Course overview
This course will introduce students to the nature, meaning and intention of design and to the skills and strategies used in the representation of design concepts in the built environment. Students will develop knowledge in design principles through experimentation with abstract compositions of form, texture and scale. Utilising foundational design techniques, students will explore massing and assembly, spatial dynamics, habitational and anthropometric criteria, relationship to context, and materiality. Students will develop design drawing and representation skills in orthographic drawing, perspective construction and rendering techniques.
Course learning outcomes
- Analyse the processes used in the design of the built environment and apply them to tectonic compositions and investigating the relationship between people, human activities and the environment
- Evaluate the built environment in terms of ideological, cultural, contextual, spatio-temporal and pragmatic issues
- Apply drawing techniques and graphic layout skills in design presentations