Università Roma Tre

Drawing" for designers is the equivalent of the score for musicians: a set of
encoded and scientific signs enabling the design and the accurate realization
of the work. This course aims to provide capabilities and tools to future
engineers in order to design and devise their projects by means of the
"notation" of technical drawing.
After an early phase introducing the general issues of traditional or
“analogical” drawing, the course will continue using digital technology,
specifically CAD systems.
The representation of civil engineering project in its various phases (survey,
analysis, design, implementation, etc.) poses nontrivial problems especially
when realized in numeric environment.
The several features of a project match different sets of data that, according
to the given requirements, coexist differently in the digital space.
These data can be separately, jointly or selectively managed depending on
the need.
These informations are processed not in a static and linear way but in a
dynamic and multi polar one.
Therefore it is mandatory to develop a clear vision of the digital technique
leading to a correct method, overcoming the empirical improvisation of
neophytes and self-taught people.
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a proper "Philosophy of
use" of drawing and its related computational tools, in order to rationally and
properly handle all the digital processes related to the project and its
representation. It is mandatory to sign up for the course within the first 3
lessons and warmly suggested to attend lessons. There will be some intermediate test before
the final one which shall not be done without the positive results of the
previous.