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 702-103 Architectural Design 1B

Note

Formerly available as 702-103 Architectural Design and Practice 1. Students who have completed Architectural Design and Practice 1 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Dr Stephen Cairns

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

Five hours of lectures, seminars, and tutorials per week

Subject Description

Students will undertake a series of readings, studio-based exercises and assignments introducing them to methods of analysis, abstraction, and synthesis in design thinking that are common to the fields of building and architecture; basic composition and applied organisational techniques widely used by designers; the effects that planning and program, spatial order (and its conceptualisation), materials, technology and the environment have on design. Assignments require a synthesis with the student's concurrent studies in other subjects (particularly construction technology and communications), culminating in the architectural design of small-scaled, energy-efficient buildings with simple programs.

Assessment

Assessment will be based on a major project and a review of a portfolio of assignments set during the semester. (Projects, studio tests, exercises and tutorial presentations, to the equivalent of 7500 words).

Prescribed Texts

  • B Lawson, Design in Mind. Butterworth Architecture, 1994.
    or
    F Ching, Architecture: Form, Space and Order. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1979.


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