Architecture in painted space: reconstructions for tactile translation

The spread of practices and devices designed to make cultural heritage accessible has expanded the possibilities for bringing blind and visually impaired people into contact with works of art through reliefs, bas-reliefs, and three-dimensional models. In painting, however, tactile translation poses specific challenges, especially when understanding the work depends on the perspectival construction of space: transposing only the outline into relief makes figures and objects recognizable but does not convey the geometric relationships that establish their position, distance, and hierarchy. This paper proposes considering tactile drawing as a tool for interpretation rather than a simple transcription of the image. The methodology begins with an analysis of the painting’s perspective construction and continues with the simplification of information and its tactile codification; in cases where the spatial component is significant, it proceeds with perspective reconstruction, understood as the transition from two-dimensional representation to an explorable three-dimensional configuration. The research connects the theory of representation, descriptive geometry, haptic perception, and accessibility, treating perspective as a bridge between the visual image and tactile space: the goal is not to reproduce the painting, but to make accessible the relationships upon which its spatial structure depends.