Course overview
This course introduces students to the design of medium-scale buildings through their spatial and material exploration, graphic communication, and speculative exploration through analogue and digital design media. The studio offers opportunities for students to explore design method as a research practice, introducing methodologies to generate architectural propositions. Students will develop knowledge and skills in creative and representational practice, and their application to design project/s of increasing complexity.
- Project Concept
- Project Development
- Project Refinement
Course learning outcomes
- Evaluate the built environment (ideological, cultural, contextual, spatial, and pragmatic issues) and synthesise this knowledge in the conceptual and schematic design of buildings and environments of increased complexity
- Analyse and apply design research methodologies in the conceptual and schematic design of buildings and environments of varying levels of complexity
- Interpret, evaluate, and synthesise a defined project brief requirements into design proposals of increased complexity
- Analyse and apply analogue and digital graphic representation and modelling knowledge and skills to generate and describe three-dimensional form and spatial experience/atmosphere
- Analyse and apply narrative-based presentation techniques to articulate a coherent project narrative that integrates is constituent design elements
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