ARC3001 · Architecture design studio 5

Overview

This unit provides opportunities for you to extend emerging design challenges and contexts in a vertically integrated, semester-long studio project. It increases the emphasis on design as a process of investigation, critical observation, and experimentation, encompassing a range of complex issues inherent in the production of architecture including: material, structure, program, site, history and representation. Studies in the unit will strengthen a focus on developing design as a visual language and process of cultural production, as well as a set of tools and practices that support engagement with broader communities. You will develop an approach that responds to a detailed understanding of community and context, and addresses defined connections to a range of emerging 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. Extend capacities of architectural tools, methods, and ways of working as an architect;
2. Demonstrate application of architectural tools and communicate design decisions through 2D and 3D drawing, model making, and visualisation;
3. Synthesise a design approach and outcomes using relevant tools and methods;
4. Reflect on architecture's connection to multiple social, political, environmental, and economic issues;
5. Evaluate design decisions with respect to community and wider contexts;
6. Analyse design brief and context, and independently establish relevant questions to support design development.

Workload

24 hours a 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.