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REGGIO DI CALABRIA
Overview
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Syllabus
Course Objectives
In order to achieve the expected results for the course program and the proposed experimentation, the didactic offer divided into the different activities pursues the following objectives.
The course aims at acquiring the necessary skills for surveying using traditional analogue methods and innovative, instrumental and multimedia methods. The survey will be adopted as an instrument of knowledge of architecture and space. Furthermore, the theme of graphic and multimedia communication will be addressed as a tool for the dissemination of cultural heritage.
Particular attention will be paid to the critical use of digital technologies and communication techniques.
Qualifying educational objectives:
- Acquisition of the basic notions of direct survey;
- Acquisition of the basic notions for the photogrammetric survey;
- Acquisition and basic survey for the instrumental survey
- Ability to interpret, read and represent architecture;
- Ability to use analogue and digital techniques of representation and visual communication.
Specific training objectives in relation to the theme of the course:
ability to develop a survey project that involves the simultaneous presence of several techniques: photo modeling,
direct survey and instrumental survey.
- Point cloud management in CAD environment
- Acquisition of specific skills for the creation of an effective eidotype calibrated for the purposes of the survey
Course Prerequisites
The course, placed in the second year, provides knowledge of elementary and advanced concepts of descriptive geometry, knowledge of the history of Western architecture, elementary knowledge of conventional representation codes. Ability to manage and use digital systems.
For propaedeutic information, refer to article 19 of the Educational Regulations
Teaching Methods
1. TYPE OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Lessons: (hours/year in the classroom):
1. General introduction to architectural surveying design for surveying (4 hours)
2. Historical notes. Role and significance of architectural relief (4 hours)
3. The representation of architecture as a support for the survey: sketch and drawing from life (2 hours)
Practice 4 hours
4. The eidotype (2 hours)
Live practice (3 hours)
5. The themed model (5 hours)
6. Inspection and survey of a coastal tower. (8 hours)
7. Digital representation vs print representation (2 hours)
8. Direct survey, Typological survey, Urban survey. (5 hours)
9. Instrumental survey (2 hours)
Computer classroom exercise (3 hours)
10. Photogrammetric survey (5 hours)
Computer classroom exercise (3 hours)
11. Survey photography (2 hours)
Live practice (3 hours)
12. Verification of final papers (5 hours)
Exercises: (classroom hours/year): 12
Practical activities: (classroom hours/year):8
Other:
2. SELF-EMPLOYMENT OF THE STUDENT
1 credit = 25 hours (10 hours frontal/15 by the student*)
- In-depth analysis/study on bibliography (theoretical part)
- Preparation of checks (experimentation)
- Exam preparation
Assessment Methods
The exam is individual. It can be accessed after verifying the minimum attendance required by the course and after having delivered all the graphic works assigned during the year. The papers produced during the course and the topics covered in the theoretical lessons will be the subject of the oral exam.
Voting:
30 - 30 cum laude: excellent ability to conceive and develop the survey project and representation of the assigned theme; excellent language and communication skills also on different registers (drawing, presentation, etc.);
26-29: good ability to conceive and develop relief and representation of the assigned theme; good ability to articulate a specialized discourse also through different communicative registers;
22 - 25: sufficient ability to conceive and develop a survey and representation of the assigned theme, as well as to articulate a specialized discourse;
18-21: minimum ability to conceive and develop relief and representation of the assigned theme;
Insufficient: strong difficulties in conceiving and developing the relief and representation of the assigned theme; strong training gaps; inability to apply the acquired knowledge; inappropriate language.
ES (simulation)
0_ test to verify basic knowledge (start in training activities)
1_ mid-term assessment of the survey on lectures and seminars (end of April 2025)**
2 _ final check – Final Review/ WORKSHOP (end of May 2025)**
(cf. art.14 didactic regulation/attendance obligation)
Examination methods: Theory/Practice
Texts
Mario Docci, Diego Maestri, Manuale di rilevamento architettonico e urbano, Laterza, Milano
2002
testi da consultare
Marinella Arena, Micro_Città, Aracne Edizioni, Roma 2015
Marinella Arena, Mediazioni mediterranee, Edizioni Kappa, Roma 2007
Erwin Panofsky, La prospettiva come forma simbolica, Feltrinelli, Milano 1993
Michel Foucault, Le parole e le cose, BUR, Milano 1996
Susan Sontag, Sulla fotografia Realtà e immagine nella nostra società, Einaudi, Torino 2004
Roland Barthes, La camera chiara Note sulla fotografia, Einaudi, Torino 2003
testi da leggere
Paolo Belardi, Why Architects Still Draw, The MIT Press, Cambridge 2014
Georges Perec, Specie di spazi, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 1989,1a ed., Espèces d’espces,Editions Galilée, Paris 1957
Yves Bonnefoy, Lo sguardo per iscritto, Le Lettere, Firenze 2000
John Berger, Sul guardare, Mondadori, Milano 2003
Contents
The survey of an architecture is the simplest and most direct way to access the knowledge of shapes, elements,
architectural structures.
The survey, just like the representation, does not return reality but a thematic model of reality.
Before carrying out a survey, it is therefore necessary to design a model of reality that responds to the thematism of
prominence. A thematic survey of the restoration requires a model rich in information on the lesions, on the state
of the plasters, on the conditions of the degradation. Conversely, a survey themed to typological analysis contains
few data on the morphology and architectural layout of the space.
It is clear that the architectural culture of whoever designs the themed model has an influence
on the quality of the model and, ultimately, on that of the survey.
The survey course intends to provide the cultural tools to build the thematic model of a survey, for
choose the most effective survey technique according to the theme and the typology of the architecture.
The educational objectives will allow an adequate knowledge of the history and theories of architecture, as well as of the arts, technologies and human sciences related to it; a knowledge of the fine arts as factors which may affect the quality of architectural conception; develop the skills to create architectural designs that meet aesthetic and technical needs;
The training course provides for the knowledge of the methods and techniques of analogue and digital representation and of the architectural survey.
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