Physical models can vary in application, scale, materials, and use. The advantages of physical modelling lie in its materiality, its tactility, the way it is perceived visually, and can be manipulated directly. Models capture ideas, concepts, realities in a representation system, that is inextricable connected to the use of this model. Five main categories: models for town-planning research, building models, construction and detail models, interior models, and special models.
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Partnership of Learning Construction Through Model Making: Case Study or Designing?
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6445-5.ch015
Abstract
Project-based learning offers an engaging instructional method to make learners active constructors of knowledge. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of learning in two project-based learning of construction through model making in architecture using a case study and by designing. Model making is an innovative and time-consuming approach in teaching construction as this approach rely heavily on student-teacher partnership mimicking the studio learning. Learning construction through model making needs students to take an active role and to be ‘in-charge' of their learning and learning process. The study employs a survey to 78 participants of undergraduate architecture students. The results of this study demonstrated architecture students learn construction effectively using the model making method. This project-based learning allows students to have construction knowledge to consider buildability in their architecture design studio. The result can be used to improve teaching and learning of construction in architectural education.