Valencia Poster

New Methodological Teaching Tools

in Architectural Freehand Drawing

by Balazs MEHES PhD

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Proportion Meter – Giant Horizon – Compass Map – Projected Demo

Working with the Proportion Meter - determination of extreme oblique lines. By joining the drawing board’s top edge outfitted with the Proportion Meter to the view’s detail in question, structural oblique lines might be impartially controlled.

Objects

By the help of original tools facilitating the workflow of linear perspective, I intend to close up weaker students to the average. My chief challenge is to popularize simple measuring devices based on self-control. Introducing new items, my preliminary demo should equally be transmitted to every course participant.

Relation between Master Picture Plane and the drawing board (lower and upper edges).

Outdoor experiment with the Proportion Meter – fixing a gable’s slope within the Master Picture Plane.

Methods

The Proportion Meter helps for beginners to determine the inclination degree of oblique lines.

Possessing large surfaces apt to lodge off drawing vanishing points, the Giant Horizon spectacularly controls convergence.

Operating with more than two vanishing points, the Compass Map helps in controlling multiple convergences.

Lay outs of Giant Horizon and Compass Map 

The “Projected Demo” can be applied in any teaching phase when it is highly desirable to share pedagogic ideas about drawing’s sequence or technical realization with a huge audience, wishing to inspire every single participant through personal example at the beginning of new tasks just to be observed quite like constructed.

Convergence controlling steps with the Giant Horizon’s prototype (elastic strings guided by pins faithfully follow converging lines).

Experimenting with the Compass Map – convergences for more than two vanishing points.

Results

The Proportion Meter (eventually combined with the Master Picture Plane) has proved to be useful first of all at the object drawing stage for beginners with non-European preliminary training. My patented invention has been working well also in teaching of students in Engineering who like to measure slowly and leisurely. It helps students in Architecture in catching of delicate extreme oblique lines like gutters at street drawing items. The portable device’s principal practical use is due to its objective error measurement capacity.

My convergence controlling tools have been generally approved in every course.

The complex technique of Projected Demo needs further tests experimenting different conditions. Its simplified variation is the Playback Demo.

The Projected Demo democratically transmits teacher’s live pattern to every course participant in equal quality.