Course overview
Architects today face the complex task of engaging with sites shaped by diverse cultural histories, custodians, and stakeholders. This course empowers learners to navigate these challenges by cultivating contextual sensibility and critical self-awareness in the design process. Through the investigation of existing built environments and their communities from multiple perspectives, the course aims to shift learners' mindset from applying predetermined solutions to methodologies for generating culturally and contextually informed architecture. These propositions have the potential not only to shape physical spaces but also to reflect on, influence, and enrich society.
- Design Contexts
- Design Methodologies + Processes/Application
- Design Narratives
Course learning outcomes
- Identify, critically evaluate, and integrate contextual qualities of built environments and settings, such as site characteristics and user practices, into design proposals
- Identify, critically evaluate, and integrate cultural qualities of built environments and settings into design proposals
- Interpret, evaluate, and synthesise project brief for design development that synthesise user needs and aspirations
- Analyse and apply analogue and digital graphic representation and modelling to generate and describe three-dimensional form and spatial experience
- Demonstrate nominated professional competencies from the National Standard of Competency for Architects (NSCA)