YEARBOOK 2018 - 2019 | XJTLU DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

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ARC002
Architectural Representation and
Communication
2018-2019 YEARBOOK Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
Fanyu Gao
Minjie Cai
Xinying Wu
Zhiqing Zeng
Level 0
( Year 1 | Semester 2 )
Module Credits
5
Module Leader
Martin Fischbach
Teaching Team
Adam Brillhart
Peta Carlin
Kwok On Philip Fung
Christian Gaenshirt
Xuemei Li
Rachael Ouyang
Sofía Quiroga Fernández
Aleksandra Raonic
Lian Tsien
David Vardy
Glen Wash
Yiwen Zhang
Language Tutor
Chengcheng Li
Tiantian Dong (T.A.)
Lihan Huang (T.A.)
Simeng Zhu (T.A.)
Number of Students
195
Focusing on architectural representation and communication, this
module aims to introduce to architectural thinking and visualisation
through lecture and course-based work, including a series of activities,
progressing through research, reading, observation, analysis, writing,
conceptual and spatial thinking, drawing and modelling production.
The module gives students the opportunity to use different techniques:
freehand sketching and one-point perspective, drawing rendering with
different techniques, photography, photomontage, digital manipulation
and modelling. Students are trained to hone their skills through in-class
and out-of-class practice by conducting group research and self-study.
Basic architectural concepts are introduced through a gradual sequence
of exercises.
Architectural Representation and Communication aims to awaken
the students’ creative abilities, develop latent aptitudes and introduce
them to architectural language. By conducting research and producing
analytical drawings and models about architecture, students become
familiar with the basic representational language of architecture and
with the basic communication skills used by architects including reading
and generating orthographic projections, physical models and text-based
descriptions about architecture.
The themes chosen introduce fundamental aspects of architecture to
the students. The first part of the module consists of thorough thematic
research based on graphic and written documents of an existing building.
Students are asked to observe, to describe and to analyze the existing
building case study in order to learn basic notions of architecture.
The second part is an introduction to architectural experience and
perception simulation. The exercise allows students to create an
architectural sequence, a path defined step by step. It is an opportunity
to pass from topological intentions to two- and three-dimensional
representations (scale 1/100). The third part of the module is an
introduction to conceptual and metaphorical thinking in architecture and
an exploration/experimentation with various architectural languages
through orthographic drawings and models (scale 1/50). The fourth part
is an introduction to tectonics in architecture and an opportunity to
design and represent detailed components of a pavilion and to express
the materiality of the pavilion at a larger size (scale 1/20).
Level 00 – Year 1
B Eng Architecture Programme