Drawing the Cultural Landscape to See the Project. Three Ways of Looking: Student, Geographer and Architect

Abstract

We propose research about the graphic essence of landscape. Drawing to see and seeing to project. Thus, we will use a comparative method along three complementary ways of looking related to space. The student will looks for the graphic soul of the space, the geographer will try understanding the “geo-graphy” of the visibility in public spaces and the architect will try to perceive the essence of the place in order to use the correct tools for intervening on it. In the three cases, we have chosen the Cultural Landscape as the study case. Thus, lot of topics, from heritage till nature, should have been drawn in order to understand the territory. The student of architecture will learn to underline the space characteristics, the geographer will add the graphic tool to his analysis of the public spaces, and the architect would try drawing the invisible characteristics of the space in order to formalize the architectural project. In this article we will show that the dialogue between the three graphic languages is an interesting tool for seeing the soul of a cultural landscape in order to intervene on it.