2023

Technical Drawing I

Name: Technical Drawing I
Code: VIS12829L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Design

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

The course provides students with knowledge and experience that allows them to project and conceive assisting in the production of their works, including before demands that extend beyond “studio“ size dimensions.
In addition different forms of representation are explored, based on practical exercise with three- dimensional models and two-dimensional representation.
- Capacity to visually represent the memories, the observed and projected, supported by appropriate methods, through various ways of drawing.
- Enable the operational aspects of technical drawing.
- Promoting the pleasure of drawing, discovering the affective and rational procedures, and its artistic incursions;
- Raising awareness on the aesthetic dimension globally implied in the activity; Encourage the development of artistic sensibility through representation.

Contents

Representation
Learning of graphical representation languages inherent to project elaboration, acquiring the notion of making and communicating simulations in visual and plastic terms.
- Drawing and its graphic and intellectual potential.
- Notions regarding measure, proportion and scale.
- How to communicate two- and three-dimensional simulations.
Technical Representation - Norms and conventions. - Graphism.
- Orthogonal projections. - Views
- Cuts and sections
- Dimensioning
- Fast perspective.
- Rigorous perspective. - Shadows.
- Freehand Drawing. - Models
Human Figure Representation - Structure.
- Proportion.
Movement.

Teaching Methods

In the NORMAL SEASON assessment students may choose one of two schemes: Continuous or Final Assessment.
The SPECIAL and EXTRAORDINARY assessments are governed by the Final Evaluation scheme.
1. CONTINUOUS EVALUATION SCHEME COMPONENTS
a. Class participation: 20%;
b. Work developed during the period with the aid of the teacher, which must be submitted, at least, to a periodic evaluation with public disclosure of the classifications: 40%;
c. Presentation and defense of the work developed during the classes, which occurs during the "Regular Season Evaluations": 40%.
The student's final grade, which will appear on the Normal Season student’s exams list, is the sum of a), b) and c).
2. FINAL EVALUATION SCHEME COMPONENTS
a. Work developed during the period with the teacher's aid: 40%;
b. Examination based on the contents taught: 60%.
The student's final grade, which will appear on the Normal Season student’s exams list, is the sum of a) and b)."

Teaching Staff