Graphic Representation and Drawing

Graphic representation is one of the main systems of signs designed by man with the aim of preserving, understanding, and communicating information deemed essential. As a language for eyes, graphic representation benefits from the properties of visual perception. The effectiveness of graphic language has been recognized and studied by many theorists and communication professionals. The contribution represents in the form of notes some initial explorations in the field of infographic and graphic visualization as knowledge processing tools for analyzing and present data as information. There are some remarkable references, definitions and examples, of researchers and information professionals, from which there are extensive considerations that attempt to bring the principles of visual communication to the science of representation and to the drawing discipline for engineers and architects

Chapter Strumenti e procedure per il rilievo metrico speditivo di fronti urbani: informazioni, misure e disegni di massima come ausilio alle abilità artigianali

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences

CAD, BIM, GIS and other tricks of the computer science in the education of the Building Engineer

Revisione internazionale- relazione a invito- chair sessione S8T The paper aims to develop some thoughts on the upgrade implemented in the disciplines of drawing from the latest forms of digital representation, commenting on the experiences under way in some university courses included in the learning curriculum provided to engineering students with regard to the course of study in Ingegneria Edile (Building Engineering, also known as Architectural or Construction Engineering) at the Politecnico di Torino. It's a matter of reasoning on what and how to suggest knowledge and practises in the experience of teaching that result as an improvement of skills and abilities appropriate for future commitments required by the job world. Method: Methodological reasons, subject contents and experiences positively carried out during the activities of the course of Representation Techniques and Data Management (in the post graduate "Laurea Magistrale") are treated, focusing on all the resources needed to conduct profitable operations training and first clarifying the specific skills and experience required for the teaching staff, essential qualities to ensure good results: all the activities organized to achieve the training objectives are based on the belief that early training is needed to trigger virtuous review processes for engineering practice and that opportunities to practice through simulations in the academic curriculum for future engineers can produce effects of greater permanence and enable an enhancement of learning outcomes. Result: The analysis, which is addressed primarily to illustrate the result of some of the outcomes of exercise activities leaded by students, brings attention to a solicitation that seems to be constraining and that concerns the system of relations required between operators of the design and construction process, which are requested to enter into shared aims while operating in the specificity of the various technical fields; in this sense, the tricks of the CAD, which is at the service of a geometric knowledge, measured and fulfilled by its attributes, the attention demanded by BIM, which builds a widespread and open network of relationship, the cunnings of the GIS, which has to gather dynamic information and alternative choices, appear to address areas of operational testing following a single purpose directed towards a better characterization of the process of conceptual development and a more advantageous control of the working method. Discussion & Conclusion: So, with the design and over the usual representations, we speak of computer tricks to say that to be understood as the necessary infrastructure to solicit and investigate the reasons of doing and how to solve the complexity of operating on the field, upon which students must impractical themselves to identify qualities and limits, whether they are exploring the reasons of the survey or the reasons bound with the design; certainly a renewal for the most usual ways of designing useful to produce different levels of knowledge and a new shared place for the exchange and discussion of the hypotheses, with what results

H-BIM and web-database to deal with the loss of information due to catastrophic events - The digital reconstruction of San Salvatore's Church in Campi di Norcia (Italy)

Nowadays , we are able to produce geometric models of historical buildings at different scales of detail, using photos and measurements. This is true when you are observing something that is still under your eyes. We are faced more and more with lack of preservation actions and maintenance activities, policies framed without foresight, unexpected natural events, etc., that are forcing professionals and researchers to operate without usual data. In such cases, we need a consistent repository to collect and distribute data to produce information.Furthermore, we need to "give intelligence" to these repositories, in order to query them with respect to geometrical instances, topological issues, historical features, etc. This last aspect, (archives and databases connected with geometrical aspects), lead our digital model to a new dimension, the informative one (where spatial, temporal, historical and building parameters work together), that should always characterize speculative actions towards the constitution of a wealth of knowledge. We need to work on the efficiency of the process to reach effective methodologies of survey

Chapter Disegno: letture integrate per l’interpretazione di conoscenze e competenze pre ingresso al PoliTO

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences

Interattività e interoperabilità nel disegno a mano libera: alcuni approcci digitali a supporto della didattica | Interactivity and Interoperability in the Freehand Drawing: Digital Approaches Supporting Education

Nell’ambito della rivoluzione digitale il concetto di connessione assume una valenza cruciale, abilitando una visione trasversale di saperi, tecniche e strumenti. L’interscambio di dati i n ambienti informatici è regolato dalla capacità di interagire e funzionare, misurata nel grado di interoperabilità, che mira a garantire la migliore cooperazione tra sistemi o prodotti. L’articolo si propone di indagare l a relazione tra i l disegno analogico e la sua riformulazione digitale - assistita, ridefinita, ristrutturata, conformata, parametrizzata, perfino virtualizzata - vagliando nuove possibilità di concepire e costruire l a rappresentazione, sia come schematizzazione grafica di un pensiero, in forma artistica o i n forma tecnica, sia come strumento per comprendere o prefigurare. Specifici supporti hardware e software mirano a instaurare un continuum tra il tratto condotto a mano libera e l a sua formulazione analitica all’interno della gestione informatica. In questo senso, si introducono provocatoriamente termini come interattività e interoperabilità, non immediatamente associabili al disegno condotto a mano l ibera: la didattica del disegno si confronta su questi approcci con sempre maggiori aspettative, valutando l e opportunità e le modalità di inserimento di mirate esperienze formative, traguardando già nei primi anni accademici metodi e tecniche di rappresentazione utili per un arricchimento del profilo del futuro architetto o ingegnere. In the context of the digital revolution, the concept of ‘connection’ takes on a crucial value, enabling a transversal vision of knowledge, techniques and tools. The exchange of data in it environments is regulated by the ability to interact and function, measured by the degree of interoperability, which aims to ensure the best cooperation between systems or products. The article aims to investigate the relationship between analogue design and its digital reformulation - assisted, redefined, restructured, conformed, parameterized, even virtualized - exploring new possibilities of conceiving and constructing representation, either as a graphic schematization of a thought, in artistic or technical form, or as a tool to understand or prefigure. Specific hardware and software tools aim to establish a continuum between the freehand stroke and its analytical formulation within computer management. In this sense, terms such as interactivity and interoperability are provocatively introduced, which are not immediately associated with freehand drawing. Teaching is facing these approaches with ever-increasing expectations, evaluating the opportunities and methods for the inclusion of targeted training experiences. In this way, methods and techniques of representation useful for an enrichment of the outline of the future architect or engineer can be achieved already in the early academic years

Decorazione e arte della cucina: rappresentazione grafica del gusto e del sapore. Decoration and Art of Cooking: Graphic Representation of Taste and Flavour.

È possibile ritrovare numerosissime rappresentazioni del cibo all’interno di opere d’arte, divenendo sia fonte di ispirazione per chi voglia esprimersi pittoricamente che decorazione vera e propria: la storia della rappresentazione del cibo raffigura un vero e proprio catalogo di usi e costumi di diverse civiltà. Archeologi, storici e antropologi hanno sempre ribadito e sottolineato nei loro studi, che l’alimentazione è sempre stata un rito e, di conseguenza, la gastronomia e l’arte del cucinare un atto culturale. Esistono alcuni criteri di base sulla disposizione spaziale degli alimenti, sulle forme, sugli ingredienti e l’utilizzo dei colori; tuttavia, la regola fondamentale è che tutto quello che è presente nel piatto deve essere edibile e non solo esclusivamente decorativo. Il contributo propone l’avvio di diversi percorsi di lettura della decorazione nel campo gastronomico – di carattere storico, analitico, compositivo-formale, geometrico, cromatico – e si sofferma sui diversi punti di incontro di questi percorsi, sui crocevia espressi tramite matrici infografiche e illustrazioni emblematiche; queste esploreranno le diverse opportunità di sintesi rappresentando tappe per successivi approfondimenti, approdi ed esiti

From the Theatrum Sabaudiae: drawings of fortifications in celebratory representations of a dynasty

[EN] In order to make the lands and places of their possessions known to European courts and communities, first Duke Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy (1634-1675) and then the Duchess Regent Maria Giovanna Battista of Savoy Nemours (1644-1724) published in 1682, in Amsterdam, at the printing works founded by the publisher and cartographer Joan Blaeu (1596-1673), the publication Theatrum Statuum Regiae Celsitudinis Sabaudiae Ducis, Pedemontii Principis, Cypri Regis. The contribution extracts and comments the graphic transcription made to represent the fortifications depicted in the views, comparing within synoptic paintings divided by theme or components, the recurrent codes of an iconographic nature contained in the one hundred and forty-five plates.Novello, G.; Bocconcino, M. (2020). Dal Theatrum Sabaudiae: disegni di fortificazioni nelle raffigurazioni celebrative di una dinastia. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 705-712. https://doi.org/10.4995/FORTMED2020.2020.11522OCS70571

Sulle facoltà del disegno: potenziale informativo ed espressività nelle opere dedicate agli studi storico-archeologici dell’architetto Luigi Canina / On the assets of drawing: informative potential and expressiveness in works dedicated to historical/archaeological study by the architect Luigi Canina

Si propongono considerazioni circa la rappresentazione grafica, inerenti a funzioni e relativi attributi del disegno esplorati nell’ambito degli studi archeologici, riferendo di alcune ricerche condotte sulle illustrazioni che accompagnano la ricca serie di volumi redatti e pubblicati da Luigi Canina a partire dal 1827, presenti nel fondo Archivio Mosca ospitato dal Politecnico di Torino. Finalità dell’esposizione è riaffermare l’importanza del Disegno nella trasmissione della conoscenza scientifica valutandone criticamente il valore e chiarendone i caratteri distintivi. La trattazione si concentra con riferimento alla complementarità informativa e alle forme espressive che la trascrizione grafica manifesta nello specifico contesto della descrizione dei monumenti dell’antico, lette rispetto alla narrazione testuale

Intelligent Information Systems for the representation and management of the city. Urban survey and design for resilience.

Recent emergencies have triggered a series of proposals, revisions and regulatory updates. In Italy, as part of the Italian Decreto Rilancio, a proposal to introduce a compulsory building file seems to have been accepted. If this proposal is followed up, we could soon see the collection of a series of data and information on the building stock of our cities. This contribution defines a proposal for the organisation of this systematic collection, suitably supported by advanced IT tools, to make possible the start of a renewed season of monitoring, management, planning and development of more resilient buildings and cities. The proposed idea is to channel the information and data on individual buildings into a single database that can provide a comprehensive, unambiguous and multi-scalar picture of the urban system