Project 1: Onsite Observation Journal and Video
This project is an on-site exercise where students have to observe, sketch and document the physical and the immediate context of the site. It can be from an element as broad as the urban planning itself down to the smallest detail of the ornaments used in the building. Some of the physical aspects may include building or structure such as a bridge; architectural elements such as windows, doors, five foot ways; architectural features such as ornaments, keystone, arches over windows, carvings, tiles layout; construction details such as staircase, roof structure; the physical context – overall urban layout, street furniture; traditional transportation, etc. The cultural aspects that can be captured also are people of the place doing their daily activities; cultural elements such as clothes, furniture, glass and china, food; traditional trade – incense shop, street side cobbler, other family businesses; urban qualities such as the rhythm created by the repetition of roof volumes, the serial visions and vistas, the circulation nodes.
This project is an on-site exercise where students have to observe, sketch and document the physical and the immediate context of the site. It can be from an element as broad as the urban planning itself down to the smallest detail of the ornaments used in the building. Some of the physical aspects may include building or structure such as a bridge; architectural elements such as windows, doors, five foot ways; architectural features such as ornaments, keystone, arches over windows, carvings, tiles layout; construction details such as staircase, roof structure; the physical context – overall urban layout, street furniture; traditional transportation, etc. The cultural aspects that can be captured also are people of the place doing their daily activities; cultural elements such as clothes, furniture, glass and china, food; traditional trade – incense shop, street side cobbler, other family businesses; urban qualities such as the rhythm created by the repetition of roof volumes, the serial visions and vistas, the circulation nodes.
As a start, it is COMPULSORY for all students to manually draw the plans, sections and elevations of the building that the group has measured, as an expression of the students’ understanding of the building. The building my group has been assigned to is the Geographer Cafe in Melaka.
A. Journal
The sketches are to comprise at least 2 each of these categories:
1. The Genius Loci
2. Cultural Attributes
3. Technical /Construction details
We need to produce 10 onsite manual drawing that give a strong idea of the place that they have carried out the Measured Drawing exercise based on categories specified above.
A. Journal
The sketches are to comprise at least 2 each of these categories:
1. The Genius Loci
2. Cultural Attributes
3. Technical /Construction details
We need to produce 10 onsite manual drawing that give a strong idea of the place that they have carried out the Measured Drawing exercise based on categories specified above.
The final outcome of individual journal.
B. Video
A 3 to 5 minutes video that capture the process of measuring building and is required to contain one of these themes:
1. History and Architecture
2. Culture and Architecture
B. Video
A 3 to 5 minutes video that capture the process of measuring building and is required to contain one of these themes:
1. History and Architecture
2. Culture and Architecture
Project 2: Report and Photo book
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 in-habitation of the building. Students are required to submit photo book as part of the report.
Within the same group for the measuring exercise, students are required to prepare the following:
a. Report (5000 words)
b. Photo book (50 photos)
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 in-habitation of the building. Students are required to submit photo book as part of the report.
Within the same group for the measuring exercise, students are required to prepare the following:
a. Report (5000 words)
b. Photo book (50 photos)
Report of Geographer Cafe (Methods of Documentation and Measured Drawings)
Through this project, I was able to learn how to record measurements as well as the history of a building. Together with my group members, we learned the importance of teamwork and conservation. All buildings that are historically significant to us should be conserved for the future generations.
Project 3: Measured Drawings & Model
In groups of assigned number of members, depending on the size and complexity of the building to be measured, students are to do a measuring exercise on the particular building, taking all physical information of the building, from its location to its spatial layout as well as details. Each group will be given laser measuring devices and a 30 meter measuring tape. Students may bring along additional tools such as papers, pencils, clay and camera that may be useful in getting and recording all the data obtained.
2 set of A1 sized drawings (one with dimensions and one without dimensions) and 2 sets of A3 sized drawings (both without dimensions) comprising the following;
- Key plan
- Location plan
- Site plan incorporating the roof plan
- Floor plans
- Elevations
- Sections
- Site sections
- Exploded isometric / axonometric
- 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
- Details – construction, architectural, decorative elements / ornaments (minimum one each)
In groups of assigned number of members, depending on the size and complexity of the building to be measured, students are to do a measuring exercise on the particular building, taking all physical information of the building, from its location to its spatial layout as well as details. Each group will be given laser measuring devices and a 30 meter measuring tape. Students may bring along additional tools such as papers, pencils, clay and camera that may be useful in getting and recording all the data obtained.
2 set of A1 sized drawings (one with dimensions and one without dimensions) and 2 sets of A3 sized drawings (both without dimensions) comprising the following;
- Key plan
- Location plan
- Site plan incorporating the roof plan
- Floor plans
- Elevations
- Sections
- Site sections
- Exploded isometric / axonometric
- 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
- Details – construction, architectural, decorative elements / ornaments (minimum one each)
Link to Measured Drawings
Photo of Final Model
Through this project, I was able to learn how to record measurements as well as the history of a building. Together with my group members, we learned the importance of teamwork and conservation. All buildings that are historically significant to us should be conserved for the future generations.