Seeing Through Cross-sections: Implementations of an Age-Old Graphical Form on Landscape Description

After centuries of use and age-old empirical origins, the theoretical and practical process of intersecting an object in a three-dimensional space with a plane and representing its shape, commonly known as “cross-section”, it is still the foundation of architectural and territorial representation. Despite this, the critical and inventive possibilities linked to the vertical plane study, especially if applied on the landscape description, do not take advantage of extensive theoretical speculations and practical experimentations. In fact, the experiences related to this way of use are less practiced and theoretically deepened in comparison with those applied to the zenithal view in mapping.