Aims Building on the urban historical research gathered in the initial tutorial task (TT1), the aim of the next task is to extend your graphic and analytical skills as 3rd year architectural design students through further original research and fieldwork that will: • enhance both professional and general historical knowledge of the evolving architectural fabric of Adelaide • provide hands-on experience emulating contemporary practice in professional heritage consultancy that contributes substantively to development planning processes and the associated dialogue between local government planners, architects, historians and other heritage professionals Task Select an architecturally interesting older building on the same town acre that you investigated for the TT1 assignment and that you regard as a good example of the dominant typology of the streetscape and/or local architectural character to which it contributes. Limit your selection according to these additional criteria: • it should not already be a listed heritage place (with the exception of heritage places listed before 1993, without criteria) • it should, ideally, be at least a century old. (Note: if no buildings of that vintage remain on your acre, select the oldest that survives and consult your tutor) The specific tasks will be to 1. Write an expert description of the architectural style, construction, and typology of the selected historical building 2. Investigate and concisely outline the social and development history of that particular property by tracing the titles (and any subdivisions along the way) back to the original owner/builder. Consult and interpret any other relevant sources that may provide further understanding of the historical development of the town acre documented in the first assignment through the case of the selected building/property. 3. Analyse and assess the merits for heritage conservation of the selected building with respect to its particular history and built context (i.e. ‘local architectural character’, ‘typology’, ‘streetscape’, etc..) 4. graphically document and explain the architectural qualities and character of the selected building and its immediate built context through a concise set of accurately scaled and annotated architectural drawings. These shall include (but are not limited to) the public/street elevation, (probable) interior plan and section, key architectural details, roof + site plan, small-scale axonometric projection of the building in its immediate context illustrating the urban morphology and pattern-language of the built-up town acre in which it sits today. Questions To inform and develop your argument, these are some of the specific questions you will need to address and investigate accordingly through your contextual and historical investigations: • What is the ‘type’ (villa, cottage, row-cottage, bungalow, etc…) and the architectural style(s) of the building, and which are its defining features? • What materials and construction methods was it built with? • How does it reflect the types, styles, technologies and principles (etc..) that were typical (or unusual?) in the building culture of South Australia at the time of design and construction? • Who built it, and for whom? • What group and socio-economic strata of colonial South Australia’s fast growing and culturally diverse migrant society did these builders and initial occupants represent? • Who has lived in the building since its first occupants, and has its form or function changed over the years? • Has this building been associated, directly or indirectly, with events or developments of broader social or historical significance? • Etc., ….. (i.e. this is not a complete or exclusive list)