B.arch Synopsis Format

JNAFAU SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE Department of Architecture B.ARCH VIII SEMESTER DESIGN THESIS – 2013-14 FORMAT FOR SYNOPSIS Students must prepare and develop the following sections within their proposals: 1.

Title Page

2.

Introduction and Background of the Study

3.

Research Statement:

4.

Aims and Objectives

5.

Scope and Limitations (Program and site)

6.

Methodology

7.

Inferences

8.

Bibliography / Webliography

1. TITLE: 

State the title of your thesis.

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State a concise subtitle phrase that refers to the idea basis, context or program of your thesis.

2. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: 

Discuss the issues that are central to your design thesis. What is the historical and theoretical context for the ideas behind your thesis? Link the discussion to sources from your annotated bibliography. Discuss the citations.

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Discuss the cultural context of your thesis. In what ways is your project situated in and influenced by the culture in which we live?

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What technical issues can you foresee becoming important?

3. RESEARCH STATEMENT: 

State your research question and discuss your intentions in framing that question.

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Discuss how your research might serve to ground a theoretical position.

4. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 

State the broader aims and specific objectives that you have envisaged for the work

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State the issues, concepts, and questions that are central to your thesis.

5. SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS: 

Discuss exhaustively the scope of the project envisaged by you in terms of the programmatic needs and demands emphasizing on design outcomes.

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State definitively the limitations you will be bound by in your project.

A. Program: 

Discuss why you chose your program (Building typology, thrust area, context, theme etc).

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How is this program a vehicle for the development of the concepts and ideas behind your thesis?

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List and describe the major program activities and uses. State the approximate program size. Discuss the scale of the project as it relates to the site and context.

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Identify the use or user proposed specifically and clearly. Discuss who the client is in general descriptive terms. Discuss the history of the use or user as appropriate.

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Include discussion of the uses in the adjacent and nearby context.

B. Site Statement: 

Identify the site location specifically and clearly. State the setting: city, town, suburban, or rural. Discuss the history of the form and use of the site and context.

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Explain your choice of site in terms of the idea basis of your thesis. Discuss its nature and relevance in abstract terms that make clear how it is understood as a vehicle for the development of the idea basis of your thesis.

6. METHODOLGY 

Discuss what research instruments you will adopt to acquire data/ information (primary & secondary sources) proposed methods of treating and analyzing the data.

7. INFERENCES: 

List major inferences, if any, that you were able to draw from your previous stage (Pre-Thesis, Seminar). Discuss their potentiality vis-à-vis the design directions you wish to explore.

8. BIBLIOGRAPHY/WEBLIOGRAPHY: 

Attach an annotated bibliography of the sources you have identified thus far. In the annotations discuss their potential relevance to your design. Note how your sources have influenced your ideas thus far.

The above contents may be typed and printed in Times New Roman font, point-size 12 on a maximum of Two-A4 size sheets. Annexure as appropriate may be enclosed. Two proposals have to be submitted to the department in the same format as specified above.