Course overview
The course introduces students to the representation of architecture and the built environment, including fundamental drawing principles, model-making techniques and architectural drafting conventions. Students explore different methods of communication and their relationship to the design process through sketching and orthographic projection, physical model-making, 3D drawing, composition and graphic layout, and basic rendering and computer-aided graphics. The course forms part of fundamental design studies within the architecture program, utilising workshop and studio formats to develop skills. This course assumes no prior experience in drawing and aligns with the program’s intent to develop and demonstrate disciplinary knowledge and skills utilising a range of media and forms of communication.
- Model Making
- Orthographic Drawings
- Presentation
Course learning outcomes
- Identify and apply fundamental disciplinary conventions to communicate ideas.
- Read, interpret and generate 2D and 3D analogue drawings and physical models.
- Demonstrate design thinking through the practice of drawing and physical model making.
- Employ compositional principles and basic digital representation tools to present analogue drawings and physical models.
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus West
Class number 21226
Section FR01
Size 294
Available 285
Class number 21230
Section PR01
Size 20
Available 18
Class number 21229
Section PR02
Size 20
Available 18
Class number 21228
Section PR03
Size 20
Available 17
Class number 21227
Section PR04
Size 20
Available 18
Class number 21232
Section TU01
Size 120
Available 113
Class number 21231
Section TU02
Size 120
Available 118
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