This project is an on-site exercise where students have to sketch and documents the physical and intangible 

qualities of the buildings as well as the immediate context of the site. It can be from an element as broad as 

the urban planning itself down to the smallest detail of the ornaments used in the building.

As a start, it is COMPULSARY for all students to sketch the plans, sections and elevations of the building 

that the group has measured, as an expression of the students’ understanding of the building. From there, 

students can explore other parts of the building and its context.

Some of the physical aspects may include building or structure such as a bridge; architectural elements 

such as windows, doors, five-foot ways; architectural features such as ornaments, keystone, arches over 

windows, carvings, tiles layout; construction details such as staircase, roof structure; the physical context –

overall urban layout, street furniture; traditional transportation such the trishaw.

The intangible aspects that can be captured are people of the place doing their daily activities; cultural 

elements such as clothes, furniture, glass and china, food; traditional trade – incense shop, street side 

cobbler, other family businesses; urban qualities such as the rhythm created by the repetition of roof 

volumes, the serial visions and vistas, the circulation nodes.