First, the course tries to equip students with the skills that they will need to represent any idea or proposal: drawing in plans and perspective, and modelling.
On the other hand, the students must familiarize themselves with, and understand the elements that architecture uses, namely elements as structures, stairs, walls, doors, windows, roofs etc. and learn that construction is the science that shows how to relate materials through techniques to build a project.
As the course advances in the process of designing, they will start to understand that architecture is a formal invention based on the knowledge of the original conditions that are transformed and of the techniques that make it possible to be constructed.
The course also tries to explain that architecture is plural and must deal with cultural backgrounds. For this purpose, the student will have to analyze different architectures.
Since it is a practical subject, based on the student work within a design studio environment, the course consists of a series of exercises that lead them to get the capacities objective of the subject:

-First observation and drawing: deducting proportions from a photographic view from an outstanding building exterior or interior. Objects and spaces’ representation.
-Exercises of transformation of architectural elements.
-Analysis and drawing of the disposition of a building and the elements of its construction.
-Exercises of transformation of the analyzed building, in which the site conditions are given as a starting point, so that students are committed to respecting, facing real problems in parallel to form or other aesthetic considerations.

Public revisions of the work, as well as explanations, lectures and visits allow the student to find references to deep on any particular design project solution.