The subject Building Survey 2 is a central matter of the departmentsŽ curriculum. Its intention is to give a critical and device-based approach to the asset and importance of historical building structures. On the basis of a direct examination of a selected historical artefact, the students are to be taught some diverse methods and techniques, which can offer a science-based observation, analysis, evaluation and documentation of architectural objects. Through the hereby acquired capabilities the students will finally be enabled to introduce an architectŽs point of view to planning processes, which have to deal with protected or historically significant building structures. Therefore the acquired knowledge will not only be of great importance within the well defined but limited work field of scientific research, but also and with growing importance within a typical architectŽs work, who more and more often is confronted with planning tusks in relation to the restoration or modification of historical building structures.
The course will start by treating some basic and well established documentation techniques like hand measurement, architectural sketching and the highly precise techniques of tacheometric measurement and laser scanning. As a side effect of the measurings, the attention is drawn to relevant building features which are of great significance for the reconstruction of growth processes of the structure. These diagnostic findings - which can refer to the architectural form, building typology, construction, decoration, or material changes - are to be mapped using the plans resulting from the measurements. By introducing historical image and text sources as well as the relevant research literature and by comparison to examples of related building typologies, the findings are to be used for an overall documentation and interpretation of the buildingŽs genealogy. During the second half of the semester, this general view is transformed into a concluding paper combining image, text and drawing, which, as the actual state of documentation, is to present the basis for all further scientific and planning processes.
Recommended:
Dirk Donath: Bauaufnahme und Planung im Bestand, Wiesbaden 2008
Riedel, Heine, Henze: Von Handaufmaß bis Hightech II - Informationssysteme in der historischen Bauforschung, Mainz am Rhein 2006
Andreas Bruschke (Hrg.): Bauaufnahme in der Denkmalpflege, Stuttgart 2005
Ulrich Klein: Bauaufnahme und Dokumentation, Stuttgart München 2001
Grossmann: Einführung in die historische Bauforschung, Darmstadt 1993
Wangerin: Bauaufnahme. Grundlagen, Methoden, Darstellung, Wiesbaden 1992
Johannes Cramer: Handbuch der Bauaufnahme - Aufmaß und Befund, Stuttgart 1984
All books are available at the institute`s library
