[CNH1] Project 1C: Analysis Presentation Board

The final project this semester for Culture and History 1. We are required to do a presentation board, it is somehow like a summary of what we have learnt throughout the previous projects. Some further research are also required to do for this project. It is also an individual project as well.

The A2 presentation board required 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 sketched expressing clarity and in-depth investigation of the precedent studies. The presentation board should be on an A2 and also the same as the previous project, only hand-drawn and hand-written.

There would be two parts, Part A and B. Part A questions are compulsory and for Part B, we are supposed to choose one question among Q1-Q5, the Question 6 is compulsory for all of us as well.

The analyses for our presentation board should include:

A. Answers to the Precedent Study Analysis questions below:

1. How does the building reflect the spirit and 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 synthesise 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 Sitting, 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 characteristics of the building)

I chose Question 2: Building Massing Analysis. 

Below attached is my A2 Presentation Board on Hagia Irene, Byzantine Architecture's Building Massing Analysis. 

My A2 Final Presentation Board

Reflection

I had quite a tough time understanding the question I chose. But, with the help of research, the tutor and also some references of senior's work I manage to do it. Unsure whether it answers to the question but hope everything goes out well. I have gain quite a numerous amount of understanding towards the architectural I am studying. Like how the domes are builded on top of the buildings, the materials, constructions and many more.