Project 1-
ARCHITECTURE
PRECEDENT STUDY
This project focuses on investigating historical works to enrich architectural design and ideas. Through the study of existing buildings, we are able to communicate and expand their own architectural vocabulary and develop design concepts. In a group of 5, we are required to conduct precedent study analysis on specific building through on-line forum discussion, analysis drawings, verbal and board presentations. This precedent study analysis should help clarify the research question of “why” that specific building is historically, culturally and architecturally importance; and “how” the design concepts derived from that particular building.
SALISBURY CATHEDRAL
Project 3a- Online Group Forum
Each student in the group needs to select one set of questions. The analysis of questions should come in the form of:
a. clear and legible photographs and scanned sketches
b. short brief /write-up. Brief General/Background
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?
Project 3b- Precedent Study & Analysis Sketches Presentation and Analysis Report
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The precedent study and analysis sketches, and analysis presentation board consist of illustrative and abstractive diagrams, drawings and text. The drawings should include actual and conceptual design ideas of floor plans, building sections, analysis diagrams and sketches expressing clarity and in-depth investigation of the precedent studies. The above sketchbook studies is about question 2.
Analysis should include:
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. Illustration of Precedent Study Analysis in relation to the series of building conceptual elements listed below – each student is to select and conduct analysis of one element from # 1 to 5 and to synthesize the design concept Partí of # 6.
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)
Project 3c- Analysis Presentation Board
The precedent study and analysis sketches, and analysis presentation board consist of illustrative and abstractive diagrams, drawings and text. The drawings should be compiled and been drawn on an A2 board only and strictly hand-drawn and hand-written.
Reflection
Discipline Specific Knowledge
Lifelong
Learning
Communication
Skills
Through the project, I was learn to translate all our information into sketches and using all the sketches to emphasis what we want to analysis. There is some ways to effectively analysis our findings in a proper way and I am still finding the way to show it clearly and nicely. After the studies of Salisbury Cathedral, I learned more about Gothic Architecture and found that the one specific architecture style in the ancient really affected a lot in the precent architecture building. Besides that, drawing and sketches are really important and the easiest way for people to understand what the building is and what we want to show.