DESIGN STUDIO OVERVIEW – 86005
ASSESSMENT 3
THEME: UNDERSTANDING TYPOLOGY
KEY SKILLS AND IDEAS: Research methods, interior analysis, presentation techniques.
SUMMARY: The aim of this assessment is to develop core skills in interior research and analysis. Students will work individually on a short report for an interior case study of their choosing to develop an understanding of the relationship between types of inhabitation, space planning and social values.
MAJOR MILESTONES:
Assessment 3 (Friday 9 am - Assessment week 1): Understanding typology. (20% of the overall subject grade).
ASSESSMENT BREAKDOWN:
Inhabitation Typology - Case Study Report
Bound report (portrait A4) and Turnitin .pdf digital submission.
This report must include the following information:
Section 1 - Identification
- Photograph an interior case study of your choosing that you know well, and are able to have complete access to.
• Identify which of the following type of inhabitation typology it is:
- Terrace,
- Single family house,
- Self-contained housing unit.
• Photograph a minimum of three of its characteristics that identify it as one of the above typologies. Provide a short (max. 25 word) statement for each photograph. Through research, you may wish to also consider the specific style of the typology that your case study is, with additional identifying photographs (for example: Victorian Terrace, Georgian Terrace, California Bungalow, Federation home, Art Deco Apartment, modern Apartment etc.).
Section 2 - Examination
- Draw a plan of your case study and compare it with the plan provided for the same inhabitation typology.
• Compare the two plans using parti diagrams and text to demonstrate how your case study differs from the one provided for each of the following characteristics:
- types of spaces provided - what spaces are new, what spaces have been left out, what spaces have been hybridised, what spaces have changed size (2 parti diagrams with max. 50 word statement),
- internal arrangement of spaces - what spaces relate to each other and how do they relate to each other (for example: complete open, closable door, etc.) (2 parti diagrams with max. 50 word statement),
- external arrangement of spaces - what spaces relate to the exterior (such as: street, garden) and how do they relate to the exterior (for example: windows, doors, porches, balconies etc.) (2 parti diagrams with max. 50 word statement).
Section 3 - Speculation
- Based on your knowledge of the inhabitation typologies provided, speculate on the change in social values that have caused the change in the space planning arrangement of your case study, for each of the following values:
• Privacy – how has privacy (placement and size of bedrooms and other private spaces) changed from the inhabitation typology provided compared to your case study? Why do you think it has changed? (max. 150 words)
• Social status - how has social status (placement and size of living spaces and other public spaces) changed from the inhabitation typology provided compared to your case study? Why do you think it has changed? (max. 150 words)
• Efficiency - how has efficiency (placement and size of kitchens) changed from the inhabitation typology provided compared to your case study? Why do you think it has changed? (max. 150 words)
• New social values – Outline what new social values, other than those listed above, may have effected the placement and size of new spaces in your case study (max. 300 words).
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: - Bound portrait A4 report, including a cover page with your name, student number, studio leaders name and word count.
- A .pdf of your assessment, uploaded to the Turnitin Dropbox.
- All work using UTS Harvard referencing conventions.
- Based on your knowledge of the inhabitation typologies provided, speculate on the change in social values that have caused the change in the space planning arrangement of your case study, for each of the following values:
• Privacy – how has privacy (placement and size of bedrooms and other private spaces) changed from the inhabitation typology provided compared to your case study? Why do you think it has changed? (max. 150 words)
• Social status - how has social status (placement and size of living spaces and other public spaces) changed from the inhabitation typology provided compared to your case study? Why do you think it has changed? (max. 150 words)
• Efficiency - how has efficiency (placement and size of kitchens) changed from the inhabitation typology provided compared to your case study? Why do you think it has changed? (max. 150 words)
• New social values – Outline what new social values, other than those listed above, may have effected the placement and size of new spaces in your case study (max. 300 words).
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: - Bound portrait A4 report, including a cover page with your name, student number, studio leaders name and word count.
- A .pdf of your assessment, uploaded to the Turnitin Dropbox.
- All work using UTS Harvard referencing conventions.
Initial sources
Typology: All
• Caroline Simpson Library and Research Collection
• Hill, Jonathan. Immaterial architecture. New York: Routledge, 2006. (Ch. 1)
• Stapleton, Maisy, and Ian Stapleton. Australian House Styles. Mullumbimby: The Flannel Flower Press Pty Ltd, 2003.
Typology: Self-contained housing unit and kitchens
• Klahr, Douglas M. “Luxury Apartments with a Tenement Heart: The Kurfürstendamm and the Berliner Zimmer.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 70, no.3 (2011): 290-307.
• Bechthold, Tim and Julia Reischl. “Kitchen stories: Cuisine Atelier Le Corbusier, type 1.” Contributions to the Vienna
Congress 2012 57, no.1 (2012): 27-35.
• Jerram, Leif. “Kitchen sink dramas: women, modernity and space in Weimar Germany.” Cultural Geographies 13 (2006): 538 – 556.
• Campagnoli, Maëlle. “Cuisine, cooking, kitchens.” Accessed July 1, 2017. https://www.ekokook.com/look-atekokook.html.
Typology: Single family house
• King, Anthony. The bungalow: the production of a global culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. (Ch. 7 looks specifically at Australia)
• Butler, Graeme. The Californian Bungalow in Australia. Victoria: Lothian Books, 1997.
Typology: Terrace
• Getty Trust. “Our Lord in the Attic: A Case Study.” Accessed July 1, 2017.
https://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/teaching/case/olita/building/construction_building.html
• Rybczynski, Witold. Home: a short history of an idea. Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd., 1986. (Ch. 2 and 3)
• Howells, Trevor, and Colleen Morris. Terrace Houses in Australia. Sydney: Lansdowne Publishing Pty Ltd, 1999