R ecording and D ocumentation

1. Recording and Documentation Vernacular architecture Gultekin Cizgen 095119

2. Recording and Documentation • During the past century a great many vernacular buildings have been lost to the world, through accident, neglect, decline of traditions or deliberate demolition. • The numbers destroyed are incalculable and some measures and the drawings of the losses of the world`s heritage may sometimes be unreliable. • Reliable recording and documentation however, is all too often unavailable, or indeed has not been made.

3. Principal Recording and documentations techniques • Architectural Drawing • Photographic Record • Further Documentation

4. Architectural Drawing • mostly used common method is perspective drawing • Single perspective view point • Visual image of the building • Sketched in line with texture and tone • Simply to draw but can be spatially restricted • Two perspective view point - Greater three-dimensionality

5. Problems and Solutions • A frequent fault in freehand perspective is the use of multiple horizons, with lines parallel to the ground plane failing to converge notationally at points on horizon. Its also creates problems when tone is used to express form. • Subject to the theoretical assumptions: horizon is at infinity, using well drawn plan while drawing perspective can gives convincing spatial images that avoids problems. • Still; as system of record all perspectives are dimensionally adequate, but they may have the merit of being drawn from direct observation

6. Historic American Buildings Survey Project (1930) • The systematic recording of building form, materials and details has had many proponents over the past century, with coordinated studies undertaken by such as this survey. • The Cordingley – Brunskill method, for those with no architectural professional experience, offers a system of classified recording by the observation of form and façade details. • Such by these recording system users introduced to more advanced techniques.

7. Most common techniques among perspective • Plan – describes to a consistent scale the features of a building at the ground plane. Most plans are horizontal sections at 1m or more above in order to show windows. • Plan drawings are read best with elevation and section in the same scale. • Section – is a vertical slice between specified points parallel to an elevation. - Relating plan, section and elevation to each other was requiring skill. • Architects often favour orthographic projections which convey a three- dimensional illusion while bringing them together.

8. Most common techniques among perspective • Isonometric plan is placed with parallel sides 30 degree to the picture plane. all dimensions are in a scale but the angle is 120 degree rather than 90. • Axonometric projections Its used when plan measurements need to be accurately described. 45/45 or 60/30 degrees used. Edge dimensions are to scale but diagonals are not. Plan can be projected as from underneath the building and into the roof structure despite the technique can be visually disconcerting.

9. Most common techniques among perspective • Through the many methods on accurate recording of buildings, they each exist in a geographical, environmental and social context. While locational and even cadastral maps may sometimes be available. • Mapping the location of the building in relation to orientation, topography, natural resources, land use, communications, site, settlement pattern, significant structures and aspects of sociospatial organization can be great importance in research. Or even while working on a drawing.

10. Photographic Record • Photographic record can be used as aesthetic purpose or research purpose. Its can be helpful in order to accurate elevations by using photogrammetry techniques. Although using it with aesthetical purposes can be important for documentation of visual aspects of building and building materials. With photography the relation of the building and its environmental setting can be record. Interior details and construction techniques can be also recorded on the survey. even camera or video recordings can be useful taken from various architectural period of time.

11. Further Documentation • Textual documentation is useful for understanding of the former usage of buildings as well as uncovering the history of existing or non-existing buildings. • Although in non-literature or pre-literate societies there were no documentary recordings, there were some oral-history and records which can illustrate the background of invested buildings. • Even today the building stage can be documented for our future.

12. Building process documentations • Some recording process can be recorded through specialized knownlegment, but in some chases there won`t be any need to have professional help. • Preparation of the site • Observance of rituals • The sequence of construction • Gender differentiation and In tasks • The nature and usage of tools • Applied techniques • The number and the weight of the material and components • Economic costs • Temperature changes .. Can be noted.

13. Using – Auto CAD – computer aided design, is the another accurate recording and drawing tool that can be saved as digital data which can easily accessible. • The study of vernacular architecture consists of various aspects, and some of them has shared features in the recording and documentation of buildings. • Despite there no too many valuable recording, using these techniques can keep the values of vernacular architecture for our future.