ARC2001 · Architecture design studio 3

Overview

This unit provides opportunities for you to encounter emerging design challenges and contexts in a vertically integrated, semester-long studio project. The studio expands prior emphasis on design processes and sensitive responses to complex architectural issues, including investigation of material, structure, program, site, form, history and representation in architecture. Studies will focus on developing an increasingly sophisticated understanding of design as explorative material practices, a visual language articulated through 2 and 3 dimensional representations and a process of cultural production. This will involve developing an approach that responds to occupant, site, and context, and considers connections to key social, political, and environmental challenges.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

100% in-semester assessment

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Identify capacities of architectural tools, methods, and ways of working in design contexts;
2. Demonstrate application of architectural tools and communicate design decisions through 2D drawing and 3D physical models;
3. Explore a design approach and outcomes using a variety of tools and methods;
4. Reflect on architecture's possible connections to a key social, political, environmental, or economic issue;
5. Evaluate design decisions with respect to occupants and physical conditions;
6. Reflect on design context and respond to questions to support design development.

Workload

24 hours per week including 6 contact hours plus 18 hours of independent study, or equivalent.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.