LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course provides knowledge and skills for the deepening and experimentation of representation methodologies for the critical analysis of the pre-existence and for the architectural design in its different scalar dimensions. With this in mind, 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

Students will face a theoretical and practical path that will lead them to know the scientific fundamentals (geometric, visual and perceptive) and the technical methods of using updated tools for creating models, drawings and images (parametric modeling, photo insertion, rendering, panoramic photography, video.

During the course, an exercise is proposed which consists of analysing and reworking an architectural project, whether built or not, through parametric modeling tools and in its representation, through rendering techniques and photo insertion, including panoramic ones. The reworking must include an improvement in accessibility intended as a more comprehensive degree of use for all.

Students will acquire not only the technical tools, but also the critical ones that will enable them to motivate and illustrate the different processing stages.

PREREQUISITES

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TEACHING METHODS

The lessons are divided into lectures, and interactive lessons (critical discussions) to enhance active and collaborative teaching. We will produce models, drawings, photographs and images.

It is also given importance to the acquisition of transversal (or soft) skills, particularly the ability to argue critically about their choices and work organisation in groups.

THE COURSE ON AULAWEB IS UPDATED WEEKLY.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Geometry and parametric models for architecture

-Theoretical and applicative aspects of modelling: mathematical and numerical representation, parametric modeling

-Curved lines and surfaces: modeling and use in architecture

-Particular geometric aspects (Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries, invariants and projective and topological geometry, symmetry and attractor) and their applications to architecture

-Tessellations in plane and space and their application in the transition from ideal geometric forms to real architectural forms

Architecture and context

- Generation and insertion of a configuration in a context

- Photographic insertion

- Panoramic photography

- Hybrid configurations of drawings, photographs and images

- Rendering, animation and video

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

The course uses pieces extracts of texts available in the library, including:

-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.

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

-Calvano M. (2019), Disegno digitale esplicito, Roma: Aracne.

-Càndito C. (2020), Rappresentazione e Accessibilità per l’Architettura, Morrisville, NC: Lulu.