OVERVIEW

The course aims to train the student on the scientific and critical theory and on the practice of producing drawings, and images for the contemporary architectural project.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course provides knowledge and skills needed to represent the architectural design during the conception and presentation phases. With this in mind, the themes related to the production of images for the project in its different scalar dimensions are studied in depth. The representation is seen as a way of addressing the complexity of the project, intended as an ex-novo act of creation or as a system of operations functional to cognitive processes affirming its value as an autonomous aesthetic subject expressive of forms of critical research.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The student will face a theoretical and practical path that will lead him to know the scientific fundamentals (geometric, optical and perceptive) and the technical methods of using some updated tools for creating models, drawings and images (parametric models, photo insertions, renderings , panoramic photograph). Through this knowledge, the student will create parametric models and represent them by choosing the modes of expression considered most effective.

An exercitation is proposed which consists in creating a spatial configuration through parametric modeling systems and in its insertion in an urban context. The student will acquire not only the technical tools, but also the critical ones that will enable him to motivate and illustrate the different processing stages.

TEACHING METHODS

The lessons are divided into lectures, participate lessons (critical discussions) and elaboration of models, drawings, photographs and images.

THE COURSE ON AULAWEB IS UPDATED WEEKLY WITH PARTIALLY BILINGUAL EXPLANATIONS.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course covers the following subjects:
Geometry and parametric models for architecture

- Digital mathematical and numerical representation

- Curved lines and surfaces and their use in architecture

- Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry

- Projective geometry and perceptive ambiguities

-Symmetries, tessellations, proportions

Architecture and context

- Generation and Insertion of a configuration in a context

- Photographic insertion

- Panoramic photography

- Hybrid configurations of drawings, photographs and images

-rendering

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Pottman H. (2007), Architectural geometry. Bentley, Exton (PA)

Burry, J., & Burry, M. (2010). The new mathematics of architecture. London: Thames & Hudson.

Picon A. (2010), Digital Culture in Architecture, an Introduction for the Design Professions, Birkhäuser, Basel.

Tedeschi A., AAD Algorithms-aided design: parametric strategies using Grasshopper, Napoli: Edizioni Le Penseur, 2014

Càndito C. (2016), Modelli e immagini per la rappresentazione dell’architettura, Roma: Aracne

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

CRISTINA CANDITO (President)

MATTHEW BUTCHER

ILENIO CELORIA

ANDREA QUARTARA

LESSONS

LESSONS START

See calendar of the first semester (September/Dicember)

Class schedule

METHODS OF REPRESENTATION FOR THE PROJECT

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The final exam consists in the delivery and discussion of the elaboration carried out during the course.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

FINAL ASSESSMENT - Takes into account:

- curriculum of deliveries and revisions for attending students or, for those who do not attend, periodic processing to be agreed and reviewed with the teacher;

- evaluation of the monographic exercise;

-evaluation of the oral discussion based on the knowledge of the properly chosen scientific and critical foundations.

Exam schedule