Course Overview
Introduces methodology of the design process as an approach to creative problem solving. Covers basic principles of site planning and residential design, with respect to spatial, functional, environmental and contextual issues. Topics include impact of site slope, climatic factors, zoning by-law regulations and context on building/site design; residential design with an emphasis on space planning and internal functional relationships.
Prerequisite(s)
- 50% in BLDG 1000
Credits
5.5
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Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course the student will be able to:
- Apply the 'design process' as an approach to developing thoughtful, creative, and responsible solutions to practical site and building design problems.
- Recognize the challenges presented by site conditions, municipal regulations, and programmatic requirements and constraints within the design process.
- Formulate design options based on an identification, analysis and evaluation of factors from the natural and built environments.
- Propose design solutions that respond to the influences and changing patterns of the built environment and that reflect the interrelationship of context, site, and building.
- Develop a workable design solution to a residential planning problem.
- Research municipal regulations and requirements that govern property development, zoning and parking by-laws as they pertain to specific sites.
- Prepare a graphic analysis of zoning regulations for a residential and commercial property.
- Develop a workable design solution to a zoning and parking problem.
- Prepare analytical diagrams and design development drawings using the graphic tools and language of the industry to represent the pertinent information.
Effective as of Fall 2003
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