​Comparative assignment

For this module, our assignment is a comparative assignment. This assignment focuses on investigating historical works to not just enrich student proficiency in architectural language, design and ideas but most importantly to develop and hone students’ historical and architectural criticism skills. Through the study of an existing building (from a list issued by the lecturers), we will be able to communicate and expand our own architectural vocabulary and develop design concepts. In a group of 7-8, we are required to conduct precedent study analysis on specific buildings via site visits and through on-line forum discussion, sketch analysis journal, verbal and digital presentations. The precedent study analysis project should help clarify questions of “why” the case study is historically, culturally and architecturally inspired and “how” the design concepts derived from the past have influenced and/or been reflected in the case study, and by extension how these can be developed and expanded to be creatively and innovatively integrated into a prospective design project. 

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There are two parts for this assignment which are:

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​Part1: Precedent Study & Analysis Sketch Journal which takes 25% of the 50%

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