Synopsis No X
6 APRIL 2015
Synopsis No 1: URBANISMName: 1. Chu Szi Wei2. Samuel Teh3.
Sharifah Diyana Syed Hussain4. Tan Wei ShengText: Life Between
Buildings, Using Public SpaceAuthor: Jan GehlYear Written:
Purpose of the theory (Please tick X; you may tick more than one
box)
Identifying an issue or problem within the contemporary
context
Analyzing an architecture to identify a problem or solve a
problem
Solving an issue in a broader context outside of architecture:
presenting a theory/manifesto
Solving an issue within the context of architecture: presenting
a design method
XSolving an issue within the context of architecture: presenting
a theory
Others:
Please complete the following:What are the issues addressed?
How public spaces are affected by social environment.Locations
of public spaces are not planned to provide social
interactions.
What are the design methods/strategy/theories proposed?
By implementing meeting opportunities through public spaces,
which provides activities.Public spaces secluded from the hustle
and bustle of the city.
Features that encourage people to carry out activities.
By designing specific spaces like gardens within the public
space to promote activities, such as sitting area and kiosks.
Relate the text to architectural/urban forms by illustrating one
key image.Justify the selection.
The Highline, New York.It is a public space design for meeting
possibilities among the community.
It also allows high contact intensity among passerby.
Such activities includes picnic, street and art performance.The
Highline is has a degree of separation from the city streets down
below.
20 APRIL 2015
Synopsis No 2: MODERNISM
Name:
1. Samuel Teh
2. Sharifah Diyana Syed Hussain
3. Tan Wei ShengText: In the Cause of Architecture
Author: Frank Llyod WrightYear Written:
Purpose of the theory (Please tick X; you may tick more than one
box)
Identifying an issue or problem within the contemporary
context
XAnalyzing an architecture to identify a problem or solve a
problem
Solving an issue in a broader context outside of architecture:
presenting a theory/manifesto
Solving an issue within the context of architecture: presenting
a design method
Solving an issue within the context of architecture: presenting
a theory
Others:
Please complete the following:
What are the issues addressed?
What is style?
There are as many styles of house as kinds of people.
Lacking Individualism.
What are the design methods/strategy/theories proposed?
Bring out the nature of materials. For example wood and
bricks.
Nature should integrate with the building, by using warm color
tones of earth and leaves.
Building should grow from its site.
The Prairie Style, by using sheltering overhangs and low
terraces.
Relate the text to architectural/urban forms by illustrating one
key image.
Justify the selection.
The Robie House.
The building is formed by the Prairie Style.
It creates an individuality through applying this style.
It uses natural materials to mimic the landscape.
Its structures incorporates brick and steel which blends with
the surrounding.
27 APRIL 2015
Synopsis No 3: POST MODERNName:
1. Chu Szi Wei
2. Samuel Teh
3. Sharifah Diyana Syed Hussain
4. Tan Wei ShengText: Learning From Las Vegas : The Forgotten
Symbolism of Architectural Form
Author: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven IzenourYear
Written: 1972Purpose of the theory (Please tick X; you may tick
more than one box)
XIdentifying an issue or problem within the contemporary
context
Analyzing an architecture to identify a problem or solve a
problem
Solving an issue in a broader context outside of architecture:
presenting a theory/manifesto
Solving an issue within the context of architecture: presenting
a design method
Solving an issue within the context of architecture: presenting
a theory
Others:
Please complete the following:
What are the issues addressed?
Sign is more important than architecture.
Sign as a symbol.
Symbol dominates space.
What are the design methods/strategy/theories proposed?
Signs through their form, position and shape identifies and
unifies the buildings.
Symbolic connections are made through space, communicating from
far away.
By using the building as a sign.
Relate the text to architectural/urban forms by illustrating one
key image.
Justify the selection.
Times Square, New York.
Signs are overused until it becomes part of the building
faade.
Signs are used as visual communications.
Signs becomes a landmark of a space.
11 MAY 2015
Synopsis No 4: PHENOMENOLOGYName:
1. Chu Szi Wei
2. Samuel Teh
3. Sharifah Diyana Syed Hussain
4. Tan Wei ShengText: Semiology and Architecture
Author: Charles JencksYear Written: 1968Purpose of the theory
(Please tick X; you may tick more than one box)
Identifying an issue or problem within the contemporary
context
Analyzing an architecture to identify a problem or solve a
problem
Solving an issue in a broader context outside of architecture:
presenting a theory/manifesto
XSolving an issue within the context of architecture: presenting
a design method
XSolving an issue within the context of architecture: presenting
a theory
Others:
Please complete the following:What are the issues addressed?
Giving meaning to architecture.
How meaning portrays architecture.
What are the design methods/strategy/theories proposed?
Architecture is given a meaning by the people.
Meaning can be multivalent. It differs from one individual to
another.
Meanings could represent opposites. This can be seen in the
relationship between light vs. darkness, big vs. small and outside
vs. inside.
Reinforcement of meaning.
Relate the text to architectural/urban forms by illustrating one
key image.
Justify the selection.
Beijing National Stadium.
Another name given to the building is the Birds Nest
Stadium.
This is an interpretation made by the people, based on the
representation of the building exterior that looks like a nest.
However there are other interpretations made such as the chaotic
steel beam structure which represent a forest.
The Birds Nest Stadium concept is reinforced by the context and
its given name, whereas the stadium could look like other
things.
