Project 01_Task 04: Three Components of Architecture

In this task, you are required to develop a series of diagrams which denote an understanding of the issues described within the list of the "Three Components of Architecture."

1) SIZE & SHAPE

What is the scale or relative scale? 
Primary geometric influences from squares, rectangles, circles, ellipses, curves, cubes, solids, etc?
proportioning systems

2) TREATMENT

In what ways can you manipulate these sizes and shapes?
opacity, transparency, translucency, reflectivity 
illumination (affects of natural and artificial light)
light-dark relationships (contrast)
visual density, thickness or thinness

3) ORIENTATION

How do you position the sizes and shapes?
placement, displacement, edge (periphery) v. center (core)
field (surface) v. system (frame)
proximity & juxtapositions
building to ground relationships: in ground, on ground, above ground
building to sky relationships
building to context relationships: foreground, middle ground, background relationships
figure/ground relationship
external, internal, & interstitial relationships
What is the approach to a size or shape within existing conditions?
What is the directionality, redirection, and/or reversal?
Cardinal exposure; north, south, east, west
orthogonal (horizontal & vertical) and/or diagonal
 up/down, left/right, front/back
longitudinal v. transverse
details, joinery, connectivity

We have gone through this list together in class through discussion. Some of the concepts in the list are open-topic, abstract and inspiring. In order to help us produce diagrams to convey these information, we can borrow the 12 analytic elements and diagram format presented in Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas and Parties (Clark & Pause, 2012). An excerption of the book has been handed out in class.

Homework:
Please produce analysis diagrams following the elements and format of Precedents in Architecture. Print the final diagrams on two sheets of 11x17" paper. The 12 analytic elements are:

Structure
Natural Light
Massing
Plan to Section
Circulation to use
Repetitive to Unique
Unit to Whole
Geometry
Additive and Subjective
Hierarchy
Symmetry and balance
Parti