MASTERING PERSPECTIVE IN OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING

Abstract

The exercise of spatial representation poses specific difficulties to students of architecture. To identify and understand such setbacks, several students were asked to make a modelled drawing and a contour drawing of three urban spaces with highly differentiated features. The examination of the students’ drawings has enabled the identification of the most recurrent imprecisions, their corresponding spatial position and in which type of drawing they more frequently occur. The data collected suggest that, despite inaccuracies occurring more frequently and clearly in contour drawings, this type of exercise allows the credible representation of a place, thereby stimu- lating the observation and consideration of aspects related to the materiality of the surfaces and the constructive definition of the elements that are part of that space. Modelled drawings and contour drawings - the latter preferably developed under given coordinates - are key and complementary exercises for developing the ability to control shape and space.