ARC3002 · Architecture design studio 6

Overview

This unit provides opportunities for you to test and propose new approaches to emerging design challenges and contexts in a vertically integrated, semester-long studio project. It increases the emphasis on architectural design as a process of investigation, critical observation, and experiment encompassing a range of complex issues inherent in the production of architecture. Studies in the unit will maintain a focus on testing and resolving 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. You will be able to understand the context of your emerging design approach, and your relationship and connection to design practices in the broader built environment.

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. Propose capacities of architectural tools, methods, and ways of working as an architect;
2. Demonstrate application of architectural tools and communicate design decisions through complex documentation, model making and visualisation;
3. Synthesise multiple design approaches and using employing relevant tools and methods;
4. Reflect on architecture's engagement with and responsibility to broader social, political, environmental, and economic issues;
5. Evaluate design decisions with respect to multiple occupants, communities, contexts and histories;
6. Conduct research on relevant design contexts and develop a design research method 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.