Analytical Models

The Analytical Models course aims at furthering the understanding of architectural composition and perception, through thematic, analytical study, making active use of design visualisation and model-making techniques.

This precedent-based designerly study initiative addresses issues of the architectural composition and perception.

Aspects of study include:

• Development of study approaches for the benefit of precedent-based composition analysis;

• Explorative visualisation of architectural concepts and identification of design phenomena;

• Design-driven enquiry making use of various digital modelling applications;

• Design-driven enquiry making use of physical scale modelling and graphic representation.

The course can be considered as an interactive learning environment and laboratory for thematic formal study. The exercise brings together ambitions of composition research and evocative, analytical modelling with the didactic opportunities of tangible, physical modelling. The aim is to stimulate the participating students to develop meaningful insights and knowledge on the level of architectural designing and to develop professional skills in the field of design visualisation and communication.

Assessment on the basis of process, end-result, documentation and analysis. The maximum marking period is 10 work days.

Repair

The design project is awarded a grade that is a whole or half number between 1.0 and 10.0. Students pass the course with a 6.0 or higher. With a grade below 6.0: students who presented assessable work during the course are allowed to do a repair to change the grade into a ‘pass’. The repair is unsupervised and needs to be completed within 2 weeks after the end of the course. When the repair is unsuccessful, the student needs to follow the entire course again.