Selecting a GOOD Precedent
Precedent Uses
City backdrop on the riverfront for a site
- You can select a bad one?
- You need to UNDERSTAND and CONVEY THE IDEAS and CONCEPTS behind the work
- The goal of precedent research in architecture is to have an understanding of what has come before, and use that knowledge to help define and develop your design concepts.
- Using a precedent creates a reference between your design and another one
- It can show you how to solve examples, details
- It can teach you about the architecture of the other place and help develop design ideas for your space
Calm Ocean for a site
Let's Try Some Examples
- Examples?!?!
- I thought we were looking at precedents
- Examples and precedents are used interchangeably.
Calm lake side retreat for a site
But Each site it inherently different
Yes, but no matter what structure gets built the water becomes an outdoor experience for each setting
Relationships
- Water promotes an exterior activity for the site in question
- Proportionally, the structure would be a mire spec compared to the backdrop the site is expressing
- All are in a similar local, close to the water
Conclusion
What is a Precedent ?
What do they have in common?
- All are near water
- Water is the reoccuring theme
- Concept: water is a natural element that no matter where the site is it can be enjoyed and enhanced by the water characteristics
- Something done or said that serves as an example to authorize or justify a subsequent act of the same of analogous kind.....
- Thank you Merriam Webster Dictionary
Why use a Precedent?
Architecture
- Can create meaning in your design for not only you, but the client
- Helps to better communicate an idea you are trying to achieve by finding an example of one that already does
Precedent Study