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Year
Beyond the narrative: a workflow for 3D restitution of built heritage
2024
The Missing Camera or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oblique Projection
2024
Relics of Electronic Hallucinations. Gazing at Early Computational Fluid Dynamics Drawings from Los Alamos Nuclear Research Center
2024
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2024
Rules, A Short History Of What We Live By, A book by Lorraine Daston
2024
Survey and characterisation of the archaeological landscape of Lovo
2024
Stoclet 1911 - Restitution
2024
Stoclet 1911 - Hypothesis
2024
TV Show: 3D Digitization and Built Heritage Preservation
2024
Drawing air: the evolution of the representation of air in architectural drawing from the industrial revolution to the present
2023
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2023
Analysis, Systems & Composition
2023
Code Tracing
2023
Maison du Peuple full scale experience on its original site
2023
From projection to building and vice versa
2023
Emergence of pre-digital algorithmic design
2023
Comparing Randomness
2023
Anthropic Units in Baroque Architecture, the Gallery of the Palazzo Spada and the Roman Palm
2023
Workshop Glyph
2023
Re-presentation as an analytical tool in Baroque Architecture
2022
Crossed Experimentations of Low-Altitude Surveys For The Detection Of Buried Structures
2022
Chamber Music Hall of Horta's Palais des Beaux-Arts: 3D Hypothesis
2022
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Algorithmic Music II/II
2022
Misreading, once again...
2022
Perspectives on Dwelling : Architectural Anthropologies of Home
2022
Workshop (fig.22)
2022
Towards a multi-scale semantic characterization of the built heritage
2021
De l'incarnation de la protoarchitecture
2021
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Algorithmic Music I/II
2021
Noise
2021
(Close) Reading Morphosis
2021
Jeu d’échelles / échelles du jeu
2021
Pohlke: One-Click Standard Orthographic and Oblique Projection Cameras
2021
Workshop (fig.)
2021
Perspectiva Virtualis
2021
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2020
Exploitation des numérisations pour l'analyse urbaine en contexte archéologique
2020
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - The Algorists
2020
Urban Planning Representation
2020
Projection built into Sketchpad III: origin of a critical field in computer graphics
2020
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2019
Exploitation de numérisations hétérogènes pour la représentation et l'analyse d'un site archéologique de grande échelle : Pachacamac 1532
2019
Relecture de vocabulaires d’architecture : apport de la complexité des représentations numériques dans la caractérisation de formes architecturales
2019
Victor Horta's Maison du Peuple 3D restitution hypothesis
2019
Architectural Analysis and Graphic Representation - Morphosis in the 1980s
2019
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Medley II/II
2019
Histoires de Représentation
2019
Victor Horta's Maison du Peuple 3D restitution hypothesis
2019
Building Drawings : Decoding and Recoding the Graphic Projection Algorithm in Architectural Representation
2019
Places Royales Françaises. Réflexion d’une logique d’édification à travers une corrélation entre une analyse sémantique et un signal géométrique
2018

Study and Rendition of Jean-Baptiste Hourlier's projection drawings

Author(s): David Lo Buglio, Tom Pariente, Denis Derycke, Livio De Luca

Full title:

A look at the role of projections in the study of drawings of Jean-Baptiste Hourlier

Collaboration:

Collaboration with the French Academy of Architecture & the MAP (UMR 3495 CNRS/MCC)

Lecture:

Lo Buglio, D., Pariente, T., Derycke D. & De Luca, L. (2016). Un regard sur le rôle des projections dans l'évolution des méthodes de représentation de l'architecture: Premières pistes pour l'étude des dessins de Jean-Baptiste Hourlier. La figuration de la Cité. Paris : Académie d’Architecture française

Abstract:

A number of drawings by the architect Jean-Baptiste Hourlier were presented at the ‘Figurations de la Cité’ exhibition held at the Académie d'Architecture de France in November 2016. These drawings, of exceptional format, constitute the architect's third-year ‘envoi de Rome’, when he was a resident at the Villa Médicis. In addition to the quality of their execution, the various documents, produced around 1930, offer a hypothesis for the reconstruction of the city of Siena in the 14th century. This astonishing set of projections shows a vision of the city as it might have appeared several centuries ago. The graphic corpus is made up of four documents: an elevation of the Piazza del Campo, an overall plan of the city of Siena, a second detailed plan of the city of Siena in the 14th century and finally a particularly intriguing aerial view.

While his proposal brings together a reading of reality (that of the early twentieth century, at the time of the survey) with a morphological analysis of the town in the Middle Ages, there remains a sensitive part of the city whose depth is difficult to estimate. This observation marks the starting point for a methodological exploration of these documents. Based on the graphic analysis of the corpus, the aim is to draw up a few implicit lines of thought on the contribution of projections to architectural representation.

In order to assess the distance the architect may have taken and to understand the place given to projections in the graphic narrative, it is useful to begin by considering the spatialization of the documents. The idea is to use an analysis of the projective coherence of Hourlier's drawings to create a three-dimensional model of his hypothesis. By comparing this 3D model with the geometric representation of the current state of the town of Siena, it is possible to estimate, or even quantify, the differences at three levels: topographical, morphological (at least for the buildings still standing today) and semantic. In addition to the avenues that this approach opens up for the study of Hourlier's work, it could also be of interest in examining the evolution of figurative methods.

Comparison between the model obtained from a photogrammetric survey and the model produced from Hourlier's drawings.


3D model based on Hourlier hypothesis drawings (Restitution of the town of Siena in the 14th century)