12.5 Andrew Hutson. 702-206 Architectural Design and Practice 2B First semester Up to 5 hours of lectures, seminars, and tutorials per week; and additional studio work. On completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate that they:

• are able to combine in a single design multiple tectonic expressions (including those concerned with mass, frame and infill, volumetric manipulation, transparency, and layering) along with various devices for ordering the plan;
• have further developed their skills for analysing increasingly complex programs and the cultural meanings and human values expressed within them, and to be able to interpret and arrange the parts of the program in plan and section to arrive at tectonically expressive form that is functionally, structurally, environmentally sound, and responsive to its site;
• have a developed understanding of techniques for analysing built context, and using this analysis to inform the design process;
• have developed analytical and synthesising skills (including appropriate documentation, graphic, and model-making skills), along with the ability conceptualise in three-dimensions, sufficient to undertake a Design 3 studio, and which are commensurate with the skills required by the architectural profession of an architectural technical assistant.

Students will undertake a series of studio-based exercises in design for analysing increasingly complex programs and their development into expressive architectural form. Assessment will be based on two major projects and a review of a portfolio of all assignments set during the semester. (Projects, studio tests, exercises, and tutorial presentations to the equivalent of 7,500 words. Details will be made available within the first 2 weeks of the semester. )