11506 Architectural Design: Fabrication Technologies
12cpPostgraduate
This subject aims to further architectural design skills through the integration of a specific research agenda. The research agenda is in the area of prototyping and prefabrication and the processes of design that ensue when fabrication technologies are foregrounded as a design parameter. The studio aims to extend an understanding of technological aspects of architecture through exploring and testing the processes and principles of prototyping and prefabrication using innovative manufacturing and assembly techniques. The relationship between software and hardware environments as related to prototyping are explored in this subject. Questions such as those pertaining to production, repetition, variation, customisation, tooling, information transfer and organisation, assembly and the relationship of parts to the whole are embedded in the design scenario and investigated through project-based speculations carried out individually and in teams.
The subject also enhances a critical understanding of architecture as both a discipline with an existing body of knowledge and a set of practices that continuously challenge and add to that body of knowledge. The subject requires the testing of ideas and modes of practising in architectural design, and the production of design proposals that accurately and persuasively convey the most relevant ideas and practices.
Typical availability
Autumn semester, City campus
Spring semester, City campus
Winter session, City campus
Fee information
2009 contribution for post-2008 Commonwealth-supported students: $1,853.00
Note: Students who commenced prior to 1 January 2008 should consult the Student contribution charges for Commonwealth supported students
Not all students are eligible for Commonwealth Supported places.
2009 amount for undergraduate domestic fee-paying students: $5,000.00
Note: Fees for Postgraduate domestic fee-paying students and international students are charged according to the course they are enrolled in. Students should refer to the Annual Fees Schedule.
Subject EFTSL: 0.25Access conditions
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