Week 1 – Bioclimatic design workshop
Lecture slides (under development)
Bibliography for the lecture slides
- Thermal delight in Architecture – Lisa Heschong
- Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values – Yi fu Tuan
- Psychoanalysis of Fire – Gasteon Blanchard
- The timeless way of building – Christopher Alexander
- A pattern language – Christopher Alexander
- Building, dwelling, thinking – Martin Heidegger
- The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment – Reyner Banham
- House Form and Culture – Amos Rapoport
- The Phenomenology of Spirit – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
http://handmadearchitecture.org/bioclimatic-design-sites-and-tools/
Suggested reading activity
Browse through chapter 2-3 from coursebook and the Koppen system. – Otto H Koenigsberger, O. H., Ingersoll, T. G., Mayhew. Manual Of Tropical Housing & Building
Required Activity (due before start of class 2)
During the entire course, you shall use a local vernacular building (single standalone room) / small monument / small room (that you want to redesign) to analyze and document inferences. You shall be documenting your weekly progress as a Pechakucha Presentation, that will be shared with the rest of the class – Use this presentation as a template. Upload your ongoing work here before the class so that it can be reviewed weekly.
See final work of a few past students here 1, 2,3,4,5, 6 (these are project reports)
For week 1, please develop 5-6 slides that include most of the following in the presentation. Everything marked bold, is mandatory.
- Name of the house and a breif history.
- Location, climatic data and classification of the climate using the Koppen system. (will be explained in class)
- Graphical representation of the climate as explained in class. (Use the links above, find the nearest weather station, please graphical representation on the slide)
- Architecture:
- Plans and elevations / perspectives (hand drawn, if not readily available)
- General orientation and layout of spaces.
- Materials of construction and the construction systems (draw or find sections) of floor, Walls, roofs
- Windows and openings – location, direction and size
- Surfaces and textures
- Description of interior atmosphere
- Anthropology
- How architecture relates to their work and livelihood.
- Purpose of each space and how occupants use spaces.
- Interior objects – ornament and ornamentation, fabrics
- Occupants and their lifestlye (when, during the day / night do they occupy spaces)
- Clothing and fabrics
- Geography
- Local resources and skills
- Size of land holding and usage of land
- Relation of the four elements, fire, earth, water and wind
Additional reading
Book: Dwellings : the vernacular house world wide / Paul Oliver.London : Phaidon, 2007.
Book: Dwellings : the house across the world / Paul Oliver. Oliver, Paul, 1927
Book: Atlas of vernacular architecture of the world / Marcel Vellinga, Paul Oliver, and Alexander Bridge. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2007.
Book: Built to meet needs : cultural issues in vernacular architecture / Paul , Oliver, Paul, 1927- Amsterdam ; London : Architectural, 2006.
Book: Homeplace : The Making of the Canadian Dwelling Over Three Centuries,Ennals, Peter, Holdsworth, Deryck, 1998
Book: Casas hechas a mano y otros edificios tradicionales : arquitectura popular / John May, May, John, 1950-Barcelona : Blume, 2011.
Book: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0006/000683/068316eb.pdf