Methods and Analysis BK8040 20062007

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Methods and Analysis BK80402006/2007

• Proposal
• Marc Koehler
• Ali Guney
• Karina Moraes Zarzar

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Seminar Course Method and Analysis

• Pedagogy
• Design

• Pedagogy
• Design

• Pedagogy
• Design

Lecture B
Lecture C
Lecture A
Lecture 1 ALI
Lecture 4 ALI
Lecture 2 ALI
Lecture 3 ALI
Lecture 5 KARINA
Lecture 6 KARINA

• Terminology
• Introduction to design assignment (ontwerp
  opgave)
• Ching

• -Ching
• Sp. Relations
• Sp. Organiz.
• Movement
• circulation
• -Program of Requirement
• -Relation Diagram

• -Clark and Pause
• Structural System
• Geometry
• Massing
• Light Fall
• PARTI
• -Steadman

Analysis F(M) O- P Design

• Precedents and Innovations

Precedents and Identity
Report on the oeuvre of an Achitect Due date
31 January 2007

• Assignment Find two projects of the same
  architect.
• Documentation delivered on Seminar 5.
• Analysis presented during seminar 6.

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Course Structure

• Lectures general relevant terminology methods
  terminology of themes ( will be just briefly
  mentioned)
• Seminars themes briefly about lectures
  reinforcing the methods exercises

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Course structure per seminar
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Theme 1 Context
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Theme 2 Program
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Theme 3 Three Concepts in Analysis
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Theme 4 Typology
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Theme 5 Material System and Construction
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Theme 6 Design Precedents and Identity
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Course description

• The Methods and Analysis aims to let students
  develop programmatic and typological knowledge in
  architecture through the study of relevant cases
  as well as an initial knowledge of architectural
  aspects (themes) and the discussion/criticism
  involving each of them in the architectural
  field.
• The course is subdivided into 8 seminars of 3
  hours each and a series of 6 lectures on methods
  and 6 themes discussed during the seminars (one
  theme per seminar till the sixth seminar). The
  themes are Context, Program, Concepts in
  Designing (parti, conceptual design and
  representation), Typology, Material System
  Consruction, the Use of Precedents in Innovative
  Designs, the role of Design Precedents in
  embodying Identity. They will be analyzed with
  the support of the method explained earlier in
  the morning lecture.
• At the beginning of the course, the group of
  students is divided into sub-groups of two
  students that will describe and analyse one
  project in class according to the theme of the
  day. The first seminar will describe the course
  structure, provide part of the terminology and
  concentrate on the theme Context.
• The second seminar focus on the Program in
  general. Key words are function, form, time,
  space, composition. We refer to Francis D.K.
  Chings Architecture, Form, Space, and Order.
  Chings method is applied to read the precedent
  in relation to form, space, and movement. With
  Chings method, they will describe and analyze
  spatial relationships (elementary), spatial
  organisation and circulation (movement). In
  spatial relationships they are concerned with
  cases of adjacency, interlocking spaces, space
  within a space, and spaces linked by a common
  space.

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Course description

• In spatial organization they are looking for
  organizations such as linear, centralized,
  clustered and radial. Finally, they are concerned
  with the experience of moving through the
  building. The students search for entrance
  characteristics, circulation (within the building
  as well as approaching the building, the form of
  circulation, and so on (Ching 1996).
• The third seminar discusses the Theme three
  analytical concepts Design Concept,
  Representation, and Parti. For this phase, we
  refer to Roger H. Clark and Michael Pauses
  Precedents in Architecture Analytic Diagrams,
  Formative Ideas, and Partis as well as to Bernard
  Leupen et al. in their book Ontwerp en Analyse.
  These methods and strategies are applied to
  understand some formative ideas that might have
  been used by the architect. To produce the parti,
  the students explore some geometric and
  structural possibilities of the project in
  question as well as the massing and the light
  fall (Clark and Pause 2005) and combine these
  aspects with their analysis with Ching. Design
  Concept may also refer to these aspects, but also
  to metaphors and/or programmatic ideas.
  Analytical Representation refers to how to
  visualize the results of an analysis and refers
  to scale, graphics, reduction and additions of
  information as well as diagrams.
• To the earlier methods we add a third method to
  describe topological representation and to learn
  about dimensionless representation. Here we refer
  to J.P. Steadman (Steadman 1983) and Tzonis
  (Tzonis 1987). At this moment, the students are
  concerned with the functions of the building and
  how they are linked spatially to each other
  (visually, physically, acoustically, etc).
  Finally, the students analyze and describe
  qualitative aspects of relevant spaces such as
  human scale, proportion, symmetry (in the sense
  of Tzonis Classicall Architecture), color and
  texture.

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Course description

• During the fourth seminar, we will discuss the
  theme typology. The discussion are on the one
  hand related to the meaning of typology over the
  years and on the other hand on how to use
  typology as an instrument of analysis and design.
  
• The fourth method is F(m)OP reasoning system that
  is applied as a device to represent architectural
  knowledge. Here we refer to Alexander Tzonis
  Huts, ships and bottleracks Design by analogy
  for architects and/or machines (Hutten, Shiffe,
  und Flaschengestelle - Tzonis 1990a). The
  students apply the F(m)OP reasoning system to
  expose and describe the hidden principles
  (performance, operation and form) embedded in
  their case studies.
• the sub-groups are rearranged into groups of 4
  students, have to provide the documentation of 2
  projects that belong to one architect. These two
  projects are then analyzed and compared according
  to themes and methods selected by the students.
• During the fifth seminar, the students discuss
  the importance of Material and Construction
  systems. Here we focus on tactile or sensorial,
  perception and focus on the position of some
  architects true materials (Loos), floor becoming
  a wall (Ben van Berkel), no money no detail
  (Koolhaas). We also discuss about the relation
  between form and construction in architecture
  over the centuries (Leupen).
• The lecture is about the use of design precedents
  in innovative designs and is meant to support the
  presentations of the students during the sixth
  seminar, the comparison of two building belonging
  to one architect, as well as the further research
  on the oeuvre of the selected architect (essay).

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Course description

• During the sixth seminar, the students present
  the result of their analysis of two buildings of
  one architect. They selected the themes (at least
  2 themes) and methods to analyze their themes.
  The students shows the essences of these two
  buildings (according to the selected themes) and
  reflect on the similarities and differences in
  the use of concepts related to the themes. The
  sixth and last lecture, Design Precedents and
  Identity, gives material to reflect on the use of
  precedents by the architects in study.
• During the seventh and eighth seminars, the
  students continue their study of the earlier
  selected architect by analyzing a series of
  designs reflecting on the themes and their
  transformation and mutations through the years.
  These themes used in the oeuvre of the architect
  can be found applying one of the methods on the
  series of drawing and looking for similarities,
  as well as extracted from texts where the
  architect indicate his sources and/or the
  formative concepts embedded in the designs. The
  result is described following the F(m)OP system.

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Objectives

• By the end of the course, students should be able
  to
• Bring together an adequate documentation of
  projects
• Understand basic architectural concepts (themes)
• Understand basic principles of composition
  (themes)
• Critically perform a descriptive analysis of a
  precedent through numerous methods (Ching, Clark
  and Pause, Steadman and in particular the
  F(m).O.P) and diverse approaches (composition,
  function, context, construction - according to
  Leupens Ontwerp en Analyse)
• Analyze the oeuvre of architects in relation to
  their worldviews (themes) and their use of
  precedents
• Make a proper presentation of the analysis

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Assignments

• Documentation of two projects of one architect
  drawings, sketches, perspectives, pictures, texts
  
• PowerPoint presentation of the analysis,
  comparisson and parti of these projects referring
  to specific themes. The students select
• The architect
• the projects,
• the themes (at least 2 themes discussed during
  the seminars)
• which method(s) (learned during the lectures and
  seminars) will be applied to analyze, describe
  the findings and produce the partis
• Essay on the oeuvre of the earlier selected
  architect.The students
• Continue with the themes and methods of the
  Production 2
• Expand their study to other projects of the
  architect
• Use F(m).O.P. to analyze and to describe the
  results. Write the essay according to the guide
  lines of the lecture how to write an essay of
  bk8030
• Attention
• results are always delivered in a CD as well as
  in a printing version.
• Groups max. 4 students.

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Literature

• REQUIRED LITERATURE
• Leupen, Bernard et al. 1999. Ontwerp en Analyse.
  Rotterdam Uitgeverij 010.
• Ching, F.D.K. (1979) Architecture form, space
  and order
• Clark, R.H. and Pause, M. (1985) Precendents in
  Architecture
• Steadman, J P. 1989. Architectural
  Morphology-Topological (graph theoretical)
  representations of plans
• Tzonis. A. 1992. Huts, ships and bottleracks
  Design by analogy for architects and/or
  machines. In Research in Design Thinking.
  Edited by N. Cross, K. Dorst and N. Roozenburg.
  Delft Delft University Press pp 139-164.
• Tzonis, A. and L. Oorschot. 1987. Frames, Plans,
  Representation, Conceptdictaat inleiding
  programatische functionele analyse. Delft TU
  Delft, Faculty of Architecture, Art.nr. 236
• Meiss, Pierre von. 1990. Elements of
  architecture from form to place . New York E
  FN SPON, An Imprint of Routledge. (Oorspr. titel
  De la forme au lieu, 1986)
• Moraes Zarzar, K. 2003. Breaking the Type.
  Milan GA2003
• Moraes Zarzar, K. 2004. Precedents and
  Identity. Milan GA2004
• Christian Nobert-Schulz. 1976. The Phenomenon
  of Place. In Kate Nesbitt (ed.). Theorizing a
  New Agenda for Architecture, an anthology of
  Architectural Theory 1965-1995. New York
  Princeton Architectural Press. 1996, pp. 412-428
• RECOMMENDED LITERATURE
• Jong, T.M.d. and H. Engel. 2002. Typological
  Research. In Ways to study and research urban,
  architectural and technical design. Edited by T.
  M. d. Jong and D. J. M. v. d. Voordt. Delft
  Delft University Press .
• Jong (2002) Mathematical models 24.14 Graph
  theory
• Moraes Zarzar, K. 2003. Use and Adaptation of
  Precedents in Architectural Design, toward an
  evolutionary design model. Delft DUP
• Leupen, Bernard. 2002. Concept and type
• Leupen, Bernard et al. (1999) Design and Typology
• Meiss, Pierre von. 1998. Elements of
  architecture from form to place. London, Spon
  (First Edition De la forme au lieu, 1986)

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Group Presentations

• Group arrangement
• Ali Guney Groups 1, 2, 7 and 8
• Karina Moraes Zarzar Groups 3, 4, 9 and 10
• Erno Group 5 and 6

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Schedule 2006-2007 schakelsemester HBO
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Schedule 2006-2007 schakelsemester HBO
K. Moraes Zarzar