Course overview
Theme: impression/modularity/system. This course explores the design possibilities of the cultural, environmental and programmatic contexts for a mixed-use, medium to large scale building in a dense urban context. Beginning with impressions of the site, students create propositions that explore meaning, space, form, structure, modularity, engineering systems and materiality. The course provides the necessary knowledge and skills to generate complex, resolved designs. It develops critical skills required to attain a high level of architectural and construction judgement. Students will develop ambitious designs through advanced digital and 3D modelling articulating proposals that comprehensively represent the intellectual and physical attributes of their schemes. This course assumes advanced knowledge of Rhino.
Course learning outcomes
- Conceptualise building program and narrative
- Think creatively with building, site and planning constraints
- Strategize relationship between building program, structure and experience
- Develop design skills that work systematically but outside the box with modularity
- Discuss and develop design in section
- Explore building relationship with its urban context and ground plane
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