2024

Technical Drawing I

Name: Technical Drawing I
Code: VIS14203L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Design

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

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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

The classes will be build on an interactive and exhibitive model promoting the sharing and discussion of theoretical and practical knowledge through the use of audiovisual means and technical support manuals.
The interim evaluation of student performance will be based on the analysis of exercises in which his acquired knowledge will be applied.
The final assessment is based on the analysis of final results of the work developed and presented by the student.
Attendance: 10%
Intermediate Evaluation: 50%
Final Evaluation: 40%.