1. The ability to discuss and strategize stacking and aggregation as an operative design tool
2. The ability to work with building and planning constraints creatively
3. Develop skills which consider a buildings structure with its program
4. Develop design skills that work systematically with design metrics particularly with module/ grid
5. The ability analyse, discuss and design in section
6. The ability to analyse and  discuss a buildings relationship with its urban setting

Specific information on the development of the City of Adelaide is available through the Government of South Australia’s website. The development plan can be obtained at:

http://www.sa.gov.au/topics/housing-property-and-land/building-and-development/building-and-development-applications/development-plans-and-their-use/access-development-plans/online-development-plans/greater-metropolitan-adelaide-development-plans/adelaide-city-development-plan

Further relevant information is given in the handout for each session / assignment, and made accessible through MyUni.

Housing Reference Library:
Manuel Gausa, Housing: New Alternatives, New Systems (Bikhauser and Actar 1998)
Housing Tactics, Praxis 3 (2002)
SELF-SUFFICIENT Housing (Actar, 2006)
Christian Gänshirt et al., Floor Plan Manual: Housing 3 (Birkhauser, 2007)
Gustau Gili Galfetti, Model Apartments: Experimental Domestic Cells (1998)

Precedent List:
Slab:
Simmons Hall Dorms, Stephen Holl, 2002
Unite D’habitation - Le Corbusier, Marseille, France 1946 to 1952
Baker Dorms, Alvar Aalto, 1948
Slither, Gifu Housing, Diller+Scofidio, 2003
Women’s Dormitory, Kazuyo Sejima, 1990
Gifu Housing, Kazuyo Sejima, 2000
Kleiburg Bijlmermeer Housing Block Transformation, Greg Lynn 2001
Marlies Rohmer, Smarties Student Housing, Utrecht, 2003-08
Interbau Apartment House, Oscar Niemeyer and Soares Filho, Berlin 1957
Living Steel Housing, N_architects, 2007
Wozoco Housing, MVRDV, 1997

Tower
Peabody Terrace, Jospeh Lluis Sert, 1962
Nakagin Capsule Tower, Kurokawa, 1972
Ftown Building, Hitoshi Abe, 2007
Bosco Verticale, Boeri Studio, 2012
56 Leonard Street, Herzog and DeMeuron, 2014
Lewis-Tsurumaki-Lewis, Park Tower, 2010

Courtyard
Tietgen Dormitory, Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects, 2008
Morphosis, Toronto Graduate Student Housing, 1998-2000
Celosia Building, MVRDV, 2009

Module
Eero Saarinan, Hill College House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1958
Paul Rudolph, Married Student Housing, Yale University, New Haven, 1960-61
Louis Kahn, Erdman Hall, Bryn Mawr, 1965
qubic, HVDN, 2008
Sociopolis Development

Speaker Series:
The School has a fortnightly lecture series where respected practitioners and academics from the field deliver a public lecture on contemporary architectural practice. In order to expand your knowledge of contemporary directions in design it is recommended that you attend these sessions. The sessions are scheduled for Tuesday 6pm at the Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre, and the exact detail of dates and speakers is available from the School website and the Front Office.

Academic Support:
The Professions Learning Centre (PLC) provides postgraduate coursework students of the Faculty of Professions free academic skills advice on critical analysis and structuring assignments, paraphrasing, referencing, oral presentation skills and other skills to assist with success at university. You are encouraged to take advantage of the service to enable you to improve your performance in your studies. To contact a Learning Advisor please send an email to professions.learningcentre@adelaide.edu.au.

All course material, assignments, texts, etc. will consecutively be made available through MyUni.

University Email:
The school uses the University email system to get in touch with the students. So it is imperative that you check your email regularly and keep up to date with any new announcements.

Noticeboard/Handbook:
General information about the activities at the School is available online from the Student Noticeboard which can be accessed at https://unified.adelaide.edu.au/group/professons-student-architecture/current-student. Students can also access a copy of the Student Handbook at the following link: http://architecture.adelaide.edu.au/pdf/final-2012-Arch-handbook.pdf 

Lectures: lectures to give an outline of work to be covered and strategies to approaches to design approaches

Tutorials: studio workshops consisting of exercises and project work; scaled or prototype production of design objects. Students are required to present their work each week in tutorials, subjecting it to analysis, critique and response by staff and fellow students.

The University expects full-time students (ie. those taking 12 units per semester) to devote at least 48 hours per week to their studies. Accordingly, students undertaking this 6 unit course are expected to devote 24 hours per week to contact activities and self-guided studies.

Based on this framework here are some figures that might assist workload management:

Total workload hours: 24 Hrs per week x 13 weeks = 312 Hrs
Total contact hours: 6 Hrs per week x 12 weeks = 726 Hrs
Total self-guided study: 312 Hrs – 72 Hrs = 240 Hrs

These 240 hours should be used towards preparation of weekly tasks and for completion of the various assignments associated with the course, including development of various skills required to complete the same. Please organise your time wisely.

Week	Lecture	Task	Tutorial
Week 1	Introduction	Photoshop Task: Imaging Inside/Outside relations (2hrs)	Photoshop Task
Week 2	*No Lecture – Public Holiday	Review: Photoshop Task . 3d Rhino Model Task (2hrs), pick salient details, develop proposals	Export Model, Generate 3x Illustrator Sections Demonstrate colour use
Week 3	Site Analysis	EXAM 1: 11%	Site Analysis Task
Week 4	Access/ Egress Public /Private	Review Site Analysis Access/ Egress Public /Private	Access/ Egress Public /Private Task
Week 5	EXAM 2: 11% Structural Lecture Guest: Nick Roach (Ove Arup) Structure/Program	Structure Task: Redraw Structural system (1hr) Reconfigure Structure Hybrid (1hr)	Structure task
Week 6	*No Lecture – Public Holiday	EXAM 3:11%	Toshiko Mori lecture Friday 10 April
2 Week Non-Teaching Break
Week 7	Assign Brief and Site (open vegetable market housing)	Site Analysis 3d Rhino Model Section	Studio Crits 2 xA1 Panel (2 days each panel- 4 night to do design)
Week 8	Verbs for real design: Aggregate, Stack, Array	Schematic Design- mass model with high density foam	Studio Crits 2 xA1 Panel (2 days each panel- 4 night to do design)
Week 9	The Analogical Section: Public/ Private City/ Architecture	Develop Section Add circulation Rework if necessary	Studio Crits 2 xA1 Panel (2 days each panel- 4 night to do design)
Week 10	Surfacing the exterior	Plans and Structure	Studio Crits 2 xA1 Panel (2 days each panel- 4 night to do design)
Week 11	TBA	Model	Studio Crits 2 xA1 Panel (2 days each panel- 4 night to do design)
Week 12	Sheets and stipulated layout issued. Different mock up for each tutorial group. Same Font Specification	Final Drawings (7 days)
Week 13		FINAL PRESENTATION :67%

For this course you will need the ability to construct physical models, be familiar with Adobe Photoshop, and InDesign, as well as a CAD drafting package (and learn by doing).

The course is structured into individual tasks, whose outcomes are discussed in the pin-up sessions, subjecting it to analysis, critique and response by staff and students. The pin-up sessions are the main source of feedback. Students are encouraged to take notes in order to effectively implement the feedback into their ongoing design development. Detailed information on task type, learning objectives and assessment criteria is given in the individual handout for each session.

Grading is based on a comparison with current and previous student work, and with the instructors’ expectations relative to the objectives of the course.

A cumulative assessment, agreed on by all critics, will based upon the following criteria: (1) strength of the con¬cept (2) consistent and rigorous articulation and development of the concept (3) technical competency, clarity, precision, craft and timely completeness of the work submitted (4) verbal and graphic presentation, of the work during formal juries. (5) commitment, dedication and intensity of work ethic, i.e. the intangible factors which go beyond talent or gifted physical/mental abilities

Assign No. & Name	Present/Submit	Weight	Submission Method	Outcomes being assessed
EXAM 1	In Tutorial	11%	In Tutorial	1, 3
EXAM 2	na	11%	In Lecture	1, 2, 3, 4, 5
EXAM 3	In Tutorial	11%	In Tutorial	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Final Review	In Gallery	67%	In Gallery	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Attendance is compulsory at the Monday lectures (where also each session / assignment is introduced) and at the weekly studio pin-up. Weekly tasks are specified in handouts.

Although the teaching–staff aim to accommodate (where possible) the wide variety of ‘personal issues’ that can impinge upon a student’s ability to attend all lectures and tutorials throughout the semester, students must attend a mandatory 80% of the scheduled tutorials. This requirement has been instigated in order to aid students in gaining appropriate competency standards in the subject matter, and aid in the student’s ability to apply this knowledge through set assessment tasks.

It is expected that you will come to tutorials prepared with equipment, materials, and ongoing work for discussion

You must keep every sketch, text, concept model, to assist your practice of thinking and making; these are part of the process of design, and can be crucial to the final outcome; studio staff will often ask you to show them this work, and sometimes this work becomes relevant at the oddest moments.

You are expected to produce work between one studio session and the next. If you do not have work to discuss with staff in studio then there can be no feedback; research and process are the methods of a design practice. Part of the process is showing, sharing, and talking.

Do not sit in studio waiting for someone to come and talk to you, studio is a place for you to work, (that’s what it’s for), this can be drawing, writing, reading, making – and the library is one of your prime resources

Marking & Feedback (General)

• Final results for the course will only be available through Access Adelaide and students should not contact the course coordinator or the tutors for the same.
• Feedback for in-class submissions will only be available during the tutorial as oral critique in the style of studio wall-crits. Students should arrange with peers to make notes for reference.

The work discussed in the pin-up session is submitting as a collated document of 3 individual tasks. Presentations may be public. Due to the guests varying time schedules the date for the presentation might change, and notice will be given via MyUni. Presenting in your work should be considered as part of the submission, failing to present may be considered a late.

In week 15 a selection of the most innovative work from this studio be exhibited in the School of Architecture and Built Environment’s ‘All-In’ public exhibition. Details of which will be provided at a later date.

Submissions (General):

• All submissions must include Student Name and Student ID Number. Submissions without Student Name or ID Number will not be considered for marking, and will receive zero marks in accordance with the guidelines.

• In addition, all assigments need to have an Assignment Cover Sheet which must be signed and dated by the student before submission. Please attach the cover sheet in front of the document, to the top left hand corner.

• Please adhere to submission deadlines and follow instructions provided.

• Students must not submit work for an assignment that has previously been submitted for this course or any other course without prior approval from the Course Coordinator.

• On occasion, the lecturer/tutor may wish to retain students’ work for future reference and the relevant student will be informed at such a time.

Early Submission:

• There is an early submission box located on Level 4 which is cleared out daily at 10am. Please mark your submission clearly before placing in box.

• Models for in-class presentation cannot be handed in early.

Late Submission:

• The school will NOT accept late submissions and any such assignment will receive zero marks. This also applies to electronic submissions.

• Printing delays & hard disk crashes will not be entertained as legitimate causes for delay, so please ensure that the work is finished in advance.

Re-submission:

• The school has a resubmission policy whereby students can redeem failed work by submitting additional work for a maximum of 50%.

• The deadline for all re-submissions is 12pm on Friday 14th June 2013.

Good practice:

• Students should ensure that they regularly backup their work on multiple locations as hard-disk crashes are an unfortunate reality.

• When relying on community printing facilities, students should attempt to finish their work in advance to avoid unnecessary delays.

• Students must retain a copy of all assignments submitted (digital or hardcopy), as originals may be lost during the submission process.

For modified arrangements of submission and assessment due to special circumstances see the following Assessment Task Extension(s) & Additional Assessment guidelines.

Modified Arrangements (General) 

• Students can apply for extensions or modified arrangements based on Medical conditions or other Extenuating circumstances. However, students need to submit their application along with supporting documents within 5 business days of the condition becoming applicable.
• The application forms are available from the Front Office and at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/student/exams/mod_arrange.html and need to be submitted at the Front Office along with any supporting documentation.
• Please note that submitting an application does not guarantee acceptance and the Course Coordinator will inform the applicant if the application is accepted. Please DO NOT contact the Course Coordinator directly.

Medical Reasons:

• In case of an extended medical condition which makes it impossible for the student to submit the work on time, an Application for Assessment Task Extension due to Medical Circumstances may be lodged with the Front Office along with a doctor’s certificate within 5 business days.

Extenuating Circumstances:

• If the student is unable to submit the work on time due to extenuating circumstances an Application for Assessment Task Extension due to Extenuating Circumstances may be lodged with the Front Office.
• Please note that this is only available for certain military, religious, or legal obligations and does not extend to minor personal problems. (Refer to Student Handbook at http://www.architecture.adelaide.edu.au/current/resources/ for further details or contact Student Advisor).

Compassionate Grounds:

• In case of certain extraordinary personal problems students can apply for extensions based on compassionate grounds. However, these must first be discussed with the Course Coordinator in person through appointment during the assigned office hours.
• To maintain privacy relating to personal issues students can contact the University Transition and Advisory Service at 8313 0100 or transition@adelaide.edu.au, or approach the Counselling Service on 83035663 for an individual appointment.

Additional Assessment:

• If a student receives a Fail grade for the course with an overall mark between 45 and 49, they may be eligible for an Additional Assessment which would allow them to get a maximum of 50 Pass for the Course.
• Additional Assessment offers are made by the School and the student will be informed directly once these are made available.

Disability:

• Students who have a disability and wish to seek modified submission or assessment arrangements need to contact the University Disability Services at 83135962 or disability@adelaide.edu.au for supporting documentation and then communicate these to the Course Coordinator in person through appointment during the assigned office hours.

Elite Athlete:

• Students who have national/international sporting commitments and wish to seek modified submission or assessment arrangements need to register with the University Elite Athlete Support Scheme at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/eliteathletes/ and then communicate this to the Course Coordinator in person through appointment during the assigned office hours.