AlICe

Title
Year
Virtual Systems – Actual Objects: Rendition of Morphosis ' Compositional Principles in the mid 1980s
2018
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Medley I/II
2018
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand’s Clockwork
2018
Le squelette de la Maison du Peuple : hypothèse de restitution 3D
2017
Espaces de processus/Espaces d'analyse. Description graphique de mécanismes géométriques compositionnels et représentationnels. Los Angeles dans les années 1980 : morceaux choisis
2017
Jean Prouvé - 3D short movies
2016
Caractérisation de formes architecturales. Une approche expérimentale intégrant complexité et intelligibilité des représentations numériques
2016
Study and Rendition of Jean-Baptiste Hourlier's projection drawings
2016
Architectural Analysis & Computer Process IV
2016
Morphosis Drawings and Models in the Mid 1980s: Graphic Description of Graphic Thinking
2016
Architectural Analysis & Computer Process III
2015
Architecture « résolument » numérique : Paradigm Shift vs. paradigme albertien ?
2015
Immeuble Bessonneau à Casablanca - Hypothèse de restitution de l’état originel
2015
Reduce to Understand: a Challenge for Analysis and Three-dimensional Documentation of Architecture
2015
Analyse architecturale, modélisation 3D et narration filmique : un regard original sur quelques objets corbuséens
2015
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand - Representation as Instrument
2015
Architectural Analysis & Computer Process II
2014
Education in Architectural Analysis through Hybrid Graphic Means: a Setup for Critical Thinking
2014
Architectural Analysis & Computer Process I
2013
Aménagement du Hall des Beaux-Arts par Lucien-Jacques Baucher
2013
Baucher-Blondel-Filiponne - 3D short movies
2012
La complexité inhérente aux modèles numériques et le paradigme de la représentation architecturale - Brèves considérations sur les pratiques contemporaines
2012
Jacques Dupuis & Albert Bontridder - 3D short movies
2011
Photomodélisation de la Maison de Verre de Paul-Amaury Michel
2010
Van Buuren House Orthophotographic Survey
2009
Al Taybeh 3D Photogrammetric Survey
2008
Architectural analysis and relevance of digital representation techniques - An educational experiment
2007
Peter Eisenman's Houses I to X
2002
EXPLORER: A Procedural Modeler Based on Architectural Knowledge
1997
POV-Ray: architectural analysis and computer rendering
1995

Places Royales Françaises. Réflexion d’une logique d’édification à travers une corrélation entre une analyse sémantique et un signal géométrique

Author(s): Axel Ricbourg, Quincy-Jones Deldaele

Supervisors : David Lo Buglio
Submitted on September 2018

The research carried out in this thesis takes advantage of a ‘low-level’ analysis. It focuses on the analysis of elements on an architectural scale (Deldaele and Ricbourg 2018) through the examination of facade spans belonging to seven remarkable French royal squares. These spaces, built around the 17th century, offer significant stylistic coherence. Through a photogrammetric survey of one span of each square, the aim is to cross-reference their semantic (and geometric) structures to demonstrate the existence of common compositional and stylistic rules. These rules served a political purpose, which was to consolidate the royal authority over the whole of France.

The hypothesis is that these squares respond to a strict compositional logic that draws on the notion of module. These façades articulate ordered spans that are repeated to form each wing of the squares. To support this approach, 7 royal squares were studied. These were designed either by Jules Hardouin-Mansart as King Louis XIV's architect, or after him.

The creation and use of morphological signatures as part of this research meets two objectives: firstly, to verify the possibility of reducing complex data sets to ‘intelligible’ forms of analysis, and secondly, to evaluate the capacity of these new types of visualisation to renew our view of bodies of heritage objects. It should be remembered that these methods are primarily intended to provide assistance with morphological analysis and not to replace the expert's gaze.