Course content

To understand a building, its construction and current condition, documentation can be a tool for creating necessary knowledge beyond perceiving just its form. Also, in the case of cultural heritage management, from making alterations to preservation, documentation is the initial step in the process.

The point of the departure in this course is the examination of a traditional building through documentation of its structure, surfaces, joinery and structural integrity from a mechanical aspect. This forms a base whether you want to make alterations, transfer architectural qualities to another context or if you seek to protect the structure in a cultural heritage management perspective.

The student will learn different basic methods for measuring, documenting and sketching up structures and objects and presenting them in a report. The methods are both traditional, conventional and high-tech.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

The candidate understands how photos, drawings, material analyses can be used for documentation.

The candidate can explain how different methods can be used in documentation and measurement of objects.

The candidate can explain the context in which different scales are used when documenting.

Skill

The candidate can use different scales when measuring objects.

The candidate can use methods such as basic outline and outline for documentation of existing objects.

The candidate can use simple methods for listing and sketching along the way.

The candidate can use a diary in the documentation work.

General Competence

The candidate can carry out a survey of a structure and produce simple surveying drawings.

The candidate can compile and present the documentation in a simple report.

The candidate can communicate the results of the documentation work to other interested parties.

The candidate can use equipment and aids necessary for the documentation work.

The candidate can describe structures and buildings in text and pictures.

The candidate can describe the documented construction's behavior through illustrations.

The candidate can describe the material quality of the construction.

The candidate can describe the surfaces of the structure in text and pictures.

Learning methods and activities

Learning should take place partly in classrooms and partly through practical work. The student will learn methods and rules for surveying and drawing documentation. Structural analyses. Exercises.

Excursions to selected objects.

Specific conditions

Course materials

Gamle trehus, Universitetsforlaget 1996, Forfatter: Tore Drange/Hans Olav Aanensen/Jon Brænne, ISBN 82-00-21389-7 Bygnadsuppmätning,

Riksantikvarembetet Forfatter: Peter Sjømar, ISBN 91-72-0917-62 Dokumentasjon og analyse, Bygningsdokumentasjon Kompendium, Arkitekturhistorie NTNU.

Lecture material

Magnussen, Kjeld 1977. Hus. Teikning og tilrettelegging. Avdeling for Etnologi, IKS, UiO. (Kursorisk lesing)

Kyosi Seike 1997, The Art of Japanese Joinery