311034.