architectural culture & history I

analysis sketches presentation & analysis report & analysis presentation board

After done with the online discussion forum, all precedent studies and analysis sketches are to be drawn on A4 drawing papers and the analysis presentation board should be on an A2 board only and strictly hand-drawn and hand-written.

Students should find the information for the assigned buildings as much as possible. The in-depth analysis should be included the following aspects:-

(A) 1. How does the building reflect the spirit of the time and place for which it was built?

2. What are the initial ideas and the design concept?

3. How the initial ideas and the design concept affecting the architecture?

(B) 1. Concept and Architecture analysis (i. Architect and/or Building concepts, ii. Architecture/Style/Identification of Place,

iii. Person-Container-Social relationship)

2. Building massing analysis (i. Material and Structure- geometry of making, ii. Geometry alignment/anthropometry/social geometry/ideal geometry)

3. Circulation Analysis (i. Circulation to Use-Space, ii. Natural ventilation)

4. Spatial Organization analysis (i. Spatial planning & Landscape/Site Siting, ii. Building sequence and process, iii. Public vs. private, iv. Axis, v. Symmetry/Asymmetry & balance, vii. Repetitive to unique, viii. Additive and subtractive, ix. Hierarchy)

5. Building plan-section/elevation analysis (i. Plan to Section or Elevation, ii. Natural light penetration, iii. Significant architectural element)

6. Partí - Culminates and Summarizes (i. gesture, ii. essence, iii, dominant idea, iv salient characteristic of the building)

online discussion forum

Students are required to work as a group to help each other in exploring the precedent studies of a chosen builidng with its cultural, historical and architectural significances.

Each student of a group will need to choose one set of the following questions:-

1. i. Who was the architect or founder of the building?

ii. What was the concept or philosophy of the architect or founder that makes the building historically significant / meaningful?

2. i. Where and when was the building built?

ii. How the context, building period and evolution makes the building historically significant and meaningful?

3. i. What is the form, or shape of the building?

ii. How the form or shape of the building contributes in making the building historically significant and meaningful?

4. i. What is the function or purpose of the building?

ii. How the function or purpose of the building makes the building historically significant and meaningful?

5. i. What were the materials and construction technology or method used?

ii. How the materials and construction technology or method help making the building historically significant and meaningful?