Architecture: reading a building

Learning to look at a building: orientation and light, structure, openings and solid walls, materials, human scale and an invented passive house with its decisions, with a route for drawing the school's facade.

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  1. Reading a building
  2. Five questions for any building
  3. The structure
  4. Openings and solids
  5. Materials tell a story
  6. Hot climate and cold climate
  7. A passive house (invented example)
  8. One building, four moments
  9. Draw your facade

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