Course overview
This design studio focuses on context sensibility and critical self-reflection in the design process. The projects will investigate local, historical, political, social, and experiential layers of existing built fabrics, to develop appropriately sensitive and responsive designs for adaptive reuse and urban densification. The Studio aims to shift the students thinking away from preconceived ideas and into methodologies for creating conceptual architecture that will evolve to a built form, addressing aesthetic, organisational and technical aspects along the way. The studio rises awareness and critical perspectives on cross-cultural encounters, and speculates on alternative ways of living, social interaction, and building.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate a broader understanding of the relationships between built form, content, context, concept, and construction, with particular reference to culture-specific practices, perceptions and operations