ARC4031 · Transition architecture studio 1

Overview

The Transition architecture studio 1 is for those entering the three-year Master of Architecture academic program and provides core foundations in architectural design and architectural communications. The unit explores architectural design as a process of investigation, critical observation and experimentation and application in urban contexts while engaging with the three-dimensional and material testing of ideas. Projects will be formulated to introduce key architectural issues such as site, space, context, activity and tectonics. The unit will also develop understanding of two and three-dimensional conventions for representation across a range of media.

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. Describe how observation, analysis, experimentation and critique are used in the architectural design process.
2. Apply architectural design processes to develop projects that respond to site, space, context, activity and tectonics.
3. Communicate architectural ideas clearly through verbal, graphic, two-dimensional and three-dimensional methods.
4. Analyse and respond to architectural design issues, including how design decisions affect people, activity and spatial experience.
5. Reflect on how architectural design decisions engage with place, materiality, context and human experience.
6. Use critique, feedback and experimentation to improve design ideas, representation techniques and project outcomes.

Workload

36 hours per week including 9 contact hours plus 27 hours of independent study, or equivalent.

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