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Architectural Project Definition
The architectural problem statement should frame, explain, and clarify a real architectural problem such as missing, non-fitted, deteriorated project in the specific area of the country to solve the problem with architectural-design-solution.
Therefore, the tile of the thesis projects can be included three substance in general. First, the title of the project should address a project that missing in a particular area to support the development plan of the country such as health, educational, public services, housing, or commercial buildings, site, or centre (as an example project of tourism village in 2017-2018). Second, the title of the project can be a revision, revise, reaction to a wrong constructed, under-construction, or designed projects that it included some critics based on the deviation of the project from the objectives, users, or context. In this kind of projects, the researchers should re-program, re-plan, and redesign the project based on the depth critical thinking to elaborate better idea as an instant of this project (Project of the School of Architecture in 2015-2016). Third, conservation projects that targeted to fix the project in better condition such as renovation, rehabilitation, and conservation-preservation are themes of those projects (Gikondo vitalization project 2016-2017).
After approval of the theme and topic by the thesis committee, according to the title of the thesis project, students should explain the architectural statement of the problem as the thesis proposal (Borden & Ray, 2000). Thesis proposal includes all part of chapter one of the thesis that it present as a proposal with recommended literate and the methods in the whole research (Ellison, 2010). After approval of the proposal, the students should start the structure of the research by chapter one as the Architectural Problem Statement. The problem statement should be supported with some documentations through the development plan sources and the person visiting and interviewing to address the specific architectural problem that the thesis candidate is going to deal with that. For this reason, it is highly recommended to look for a real case, missing aspects, and adapted map (Frayling, 1999).
Architectural Studies
In this part, students should develop their own idea through deep studies on other projects, theoretical productions, and historical critics. This part should result to a theoretical framework to should what are the most significant architectural elements, aspects, and items in the theme of the research those should be taken into account by the researcher in the whole study. Current books, journal articles, and speeches are highly recommended to apply in this chapter.
6.4.3 Architectural Methods and Analysis
Students in the part should select the most adapted methods and techniques (Groat & Wang, 2002) for the research based on the efficiency and sufficiency (Silverman, 2004; Silverman, 2010) according to those valid, reliable, and repeated (Neuman, 2006) among other researches and between researchers. Those methods are the most common methods and techniques to analyse the architectural components and compounds in chapter 4. Therefore, methods and techniques should extract through a deep study on methods that it calls as methodology. Data analysis includes four main part such as precedents analysis, context analysis, site analysis, and data analysis. These four parts support each other to achieve reliable findings for designing through scaling of the analysis form macro to micro-processes.