POV-Ray: architectural analysis and computer rendering

The images shown below were created using POV-Ray (Persistence Of Vision Ray Tracer) software. While conventional 3D software relies on drawing tools for modeling, POV-ray generates images based on a textual description of the objects, in a language specific to the software, but based on common graphic primitives (box, sphere, cylinder, etc.), as well as Boolean operations on these graphic primitives.
The exercise therefore asks students to break down the object they are studying into basic geometric entities according to an analysis consistent with architectural semantics, then to reassemble the shapes obtained so as to recompose the object, ending up with rendering computer-generated images.

Without any operational objective, the aim of this exercise proposed to students between 1995 and 2002 was to reflect on composition according to grammars of forms.