EWV: Re-drawing operations: methodology questions and results

Abstract

As it was defined since the writing of the application proposal of our research project, the main purpose of redrawing original design working drawing should have been that to update the buildings’ representation that then could serve as an essential basis for their study. In practice we gathered any available information from the archives, from photographic surveys, from the field work measurements and from the authors’ statements about selected single buildings and then patiently tried to integrate and synthesize it into the minimum necessary number of plans, sections, elevations and details, that could offer a sufficient definition of each built work. That is to say that since the beginning we planned to re-draw the design drawings of a consisted number of works. So in terms of methodology the first question to explain is why we decided to act in this way, while many of you may simply observe that it always preferable to study and divulge the original drawings about an architectural piece of work.