The students are required to document the spatial form of the city to note the key attributes that drive the urban form. The objectives are: a) to characterize the urban forms through Serial Vision; b) to establish the relationships and roles of the three urban design elements and c) to identify DISTINCTIVE aspects or patterns in in their layout. The students will be given with basic urban study techniques such as figure/ground, serial vision, collage city, space syntax, etc. Therefore the students are required to analyze and apply those techniques in order to evaluate the spatial (tangible) and/or social (intangible) patterns in the city. You are required to a) illustrate the urban distinctive character, b) present the tales of your wishes and c) evaluate through the comparison of three cities. The submission format will be online and digital reports.

 

This Assignment relates to the Assignment 1 in the way that the students are expected to document the city spaces. This is a location based study to establish the relationships and roles of the three urban design elements, especially focusing on the urban structuring principles.

 

Students are expected to capture interesting and meaningful photographs related to tangible or spatial (nodes etc.) intangible or social (urban life) contexts of these locations. It is important that the sketches/images are supported by one or more sentences on explaining why you felt that space is ‘interesting and meaningful’. A sense of urban-design vocabulary is expected out of the Assignment.

 

Online Research: We will also dedicate one session to find online photos and images of the other two cities,

for the tangible and intangible aspects. 

 

Diary of visit (Y/N)

The students will be taking rather a poetic stand. The Diary is a collection of thoughts, experiences and

evidences (not photographs) to support them. In the end the students will be able to narrate their ‘being’ in

the city. It could also include the collection of info pamphlets, tickets or any such valuable objects that could

offer them the ‘memory’ of the place.

 

OBJECTIVES : 

1. To experience the urban space and take part in urban life

2. To allow the students to explore the potentiality of space, form and their relationship to aspects of use and cultural meaning

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES : 

1. Identify, discuss and critique various urban design theories and ideas.

2. Explain how ideas, cultural values (intangible) and topography and other site conditions (tangible) can offer to significant perceptions and experiences.

3. Record through and present the fundamental urban research techniques in spatial and perceptional studies.