L’importanza del disegno come strumento di ricerca, riflessione e descrizione del progetto

Understanding the design intentions in order to reconstruct the whole process that from the first sketches arrives to the definition of the project and subsequently to its graphic drafting is the only way to reach the deep knowledge of an architectural work. After the imposition of digital tools that has opened up new potential to representation, it is important to focus on the fact that a design process cannot be based only and exclusively on modern representation tools because most of the time the manual skills, the creative self and the representation’s skill are flattened. Therefore, think about a drawing as a real design methodology is important. The design has the aim to return an environment in all its characteristics: from the early stage, in which the idea still manifests itself through preliminary diagrams and sketches, to that in which the project is completely described through technical drawings. The creative process of the space derives from an abstract idea that later is defined in the project starting from the reworking of mental images, assimilated following a synthesis of experiences and perceptive/sensorial memories of places or spaces. But nowadays, automatic drawing tools require a good knowledge of geometry and drawing’s bases, so much to reaffirm the role of this as a natural extension of thought, instrument of knowledge, understanding, study and reasoning as a fundamental prerequisite of the design.