Exercise 6.2—Typological Process The typological process is one of the main concepts in the morphological approach developed by Muratori, Caniggia and their colleagues. It is a succession of types in the same cultural area—diachronic changes—or in several cultural areas in the same space of time–synchronic changes. The exercise starts (as in the former case)

with the definition of the case study area. The student should define a circle around his home (the suggested radius is 250 m, although it can be adapted). The student should focus on the buildings of the study area. Based on fieldwork, cartography, and software for the interactive visualization of maps and satellite images, the student should be able to identify the main building types. While it would not be feasible to have access to the building plans (interior organization of rooms), the goal of the exercise is to characterize a simplified typological process of the case study area.
After identifying the building types, the student should be able to define a typological process, gathering all building types in a line of evolution through time. Finally, the student should be able to present the results of the exercise in a powerpoint (5 to 10 minutes), including a typological process’ table, with building facades or simple plans (see Fig. 6.16 for an example by Caniggia and Maffei); and a sequence of photographs (one for each type).