Università Roma Tre

Located in the first year of the Degree Course in Architectural Design, the course aims to
participate, through the representation of architecture and the environment to the development of
following skills:
• conceive and use representation as a tool for exploration, verification and
communication of the project idea and its realization;
• use the different techniques and the different representation tools depending on the
theoretical and practical reflections on the questions raised by the architecture analyzed.
General issues
1. Analysis and transcription of architectural projects of some architects, through the use of different
representation techniques
2. Communication of the study process of an architectural work, in its analytical phase and of
return.
Specific topics
In order to develop the themes indicated above, the following topics will be addressed:
1. Evolution of the project design from the art of nineteenth century construction to the period
contemporary
2. decompose the architecture. The graphical analysis for the knowledge of the architectural work.
3. The declinations of the design project for architecture: techniques and graphic models in the
poetics of some masters
4.Graphic techniques for the representation of the analysis and project concept
5. Digital design as a form of exploration and verification of spatial configurations
in two-dimensional and three-dimensional areas
6. Perspective control and digital space
7. 3D modeling: practical theoretical concepts for a conscious use of 3d modeling programs
8. Output techniques: static rendering
9. Output techniques: dynamic rendering
10. On the design of contemporary architects and in particular the study of the graphic production of the ABDR studio in Rome
The themes will be carried out through the analysis and re-design of unrealized architectural projects
of the ABDR study
Work phases / methods
We will proceed to a first graphic analysis by hand (plastic drawings and models) to understand
compositional logic, constituent elements and hypothesized spatial configurations. Then, a 3D digital model and we will proceed with the elaboration of images and animations to display the information gathered. The last phase will be dedicated to comunication with video processing.