Form a group of between 3 to 4 students. Each group is required to find TWO natural or man-made elements from actual observations, books or internet which you believed to have certain underlying design principles. This could be identified especially if the elements have some repetitive components, gradual enlargement or reduction in scale, gradual rotation, or other predictable modifying principles. You may use the whole natural or man-made elements or only certain part of the elements.
Then, the group should analyse and explain the underlying design principles in terms of shapes and forms, i.e.: prediction of how the forms or shapes in the natural or man-made elements were formed and translate them into shape rules. There is no limitation on the number of shape rules that can be created. The group then needs to produce THREE pavilion/gazebo designs using the shape rules derived from each element.
LEARNING OUTCOME:
1. To Identify and describe the process to analyse existing designs using shape grammar method.
EXERCISE
REFLECTION:
Shape grammar teach us how to analyse the existing design with the help of shape grammar method. We can develop the process of design while applying the rules.
