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ARCH11-135 | ARCH71-135 | Architecture and Urbanism of Asia Pacific 2032
ARCHITECTURE + URBANISM OF
ASIA PACIFIC
AT1: Presentation, Model, and Essay ‘Looking Backward to See Forward’
This semester-long assessment comprises research on a significant building site and its
designers/ builders as the basis of a short presentation in a tutorial session, including a
physical model. The presentation is followed by an essay on the key design aspects of this
site in terms of context, influences, milieu, and objectives.
The assignment is assessed in two main parts and each student/ team is given a site to
analyse; the sites are allotted in the week 2 class session:
- Part 1 is an analysis of the given site, presented visually and orally to the tutorial group,
including a physical model, conducted in small teams.
- Part 2 embraces the outcome of Part 1 but allows for a broader discussion and analysis
of the builders/ architects and the design, including its significance and the socio-
cultural/ cosmologic/ economic/ political/ etc. features of the context in an individual,
written essay.
AT1/ Part 1 (30% of total mark)

At first, you conduct research on the site of your team and the structure/s on it, including, but
not limited to, its history, geographic location, climate, culture, and builders/ architects, as well
as structural systems, materials, and other pertinent features of the site and the building/s.
Based on this information, you produce a short presentation (ab. 8 – 10 minutes, schedule
TBA) and a physical model, to summarise your research and deliver it to the tutorial group on
a given date.
The presentation and an analytical model should focus on communicating the theoretical
ideas behind the design, not only its visual features. In other words, you analyse the site by
producing material that communicates to other people what you think is essential in the design.
Therefore, the model is not just a scale model of the building, but it should express something
essential about it (structural system, spatial organization and/or hierarchy, material use and/or
joinery, etc.); depending on the nature of the feature, you can build a section model shoving
the structures, a detail model of its joinery, or the whole building with removable elements to
reveal the interior, etc.
Regarding the drawings, photographs, and other two-dimensional illustration, you should
include your own original diagrams and sketches to demonstrate the breadth and depth of
your understanding of the site and the structure/s on it. A compulsory illustration is a parti 1
diagram that visualises the thinking behind a design. The illustration can be based on
drawings, such as floor plans, sections, and elevations, available online or in printed
publications, but then you take this material one step further with your own visual analysis; for
1The concept parti comes from the French term pendre parti, meaning ‘to make decision’, which in architectural
context indicates a basic compositional scheme on which the design is based by using a clear, rational parti as a
design principle.
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example, by adding lines, colour areas and coding, producing parti and/or syntax diagrams or
perspective drawings of how you envision the site or the building. These kinds of visual
analyses reveal the invisible features of the design; for example, spatial hierarchies, circulation
of people, indoor-outdoor connections, cosmological alignments, and the kind. You can
naturally also include other people’s drawings and photographs found online (because we do
not have the chance to visit the sites), as long as you reference them properly in order to avoid
plagiarism.
Deliverables of the team submission of AT1/ Part 1 consist of:

- a physical model (see above the types of models)
o you can choose the scale of your model freely, but its footprint should fit on
a 42 x 42 cm base (the size of the shelves in the seminar room); the height
can be whatever that scale requires
- a presentation (PowerPoint or similar) of a maximum of 10 and a minimum of 8
minutes, delivered visually and orally; the presentation should include, but is not limited
to:
o basic information about the site (location, building period, size, builders, cultural
and physical context, etc.)
o basic information about the architect/s or builder/s
o photographs and other illustration of the site with citations (if not your creation)
o your photographs of the physical model
o parti and other diagrams produced by yourself
o discussion of key concepts and theoretical framework
o analyses of structural system(s) and material(s)
o list of references used for the data of the presentation, preferably citations
within text (surname year) and under each image (e.g., URL) followed by a full
list of references on the last slide of a PP presentation
The presentation files are due on 21 June by midnight on iLearn. The presentations take
place in the tutorials of weeks 7 – 11; presentation schedule TBA. Note that this due date/time
applies to all students, regardless of the presentation date. All students of a team should
submit the same presentation document on iLearn (i.e., it is not a group submission).
Please submit your presentation as one pdf file and name it as <ARCH11-135 (or 71-
135)_ 232_YourSurname_YourFirstName_AT1_Part1
For the assessment criteria, please see the Criteria Sheet (Rubric) on iLearn.
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AT1/ Part 1 (30% of total mark)

Deliverables of the team submission of AT1/ Part 1 consist of:

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