Resumen de Section Drawing as a Designing Tool
Belén Butragueño Díaz-Guerra, Javier Francisco Raposo Grau, María Asunción Salgado de la Rosa
Section plays a fundamental role in architectural design. It is in the section where we can define the relationship between matter and space, between inside and outside, between “above” and “below”. Plan and section are two fundamental tools, which usually work together. However, the plan is usually considered a much more abstract figure, with a much less anthropomorphic convention. Throughout history, its value as a designing tool has never been questioned. Instead, the section has traditionally been considered a three-dimensional communication tool and not so much a designing tool. It was the Modern Movement that began to position the section in its rightful place, although we could find previous examples of the use of section as the main defining factor of design, such as Adolf Loos’ Raumplan. In recent years, we are witnessing a different approach to the concept of communication, especially in the Anglo-Saxon environment, with the emergence of new conventions such as the “inhabited plane”. This article aims to review the most innovative publications in relation to the concept of section with the purpose of opening new experimental pathways in the communication of the project.
