11275 Architectural Studio 3
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Credit points: 12 cp
Result type: Grade and marks
Requisite(s): (11274 Architectural Studio 2 AND 11273 Architectural Studio 1) OR (11211 Architectural Design: Forming AND 11209 Architectural Design: Making)
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses. See access conditions.
Description
The architectural design studio provides the creative framework for students to explore how a diverse set of performative criteria informs a design inquiry. Through the project brief, students learn to balance environmental, social and programmatic strategies with the technical and material parameters of an architectural project.
The subject explores the development and testing of architectural strategies within the design process. Students develop tactics for the procedural production of architecture and experiment with digital and analogue techniques. The subject synthesises physical notions of materiality, transparency, weight, and structure, with the programmatic, sustainable and contextual conditions of the project.
The studio frames a series of procedural experiments, exploring the material and spatial potentials of architecture. Students advance their construction knowledge to define their own disciplinary arguments around procedures of production. Structural systems, forms and material behaviours are considered.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
| 1. | Develop a critical approach to the three-dimensional organisation of architectural program through a constraint based material process. |
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| 2. | Develop a critical understanding of the experiential qualities associated with the design of interior and exterior architectural spaces. |
| 3. | Work with three-dimensional physical models to assess the formal and environmental consequences of procedural design methods. |
| 4. | Develop a critical understanding of how disciplinary frameworks can be used strategically to influence architectural strategies, through an understanding of theoretical texts. |
| 5. | Develop the ability to use collaborative learning processes to conceive, prepare, and evaluate possible approaches to a design brief. |
| 6. | Complete and present learning outcomes to a professional standard in public venues that may include open juries, portfolios and other published venues. |
| 7. | Integrate an understanding of and response to environmental concerns regarding material choices and present a rationale governing those choices in a public and professional context within a design solution. |
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject also contributes to the following Course Intended Learning Outcomes:
- Apply an informed ethical and sustainable attitude to the discipline by positioning work within a broader social context (A.1)
- Constructively contribute to peer learning by communicating through various modes of oral, written and graphic communication (C.2)
- Develop innovative approaches by challenging disciplinary conventions (I.1)
- Creative synthesis of complex ideas, arguments and rationales that address an array of social, technical and environmental practices (I.2)
- Test technique-led architectural design processes against a range of architectural concerns (P.1)
- Apply a sophisticated understanding of architectural scale to aid the development of an architectural proposition (P.2)
- Integrate an understanding of a relationship between form, materiality, structure and construction within design thinking (P.5)
Contribution to the development of graduate attributes
The term CAPRI is used for the five Design, Architecture and Building faculty graduate attribute categories where:
C = communication and groupwork
A = attitudes and values
P = practical and professional
R = research and critique
I = innovation and creativity.
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs) are linked to these categories using codes (e.g. C-1, A-3, P-4, etc.).
Teaching and learning strategies
The subject is structured around successive project-based design exercises. There will be a series of illustrated lectures that introduce design theory and examples pertinent to the overarching themes and activities of the subject. The remaining six hours per week are structured as guided working sessions in the architecture studios or computer laboratories for drawing and making.
The first five weeks will be run as a technique-based studio workshops leading to a highly resolved physical building fragment model. The remaining studio, following Assessment Task 1, will be dedicated to extending the fragment to a fully formed architectural proposal developd through these material based considerations and techniques.
Lectures
Lectures will introduce design theory and specific themes that will lead discussions about studio activities and development of concepts. It is essential that students attend these lectures. Attendance will be recorded. There will be a quiz during some lectures that relates to the reading for that week. The quiz is not assessed, but failure to attempt this component will be recorded as an absence.
The latter half of the semester will be focused on studio production and management of project outcomes. There will be opportunities for feedback on assessment tasks and for an explanation of subject criteria in the weeks leading to submissions during this time.
Studio Sessions
Studio time will focus on specific activities set by the studio leaders. These working sessions will include group discussion, individual discussion , workshop activities and peer review. Each studio session will involve the negotiation of a particular aspect of the design project, building on feedback of work produced in the previous weeks. Students must attend studio with adequate materials (laptop, paper, pens, scale, rule, model materials when required). All work in progress must be printed before studio sessions and brought in for feedback.
Please note:
- Participation, preparation and group collaboration in studio sessions are assessable components of the subject.
- Students will refer to the Handbook which sets the requirements for each exercise or assessment. Any changes will be made via the Handbook - students will be notified of any alterations to the document in a timely manner.
- Work produced will be discussed in subsequent classes, offering opportunities for feedback prior to submission.
- No printout, or model no feedback.
- Print work before studio as late arrival in studio will be penalised.
- Students are expected to attend all lecture and studio sessions according to UTS Policy.
Collaborative learning
To facilitate collaborative learning, Assessment Task A1.1 involves group work with individual assessment. Group work is important in terms of building data. All other assessment tasks are individual.
Online coursework
Teaching will be on line and on campus. Lectures will be held online according to the schedule distributed in the subject handbook. All tutorials will be on campus, unless a student has an approved medical or travel situation necesitating online tutorials. For approvals, please contact the subject coordinator before the commencement of semester.
CANVAS There are a number of online resources used to support the learning objectives of this subject. There are essential readings available online as well as a selection of recommended readings and helpful resources. The essential readings will support the lecture content and will be annotated to highlight important concepts and ideas.
Feedback
The subject provides a range of formative feedback strategies.
All assessments will be graded in ReView. ReView will be used as a formative feedback mechanism where students will receive a preliminary, unmoderated grade on the day of the review.
The subject is designed around the progressive development of a final design project. In this sense, every weekly studio session helps you progressively develop your project. It is therefore vital you complete the work outlined to receive useful formative feedback.
Content (topics)
The content of this subject includes a series of material-based design exercises that lead into a designed building "element" and subsequently into an integrated design proposal. The projects and lectures will focus on building as a material artefact, the construction of experiences and atmospheres, and the relationship between architecture, site and sustainability. The subject links directly to material covered in 11207 and 11248.
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Assessment 1 - Research and prototype
| Intent: | This task aims to develop techniques for design, through material based enquiry. Through an iterative set of constraint-based physical models and supporting documentation, students will develop an in-depth technical knowledge of a specific material and its attendent construction possibilities, leading to the design of a well resolved building 'element' physcial model. Through a focus on material lead design enquiry, the formal, spatial, environmntal and performance potentials of material led design in architecture will be explored. The assessment task requires an ability to research, analyze, critically reflect on and iteratively make to uncover new spatial potentials. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 2, 3, 4 and 7 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): A.1, C.2, I.1, P.1 and P.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Project | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Group, group and individually assessed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 20% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Assessment task 2: Assessment 2 - Mid Review
| Intent: | This task asks students to take a materialist approach to the production of architecture. The task assesses a design proposal at a schematic level, articulating the primary material, formal, spatial, environmental and organisational concepts of the design approach, stemming from research conducted in assessment 01. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): A.1, C.2, I.2, P.2 and P.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Project | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Individual | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 30% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Assessment task 3: Assessment 3 - Final Review
| Intent: | This task assesses the final design proposal. The task requires the presentation of a technically resolved proposal developed from assessment 2, demonstrating refined development of material investigations completed in assessment 01. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): A.1, C.2, I.2, P.2 and P.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Project | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Individual | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 50% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Minimum requirements
The DAB attendance policy requires students to attend no less than 80% of formal teaching sessions (lectures and tutorials) for each class they are enrolled in to remain eligible for assessment.