Teaching GuideTerm
Higher Technical University College of Architecture
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Grao en Paisaxe
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  Landscape Representation
   Contents
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UNIT 01. INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES. THE MAIN SYSTEMS OF REPRESENTATION The drawing and representation systems.
The stages of the drawing process.
Types of projection and invariants.
Classification of the main representation systems.
TOPIC 02. DIEDICAL SYSTEM Notations and symbols
Concept of the system The projection planes.
European system American System
Plants and sections.
Changes of plane.
ITEM 03. TOPOGRAPHIC SURFACES Generalities Level Curves
Profiles and Panoramas.
Analysis and interpretation of topographic surfaces.
Ways to represent the terrain.
Explanations.
Layout of alignments: Horizontal; with constant slope; with variable slope.
UNIT 04. AXONOMETRIC SYSTEM System concept
Orthogonal and oblique projections
Axonometric drawings.
Orthogonal Axonometries: Isometry, Dimetry, Trimetry.
Oblique axonometry. Pohlke-Schwarrz theorem.
UNIT 05. LINEAR PERSPECTIVE System concept Basic vocabulary.
Representation of the line
Representation of the plane
Historical approach: its relationship with painters.
Classification and implementation procedures.
Development of the different methods of realization.
UNIT 06. GRAPHIC TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO REPRESENTATION SYSTEMS Tonal evaluation The delineation of values.
Planning of perspective, composition and tonal values.
Elements of the chiaroscuro theory.
Shadows and tonal evaluation.
UNIT 07. THEORY AND USE OF COLOR Previous issues. The light and the color.
Theory of color. Terminology.
Three essential aspects of color: hue, clarity (luminosity) and saturation.
Systems of representation of colors.
The psychophysical parameters of color.
Chromatic balance.
Colors and mixtures
ITEM 08. REALIZATION OF A DRAWING Sequence of drawings.
Hard elements.
soft elements.
Texture.
Colour.
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