702-206 Architectural Design and Practice 2B

Credit Points

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Corequisites

702-204 Architectural Design and Practice 2A

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

Students will undertake a series of studio-based exercises in design for analysing increasingly complex programs and their development into expressive architectural form. The subject will include tectonic expression of frame and infill in architecture; require students to functionally and compositionally combine in a single design of some programatic complexity the tectonic expressions of mass and of frame and infill along with the expressive internal volumetric manipulation of architectural space; developed student's skills for analysing increasingly complex programs and the cultural meanings and human values expressed within them, and for being able to functionally arrange the constituent parts of a program in plan and section to achieve architectural form that is tectonically expressive, and constructionally, structurally, environmentally sound and responsive to its site; techniques for analysing built context, and using this analysis to inform the design process; development of analytical and synthesising skills (including appropriate documentation, graphic, and model-making skills), along with the ability conceptualise in three-dimensions, sufficient to undertake Architectural Design and Practice 3.

Assessment

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 7500 words).