The sub-program “The Architectural Project” concerns itself with the actual object of architecture, in particular the building, the design as manifest in models and drawings, and the materialization of ideas in the project. The research group “The Building: types and models” (AP-1) holds that the architectural project at the scale of the building represents a rich body of knowledge that can be made explicit through comparative and interpretive study.
The group continues a long tradition at the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft of investigating the composition of architectural projects (as the simultaneous expression of formal, material and cultural aspects) in a comparative fashion in order to offer a knowledge base for architectural debate and practice. This group relies on methodologies such as critical plan analysis. The output of the group also encompasses analytical studies (types) as prescriptive studies (models).