A4509 Architectural Drawing I: Basic
Methods/Practice RequirementPaola Iacucci
INTRODUCTION
The necessity of drawing in the making of architect is our field on of inquiry; and the inner tie between drawing and making, assuming drawings as a mean of knowing and constructing architecture. From representation to making, from abstraction to actual. The problem we confront is one of representation considering the making of architecture; the path that we will follow is one that goes from abstraction to actual.
The work will develop from drawing in perspective about space, light, materiality, transition, expressed through representation tools used intuitively, on a spatial theme thought by the student. The spatial theme should express a three dimensional idea of tectonics. We will proceed through drawings which will challenge all the possibilities of using representational tools: orthogonal sections, axonometric, constructed perspective, constructed shade and shadows.
At this point a sectional model will be introduced to better understand the sectional quality of space. Few other fragment models of parts of the spatial construction may be made and investigate as a negative construction of the same space. From these models new drawings will be constructed keeping in mind the possible transformation of spaces in light, materials, shadows. From a perspectival representation of space, we may go into a representation which defines a space beyond perspective. For example the space of cubism.
Cezanne said that he spent his life to understand that perspective is only a sequence of planes. The implication of this idea in the making of space will be investigated through drawings, through light, and shadows in the second try all the representational tools and techniques applying them to a spatial idea, a spatial theme that transforms itself, and constructs itself as you work on it. It is a work in progress.
The course will be paralleled by seven lectures, two of which will be theoretical and five of which are of descriptive geometry. Indications and techniques regarding the making of the drawings with pen, pencil, watercolor, chiaroscuro will be given along the entire period of the course.
STUDIO TOPICS
1. The theme of drawing: setting of a theme. An architectural element - theme, in site, in light, in measure, in construction. Solid versus void relation. Positive and negative. Investigation through studies, sketches, drawings. Orthogonal sections: plan and elevation. The section as a way of construction o f the theme. Graphic distribution. Model.
2. Into the third dimension. Investigation of the construction of space. Inclined view. Shifting plane of reference. New intersection, rotation in space. Changing of reference plane in relation to solid-void, positive-negative.
3. Axonometric, isometric. Axonometric section. The space of cubism. Non- perspectival representation of space. The planar space. The breaking of the perspectival planes.
4. The representation of the solidity or transparency of space. Light. Shade. Rhythm, sequence.
5. Perspective. One point perspective. Two points and several points perspective. Reality of representation. Measure, scale, construction, materials, details.
6. Final investigation. Relations and possibilities of themes. Towards a self - representation of architecture. The representation of matter and materials. Drawing the construction of architecture.
LESSONS ON DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY
1. Orthogonal sections: plan, section, elevation.
2. Projections from an infinite point: isometric, diametric, parallel
3. Several point perspective.
4. Several point perspective.
5. Shade and shadow.
THEORETICAL LECTURES
1. A way of thinking architecture: drawing and the construction of architecture. Drawing and the project.
2. Beyond perspective, the breaking of the perspectival plane. The space of cubism. From the representation of architecture to the self representation of architecture.