Site Analysis Part Deux

Renee Cheng, AIA Article

Cheng, Renee. Analysis, Research, and Reviews of AEC Technology: Lachmi Khemlani, Ph.D. Questioning the Role of BIM in Architectural Education. AECbytes Viewpoint #26. July 6, 2006. http://www.aecbytes.com/viewpoint/2006/issue_26.html.

Holy Model!

Site Analysis Part I

These three images show some of the abstraction process, the editing of resulted forms.

Site Analysis Part I: episodic descriptions of found relationships

These two studies are part of an analysis of a site in Washington D.C. The intent is to analyze the site based on perceived boundaries and the what constitutes those boundaries-- whether it is made up from a series of masses in perspective or a continuous skin of a building, etc. The intended result was to have episodic descriptions of found relationships. The analysis abstracted the language of each boundary and the result shows a series of analyses layered on top of one another. The bottom image is one of the images I pinned up in studio. We had a conversation about an image communicating versus evoking. As the bottom image stands, it is only evoking, but it is not communicating enough about place or Washington D.C. In the upper image I tried to root the analysis in the perspective I chose for that specific analysis. There still seems to be a layer of information gathering left out or ways to see how I made my decisions. 

Program Analysis Part I

This is the first part of the program analysis for a Public Radio International station in Washington D.C. The development first of text as program both in physical proportion to the necessary size of the program and the importance of the figure of the program formally. The idea was to develop drawings that evoke ideas about the operation and performance of the program in many ways-- to have many isolated drawings of the whole and that all of the isolated drawings communicate to one another and provide many answers for the program.

Research/Travel Proposal