Course Overview
This course offers students an opportunity to broaden their skills and knowledge from previous architectural courses and other coursework in the context of a series of increasingly complex architectural design problems. Each design problem will require the student to initiate the development of conceptual frameworks to explore and resolve issues of site, context, program, scale, organization, space, form, structure, and the role of building technology to mediate the environment. In addition, during the term, the student's design intentions will be investigated and tested at the scale of the detail with drawings and models.
Prerequisite(s)
Credits
7.5
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to
- Use precedents to illustrate and guide design work.
- Prepare a research report and presentation on a relevant architect or architectural firm using a variety of resources and media.
- Apply the primary elements of architectural design.
- Develop architectural designs by working iteratively: preparing sequential drafts, reviewing with instructors and peers, and then revising the design in a repeated process of continued improvement.
- Use a sketchbook to record the progress of drawings, thoughts, ideas and influences.
- Explore the basic underpinnings of design through discussions and studio exercises; space and form, line, plane, shape, volume, pattern, balance, scale, materiality, colour and texture.
- Integrate observation and criticism productively into evolving projects.
- Use the unique studio environment to integrate knowledge, learn from colleagues and solve design problems with an emphasis on discovery and innovation.
- Document a site following a walk through, careful observation, photography, sketches and research.
- Conduct a comprehensive analysis of a project site and communicate the findings in a series of drawings.
- Design a small and medium scaled building project on a site of average complexity in an urban environment.
- Apply appropriate regulatory constraints - zoning, bylaws and codes.
- Work in teams to solve certain design problems.
- Create working models and sketches to evolve design.
- Illustrate structural and construction intentions.
- Produce two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional design ideas in plan, section and elevation.
- Produce final presentation models that bring together and communicate the ideas and concepts.
- Present ongoing work to studio instructors and invited guest critics.
Effective as of Fall 2016
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