Course overview
This course offers insights into the realities of the development process of large-scale multi-storey urban projects. It aims to accelerate the acquisition of professional and architectural proficiencies, and an understanding of the planning, property, and compliance aspects of contemporary practice. The work spans across from project initiation and site exploration to design, structure, and construction, building knowledge and skills in both theory and practical application. The course maps key stages of developing an architectural project: Design Concept, Feasibility, Developed Design, and Construction Documentation, producing designs that demonstrate understanding and critique of that context.
Course learning outcomes
- Knowledge and UnderstandingThe primary aim of this project is to be a means through which students can develop and demonstrate competence and confidence in the architectural process
- The project spans from planning/urban design issues to construction issues
- It uses a multi-storey city building as a vehicle for developing design skills in a holistic sense, including the design of technical systems and details
- The studio will also investigate issues of the urban real estate market, the design of urban infill, and the relationship between the building form, the urban site and the city context both historically and in contemporary use
- SkillsStudents will also develop skills in time programming and in making judgements about the appropriateness of structural systems, energy use, construction materials and techniques, and development feasibility/ economics
- The stages in the process will overlap and the activities at each stage sampled rather than completed
- That is the only way in which a significantly sized project can be tackled in one semester
- Develop an integrated proposal for a multi-storey urban building, linking all stages from project conception to documentation