MArch Studio 1

Overview

The module consists of two projects which serve as an introduction and consolidation to the thematic group.

Learning Objectives

K1 Knowledge and understanding of the interplay of urban form, settlement, and landscape

K5 Knowledge and appreciation of advanced representational techniques

K6 Knowledge and understanding of brief investigation and formulation as responses to human needs stated and implied

K10 Knowledge and appreciation of the societal and ethical context within which architecture exists and is produced K14 Knowledge and understanding of physical, cultural, and artistic contexts

K14 Knowledge and understanding of physical, cultural, and artistic contexts

K15 Knowledge, experience, and understanding of group dynamics, authorship, negotiation, and the production of architecture

A1 Ability to undertake design briefs of increased and focused ambition dealing with wider issues of settlement set within particular urban and social context

A2 Ability to be critically aware, and evolve personal design agenda and methodologies

A4 Ability to assimilate and if necessary challenge external inputs, information, contradictions, contexts within the design process

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

A8 Ability to take intellectual and emotional ownership of a design process

T1 Ability to apply and appreciate creativity

T5 Ability to speculate, propose, sustain, and validate a developed intellectual position

T6 Ability to manage one’s time and production

T8 Ability to work creatively and successfully within a team

T9 Ability to be both intellectually agile and strategic

Skills

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

Assessment

Satisfactory completion of studio-based project comprising study trip to European destination, workshops, lectures, tutorials, final design reviews, and involving a range of media, representation and communication techniques.