Week 1 – Bioclimatic design workshop

Lecture slides (under development)

Bibliography for the lecture slides

  1. Thermal delight in Architecture – Lisa Heschong
  2. Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values – Yi fu Tuan
  3. Psychoanalysis of Fire – Gasteon Blanchard
  4. The timeless way of building – Christopher Alexander
  5. A pattern language – Christopher Alexander
  6. Building, dwelling, thinking – Martin Heidegger
  7. The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment – Reyner Banham
  8. House Form and Culture – Amos Rapoport
  9. 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.IngersollT. 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. 

  1. Name of the house and a breif history.
  2. Location, climatic data and classification of the climate using the Koppen system. (will be explained in class)
  3. Graphical representation of the climate as explained in class. (Use the links above, find the nearest weather station, please graphical representation on the slide)
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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 

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