702-303 Architectural Design & Practice 3

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

702-206 Architectural Design & Practice 2B

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

Students will undertake a series of studio-based exercises in design demanding greater synthesis of diverse requirements and leading to increasingly resolved designs. Emphases include: three-dimensional spatial ordering, the development of an architectural language that can be responsive to different conditions, representation and composition and an examination of interior architectural form and landscape. Students must demonstrate an ability to work within statutory and programmatic requirements and to incorporate environmental principles. Projects facilitate the development of an understanding of 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 to 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.

Assessment

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