MArch Studio 2

Overview

Major themed design project with supplementary associated project components involving elements of group and individual work, research and design, coursework, lectures, workshops, tutorials, design proposals, interim and final design reviews, and involving a variety of media, representation and communication techniques.

Learning Objectives

K1 Knowledge and understanding of the interplay of urban form, settlement, and landscape.
K3 Knowledge and understanding of the canon of architectural precedents.
K4 Knowledge and understanding of materials, space, light and their interaction with assembly and construction.
K7 Knowledge and understanding of structural and environmental systems.
K8 Knowledge and understanding of the core values underlying sustainable design.
K9 Knowledge and appreciation of design intentions and its resolution through technology and construction.
K12 Knowledge and understanding of the regulatory framework within which buildings are designed.
K15 Knowledge, experience, and understanding of group dynamics, authorship, negotiation, and the production of architecture.
A3 Ability to develop coherent and well-researched and evidenced architectural proposals.
A5 Ability to assimilate technology as both process and context within ambitious and sophisticated architectural design proposals.
A6 Ability to produce architecture as artefact with an appreciation of the competing frameworks within which it is delivered.
A7 Ability to communicate advanced architectural intention, process, and output in a range of media and occasions.
T1 Ability to apply and appreciate creativity.
T5 Ability to speculate, propose, sustain, and validate a developed intellectual position.
T8 Ability to work creatively and successfully within a team.

Skills

Skills pertinent to the design process: drawing; modelling; and other forms of representing, visualizing and testing architectural ideas in form, space and materiality.

Assessment

Satisfactory completion of studio-based design project comprising technology and design as fully integrated components of the project.