Project 1 | Precedent Study & Analysis
architecture
culture & history I
santa maria delle carceri | plato
part a | online discussion forum
In our first project of Culture & History I, students were required to form group of 5 to conduct this precedent study analysis on specific building through drawing, online forum discussion and verbal presentation. On-line group forum is used in this exercise as an effective virtual learning discussion platform for students to work as a team to help each other in exploring the precedent studies of a chosen building with cultural, historical and architectural significances.
On-line Group Forum Task:
Each group is required to collectively address the questions below via TIMES WikiSpace discussion forum. As such each student in the group needs to only select just one set of questions. All discussion must be posted in TIMES Wiki Space 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?
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part b | precedent study & comparative analyses journal
The Precedent Study and Comparative Analyses sketches and Comparative Analysis Report of 500 words form the Precedent Study & Comparative Analysis Journal. This journal consists of illustrative and abstractive diagrams, and annotations, which includes clarity drawings of actual and conceptual design ideas of floor plans, building sections, analyses diagrams and sketches expressing and in-depth comparative investigation of a selected case study. All sketches are to be drawn on at least 80 gram A4 drawing papers.
Using the information gathered in Part A: On-line Forum provides precedent study and comprehensive comparative sketch analyses of the case study. You are required to generate in-depth precedent analyses that include the accounts listed below:
1. Related illustrative Architectural Historical Timeline in chronology order that highlights and explains the standing of the case study in Architecture History.
2. With reference to the timeline generates comparative analyses of the case study with the before and after architectural style.
3. With reference to the timeline explain the technology development and advancement related to the case study.
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part c | analysis presentation board | individual
The A2 presentation board consists of illustrative and abstractive diagrams, drawings and annotations of the precedent study and comparative analysis of the selected case study. The drawings should include actual and conceptual design ideas of floor plans, building sections, analysis diagrams and sketches expressing clarity and indepth investigation of the precedent studies. Precedent study and the analysis presentation board should be on an A2 board only and strictly hand-drawn and hand-written.
You should find as much information on your assigned building as possible. Some projects have more information available than others. Your assignment is to provide an in-depth analysis of the building and provide thorough reflections of the questions listed in the subsequent section.
Analyses should include:
A. Answers to the Precedent Study Analysis questions below:
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)
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