Between Survey and Communication. On Distance Experiences

The paper presents the results of a research and educational process, developed during the period in which the pandemic situation required to overcome distances by experimenting with new educational and applicative approaches in the field of surveying and representation. The aim of the process is to define an approach to the survey of architecture and its graphic communication, using different representative techniques, not as a simple adaptation to contingencies but as an opportunity for in-depth study and exploration of new possible horizons. The results, synthetically outlined in this contribution, show the multiple analytical possibilities, through drawing, starting from indirect experiments, based on documentary sources, and specific experiences of direct and integrated instrumental survey. The main objective of transmitting the role of architectural representation as a tool for analysis and as a means of visual communication has led to elaborations in which the management of digital images through three-dimensional models and two-dimensional representations is combined with critical-interpretative graphic syntheses. In this kind of drawings, the most effective communication strategies are identified, in line with the main features of the architectures analysed.