Teaching environments for artistic design: A study at UFRN
Drawing classrooms, Built environment assessment, Artistic design.
The Architecture, Visual Arts and Design courses use drawing as an important means of communication. In particular, artistic design is the main creative tool, being presented as one of the first curricular components that underlie the courses. This importance given not only to the theme as to the area of representation itself, led the author to reflect on the architectural needs that present themselves in the teaching environment of artistic design. Therefore, the master's thesis had as its object of study the relationship between environmental architectural aspects and teaching and drawing practice. With this, the reading of the theoretical framework started through two thematic axes, the person-environment relationship in the educational project and the assessment of the built environment and its methodological contribution in the school project. From then on, the objective of the research, which is to evaluate the artistic design classrooms of UFRN courses in the context of the built environment, in order to understand the person-environment relationship present during classes. In order to meet the objective, content analysis was adopted as the main analysis methodology, using as methodological procedures for data collection the instruments for assessing the built Environment (especially APO - architectural surveys, observation sheets, interviews and the Behavior Setting analysis). It is believed that this research has to contribute to the field of assessment of the built environment, but it will also bring reflection to new designers regarding the environmental needs that involve the teaching and learning of the practice of drawing. Based on case studies carried out in classrooms designed (in each course) for teaching artistic design, it was noticed not only the main architectural attributes, but the main similarities and differences between the architecture and the pedagogical practice of the courses, the results are presented from three categories of content which are: human-spatial relationships, functional and ergonomic relationships and the construction and environmental comfort aspects. Concluding the work with a reflection on the relationship with the context and the capacity for future adaptation that the environments need to have in order to continue fulfilling the function they received.