documenting site

The diagraming of a site is familiar territory in architecture school. Before starting any project, and creating a form which responds to its context, a thorough site analysis is undertaken to document the range of activities, and typologies of usage present in a site. Building uses, congestions during parts of the day, important proximities, circulation routes: these diagrams give a quantitative analysis of a place. The space response to the space, and the building responds to the existing typology. The architecture transcend this analysis; the analysis is not the ends, it is a beginning step in the journey of creating a qualitative experience for its participant.

Understanding comes after documenting, but documenting is not enough to construct experience.