MEASURED DRAWINGS

METHODS OF DOCUMENTATION AND MEASURED DRAWINGS

PROJECT 1 :SKETCHBOOK AND JOURNAL

SKETCHES AND DOCUMENTATION

OBJECTIVES

This project is an on-site exercise where students have to sketch and document the physical and intangible qualities of the buildings as well as 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 such the trishaw.

The intangible aspects that can be captured 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 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

By completing this project i am able to achieve multiple designated learning outcomes that would further benefit me in my studies and knowledge of architecture. Here are the few learning outcomes that I've obtained ny finishing this project.

Ability to identify poetic spaces from existing site
Ability to produce sketches on site
Ability to ‘diagram’ and analyse site characteristics and cultural history
Ability to produce sketches that relates to the genius loci and cultural aspects of the site
Ability to derive sketches from site analysis and site context
Ability to produce proper understandable diagrammatic sketches and drawings

PROJECT 2 :BUILDING REPORT AND VIDEO DOCUMENTARY

DOCUMENTATION

OBJECTIVES

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.

The objectives of this project are as follows: 

To document the significance of the building to accompany the measured drawings
To enable students to analyze the relationship between architecture and the significance of the building as well as its inhabitation

:BUILDING REPORT

VIDEO DOCUMENTARY

By completing this project i am able to achieve multiple designated learning outcomes that would further benefit me in my studies and knowledge of architecture. Here are the few learning outcomes that I've obtained by finishing this project.

Ability to identify spatial arrangement and analytical data from building
Ability to document the essence and significant data from building
Ability to ‘diagram’ and analyse site characteristics and cultural history
Ability to produce video documentary and includes cultural and historical aspects of building
Ability to produce building analytical report from derived data and reference sources such as academic reads and research
Ability to produce proper video documentary and captures the essence of the building and context via diagrams and video clips

PROJECT 3 :MEASURED DRAWINGS AND MODEL

TECHNICAL DRAWINGS & PHYSICAL MODEL

OBJECTIVES

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.

Objectives of Project :
This project aims to produce a set of measure drawings of a historical and/or architecturally significant building or structure in a specific location. A report containing important and historical information of the building will complement the drawings. It is an on-site exercise where students are required to execute fieldwork and hands-on measuring exercise.

PHYSICAL MODEL

By completing this project i am able to achieve multiple designated learning outcomes that would further benefit me in my studies and knowledge of architecture. Here are the few learning outcomes that I've obtained by finishing this project.

Ability to produce proper technical drawings from the building
Ability to document building materials and insert appopriate annontation into drawings
Ability to produce understandable drawings and depth through the utilization of lineweights and transparency
Ability to derive depth through lineweight and transparency
Ability to produce proper technical drawings via computer applications such as: Autodesk Autocad and Rhinoceros
Ability to derive building form, characteristics, conditions and significance into a scaled physical model.