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Teaching GuideTerm Higher Technical University College of Architecture |
| Grao en Estudos de Arquitectura |
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| Architectural Analysis 2 |
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| Identifying Data | 2017/18 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Architectural Analysis 2 | Code | 630G02017 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Second | Obligatoria | 9 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| INTRODUCTION TO THE CASE STUDY | Introduction. Organization, objectives and methodology. Each year the course focuses on the study of a theme, which may be the work of an architect or a general topic. This theme will be presented at the beginning of the course. |
| INTRODUCTION TO THE GRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE ARCHITECTURE | What does architectural project mean? Learning how to read a project. Basic concepts for an introduction to analysis. Diagram as a means of expression |
| FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS | The functional content of architecture. The functional structure as basis of architecture. Characteristics of the itineraries. Typology. Type and model. |
| SPATIAL ANALYSIS | Space and light as essence of architecture. The perception of architecture through its itineraries. Strategies to represent and analyze space. |
| LIGHTING ANALYSIS | Strategies to represent and analyze light. Light as vector to envisioning spaces. Natural direct light, refelcted, blur, shadows. Light control and new technologies. |
| TOPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS | The “genius loci”. Choosing a plot. The adaptation to the site: tension and harmony. Interior spaces, exterior spaces: connections. |
| TECHNOLOGYCAL ANALYSIS | structural systems as a means on the materialisation and the meaningfullness of the architecture. |
| VISUAL ANALYSIS | Recognizing the visual appearance of an object. The shape as a start and the shape as a consequence. The generative process of shape as a connection between mass, space and surface. Geometry: graphic proposal for a morphological order. Geometric analysis. Module. Modulor. |
| ANÁLISE FORMAL | Recoñecendo a aparencia visual dun obxecto. A forma como principio e a forma como consecuencia. O proceso xenerativo da forma como relación entre a masa, o espazo e a superficie. Xeometría: proposta gráfica para a ordenación morfolóxica. O concepto de módulo. |
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