Code: | ARCH71-XX3 |
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Description
Architecture Studio: Civic focuses on the civic nature of public buildings and their relationship to public spaces in city regions. This Studio develops architectural design interventions in the context of the dominant contemporary city region, exploring urban design and place-making strategies. Students will conduct analysis and research to inform design outcomes attendant to civic quality, including social, cultural, heritage, regulatory, technical, and environmental issues while meeting the United Nations' goals for sustainable cities and communities.
Students are expected to develop projects to explore and test spatial strategy with 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 large-scale building over 3000 sqm, with complex or mixed-use programs related to developing civicness. 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 and evaluate project development options in response to a project brief, including environmental sustainability considerations and drawing knowledge from building science, technology, behavioural and social science to optimise the project's performance.
- Identify and apply principles and statutory planning requirements for creating relevant concept design, generating options and developing relevant contextual design and analysis to a project brief, including exploring options for siting a project.
- Design using creative imagination and critical analysis of design precedents, history, and relevant research to the ideation and conceptual design of a project, including developing and evaluating design options that address issues of cultural heritage, context, community values, and economic factors.
- Integrate and apply materials, structural and construction systems to evaluate the impact on design outcomes.
- Demonstrate effective means of verbal and visual modes of communication of design.
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 studentsโ program structure. |