Architectural modeling: constructing geometry

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https://doi.org/10.5821/jida.2023.12276

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reverse learning, 3d modelling, architectural representation, constructive geometry

Abstract

This article explains a collective experience of teaching graphic geometry in the compulsory training of the architecture career and proposes a further step in innovation with the renewal of tutorials. The tutorials cover the instruction in the management of the software, but also the theoretical concepts necessary to complete the knowledge about geometric shapes, representation systems and graphic operativity. New methods should not avoid the learning objectives. The analysis includes surveys on the use of tutorials and graphs of the evolution of the academic results of 59 four-months courses. It is concluded that the tutorials have been key to making a notable qualitative leap in the involvement of students in their own learning, significantly improving their academic results.

Author Biography

Isabel Crespo Cabillo, UPC-ETSAV

Architect since 1989 from ETSAV and PhD in Architecture from UPC since 2005.

Professional practice in his own studio and collaborating with other studios between 1989 and 2010. 

Professor of Descriptive geometry and technical drawing, at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura del Vallés, of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia since 1989. Professor of solar geometry and natural light in the master MBArch of the ETSAB and member of the academic commission of the program of AIEM PhD. He has been a member of the CAIRAT group (Centre d'Aplicacions Informàtiques per a la representació de l'arquitectura i el territoti) of the ETSAV with which he has published various articles and communications to conferences on topics related to the teaching of drawing and has directed two PhD theses on geometry in Gaudí and the impact of the Gaudí phenomenon on the city. She has been director of Studies at ETSAV from 2005 to 2011. Currently a Member of the Architecture, Energy and Environment Research Group, in which she has directed doctoral theses and has participated in research projects on urban morphology and energy.

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2023-11-09

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