architecture portfolio
Loh Wei Shuen
methods of documentation & measured drawings
project 1: sketchbook & journal
Students are to produce 10 sketches that give a strong idea of the place that they have carried out the Measured Drawings exercise based on categories specified below. As a start, it is COMPULSARY for all students to sketch the plans, sections and elevations of the building that the group has measured, as an expression of the students’ understanding of the building.
The sketches are to comprise at least 2 each of these categories:
1. The Genius Loci
2. Poetic Quality
3. Cultural Attributes
4. Technical /Construction details
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project 2: building report & video
The report is an additional document that accompanies the set of drawings for the building that is measured during the semester. Basically, the report will elaborate on the significance of the building measured from various aspects such as architectural, historical and cultural. In this report, students are required to relate the architecture of the building to its significance, highlighting how the two support the inhabitation of the building. Students are required to prepare a presentation, photobook and a video about their site. A video documenting the building is required to provide 3D experience of the building.
Within the same group for the measuring exercise, students are required to prepare the following:
a. Report (5000 words) either using Approach A – Research on History and Architecture or Approach B – Research on Culture and Architecture
b. Video that contained one of these categories:
1. History and Architecture
2. Culture and Architecture
project 3: measured drawings
The project will be carried out throughout the semester where students will be assigned to measure and document a historical / architecturally significant or heritage building and translate all the data into a set of drawings. Each group will have to only measure one particular building assigned by the course coordinator. Apart from doing the measuring exercise on site, students will also need to do additional research in order to piece together all the important data about the building. The model will provide additional physical information of the building.
List of drawings students are required to produce as well as a physical model
Key plan
Location plan
Site plan incorporating the roof plan
Floor plans
Elevations
Sections
Site sections
Exploded isometric / axonometric
Details – construction, architectural, decorative elements / ornaments (minimum one each)
A physical model to show the construction / structure of the buildings using ONLY balsa wood OR white
model boards as either one section OR an open-able full model
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