Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage

Teaching unit ARCH-P8123 - AIM2 - Master 1 & 2

Teachers: David Lo Buglio (coordinator), Denis Derycke, Michel Lefèvre

The AIM "Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage" module is divided into two compulsory seminars:

-The History and Theory of Architectural Representation seminar aims to develop specific theoretical knowledge of the history and theory of the graphic representation of architecture.

-The seminar on digital acquisition and graphic representation of built heritage offers a theoretical and practical introduction to survey techniques.

The aim of this module is to approach architectural representation in a different way from its practical application, and to explore the rich historical literature on the subject and learn how to exploit its content. Secondly, by experimenting with different digitisation techniques and methods, the aim of the course is to give students the resources, both technical and epistemological, to carry out an in-depth analysis of a heritage object and its context (topographical, urbanistic and stylistic). Students must also compare the theoretical point of view they have developed in the (History and Theory of Architectural Representation Seminars) with their digitisation work, in order to produce sets of critical and original representations.

2016-2019 theme - Drawing study of Auguste Choisy's treatise ‘L'art de bâtir chez les Romains’

To introduce the heritage survey and documentation exercises, an initial study is made of a set of iconic drawings from the history of architectural representation. By analysing works such as Auguste Choisy's treatise ‘L'art de bâtir chez les Romains’, the aim is to help the student to situate the graphic and projective qualities of these documents.

To do this, one of the selected plates is analysed through a work of re-drawing. In this particular case, the original drawing is first deconstructed in order to locate all the information it contains about the architectural object. Then, using the elements and compositional logic identified, the re-drawing aims to extrapolate the original drawing to create a new fictional object.

Featured Projects

2016-2017

Florian Thiry & Jean Trottet

2017-2018

Quincy-Jones Deldaele, Margarita Aguado Sanchez & Alfonso Santoni Jr

2018-2019

Myriem Saoud & Pauline Virtt