| Code: | ARCH71-XX1 |
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Description
Architecture Studio: Community focuses on researching and designing a single, comprehensive architectural project over the semester through a building typology that addresses communities. Students will conduct analysis and research to inform design outcomes that are attendant to social, cultural, heritage, ethical, regulatory, technical, community, and environmental issues.
Students are expected to develop projects to a high resolution in terms of spatial and experiential quality, technical proficiency, and conceptual rigour, underpinned by theoretical and historical knowledge. Successful projects must be communicated effectively through various media, including drawings and physical models. The work should demonstrate competency and resolution across fundamental architectural skills, including site analysis, conceptual thinking, design development, evaluation of design options, and integration of environmental systems, building services and structures.
Projects in the studio will be of a medium-scale building under 3000 sqm, with complex or mixed-use programs related to community formation. The thematic emphasis will change from year to year under the umbrella of contributing to the overall research direction of the School of Architecture. Students will be expected to engage in the design studio with a high degree of individual motivation, resourcefulness, and inquisitiveness, as expected of professional-level studies.
Subject details
Learning outcomes
- Design with knowledge from building technology, environmental sciences and social behaviour as part of preliminary design research, and when developing the conceptual design to optimise the project's performance.
- Critically analyse knowledge from design precedents, research, history and theory of architecture to develop and evaluate design options in terms of the heritage, cultural and community values embodied in the site, and in relation to project requirements and impact on design decisions.
- Creatively develop and implement the functional resolution of a project, including project briefing, site planning, sitings, cultural and contextual response, spatial requirements, building occupancy, circulation, and formal composition evaluated through design options.
- Test, evaluate, and propose through architectural design and detailing the integration of material selection, environmental, structural, and construction systems impacts on design outcomes.
- Develop and document design proposals, including drawings, physical models, 3D visualisations, and design details to communicate proposals and demonstrate evaluation of design options.
- Work collaboratively and individually as part of a design project lifecycle and critically reflect on how design activity generates skills and discoveries.
Enrolment requirements
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This subject is not available to
This subject is not available as a general elective. To be eligible for enrolment, the subject must be specified in the students’ program structure. |