ASSIGNMENT 3 – Massing & Parti
As designers we benefit from a comprehensive understanding of precedents. We use diagrams to convey information and relationships in a building. By researching and examining examples of similar work, and similar conditions we evaluate and interpret and translate for our own use.
For the next few assignments you need to draw the plan, elevation and section of the building to the same scale. You need to reduce the building to its bare essentials. These diagrams will be developed from the 3 dimentional form and space configuration of the building. These will become the basis of your diagrams.
Assignment 3: Post 10 examples of Parti and Massing to your Blog
Due Date: 09/16/13
Parti
Parti is the dominant idea of the building. It is often referred to as the “big idea”. It is the main organizing thought behind an architect’s design and it is usually represented in the form of a very basic diagram, model or simple statement.
It is the main underlying idea behind any work of architecture.
- Using your examples of your building typology try to recognize the parti of the particular project.
Example of Parti:
Assembly at Chandigarh
Massing
Massing is the collection of patterns. It is the act of composing 3-dimentional forms into a unified and coherent architectural composition
1 Using your examples of your building typology try to show the massing of each building.
Example of Massing :
Assembly at Chandigarh
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