Parti is like a diagram, which literally means a "party line," hence a choice. It outlines the essence of spatial organization of a building plan, and is likely to assist reaching an understanding of the building as a pattern. In other words, we may call parti the scheme, which gives the building program a tangible Form, and yet it is elastic and beyond 'shapes and dimensions'.
POCHE
Poche, which the architects, in the Beaux-Arts days, must use to blacken the solid parts of a plan to indicate the thickness/thinness of a building envelope so that the 'carved' out cavities of the building is shown. It also shows the scale of a room in relation to the human body, the proportion, and the texture of the spaces.
Although parti may be buried in poche's richness, poche portrays the tangible spatial quality - the ambience, and more importantly the envisaged traces of the human body and the human inhabitation of a room.
(Architecture Design Studio 3 Course Outline and Project 1, Page 11)
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