702-404 Architectural Design 4B

Formerly available as 702-440 Design 4. Students who have completed 702-440 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. This subject may be substituted by a similar level design subject with the approval of the Faculty.

702-403 Architectural Design 4A

Students will undertake a series of studio-based exercises leading to the development of a major design project based on the disciplinary or inter-disciplinary theme of the design studio.

On completion of the subject students should be able to:

• Test theoretical propositions in an urban context.

• Relate individual buildings and collective environments, micro and macro spaces.

• Adapt individual choices to group decisions.

• Convey design intentions through specific technical descriptions.

• Translate regulatory constraints and urban policies into design parameters.

• Evaluate design decisions against industrial environmental conditions, building scale and program requirements.

• Identify performance differences and mutual impacts within the spatial program developed.

• Understand the problems implied in the proposal rather than prescribed in the brief.

On completion of the subject students should have developed the following skills and capabilities:

• Ability to think, coordinate and design various urban and architectural design scales.

• Ability to comprehend urban complexity and make appropriate design interventions.

• Ability to work in a design team and to manage group and individual contributions.

Assessment equivalent to 10,000 words comprising assignments during semester and a final design presentation and submission..