its always helpful to think of these possibilities:
- program precedent (ie. find a project that has a similar program to yours and see how it is organized, break it down, study the % relationships bet. spaces, amount of sq.ft. allowed for circulation, expected occupancy-to-program ratio, etc.)
- idea precedent (ie. some project/art piece/etc. that tries to materialize an idea like yours... and, then, diagram it... to see how it works, how its author tried to give it shape, etc.)
- negative precedent (ie. a project like yours that doesn't work... and why? this can be done as a variant of the program precedent)
- site precedent (ie. if you have a peculiar, different, problematic, etc. site, find a precedent with a similar condition and see how the author solved for it). [this also works for structure/tectonics, materiality, etc.]
at the core, of course, is ANALYSIS... after all, it is through the act of investigation, unfolding, breaking down into component pieces, drawing, redrawing, mapping, investigating again, etc. where one tries to make sense of the precedent and "translate" it for ones own use... after all, what good is a precedent if you can't really use it to help you think though your own project?
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