11171 Landscape Architecture Studio 1: Forming
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Credit points: 6 cp
Subject level:
Undergraduate
Result type: Grade and marksRequisite(s): 11214c Spatial Communications 1
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These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.
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Description
This subject focuses on the framework and essential techniques covered in the first-year architectural and landscape subjects: 11211, 11209, 11205, 11171 and 11173. It looks at the production of spaces and strategies which are important for critical and analytical thinking. The themes of body, organisation and context are integrated as ways of constructing spatial sequence and formal responses to a given design brief. This subject focuses on the design potentials of diverse structural, material and organisational approaches in architecture. A constraint-based, iterative process is used to inform a series of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional exercises. Students gain an understanding of the design process; develop an understanding of our relationships to space, form, sequence and the environment; undergo rigorous research and iterative design; and develop strategies for translating concepts into spatial solutions. The use of various representation techniques and media is expected as well as the integration of theoretical and precedent analysis in order to support the design solutions.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
| 1. | Apply an understanding of structure, material and form to an architectural design project |
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| 2. | Apply an iterative physical and digital drawing and modelling design process |
| 3. | Apply multi-scalar two and three-dimensions iterative material investigations to a well defined design brief |
| 4. | Apply knowledge and skills obtained in Tectonics and Spatial Communications |
| 5. | Work independently to produce iterative outcomes showing knowledge of design thinking |
| 6. | Ability to organize, edit and present work as an annotated Design Folio |
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject also contributes to the following Course Intended Learning Outcomes:
- Communicate ideas professionally. (C.2)
- Create designs that respond to their context in formally or conceptually innovative ways. (I.1)
- Advance ideas through an exploratory and iterative design process. (I.2)
- Develop advanced skills for the production, presentation and documentation of work. (P.1)
- Generate solutions to complex problems through an exploratory and iterative design process. (P.2)
Teaching and learning strategies
Two weekly sessions on campus: 4 hr Studio sessions
The subject is structured with successive project-based design exercises. There will be regular seminars that introduce design theory and examples to extend the themes of the subject, followed by active studio sessions. These working sessions include participatory group activities and discussion, using individual work to learn collaboratively. Students must attend all studio sessions, and to follow the progress patterns for each design project. Students should actively participate in group discussions during the studio teaching.
Online resources
There are a number of online resources used to support the learning objectives of this subject. A detailed overview of the pedagogy and associated tasks and assessment items are included in the Subject Outline. All documents are accessible from UTS Online
Feedback
The subject provides a range of formative and summative feedback strategies.
- All assessments will be graded in ReView.
- The subject is designed around the progressive development of a final design project. It is vital you complete the work outlined in the Subject Outline to receive useful formative Feedback. All documents can be accessed via UTS Online. Refer to the DAB Generic Subject Outline document for attendance requirements.
Content (topics)
The content of this subject includes a series of experimental project-based design exercises. The projects and themes are focused on structure and material as it pertains to architectural design, performance and function at a range of scales.
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Design Development and Formal Review - Brief A
| Intent: | This task combines the site analysis of a selected laneway site, with analysis of a precedent project and the programmatic brief involving the development of a space for production. The intention of this task is to provide a clear set of iterative operations in order to synthesize information, context and concept into a design proposal for feedback. This task will demonstrate an ability to develop work progressively, to analyse clearly and to accurately represent the design proposal in drawn and modelled format. A series of thematic workshops are provided in the lead up to this assessment task during the first 5 sessions of this subject. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 3 and 4 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.): C.2, I.1 and P.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Design/drawing/plan/sketch | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Individual | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 40% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Assessment task 2: Design Development and Formal Review - Brief B
| Intent: | This task combines the investigation done for Assessment task 1 for site and precedent studies with a new design proposal for a space for exhibition. The intention of this task is to develop a series of design strategies which involve integrating structure, cladding and spatial sequencing. This task will demonstrate an ability to work progressively, to integrate knowledge of structure, materiality and inhabitation in drawn and modelled formats. A series of thematic workshops are provided in the lead up to this assessment task during the final 5 sessions of this subject. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 2, 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.): C.2, I.1, I.2 and P.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Project | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Individual | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 50% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Assessment task 3: Design Folio
| Intent: | The intention of the portfolio task is to provide an opportunity to summarises and refine the work of Assessment tasks 1 and 2. The production of a portfolio requires careful editing and organization to demonstrate a logic behind the design projects it presents. This document will provide evidence of an ability to represent and think through design and to present a finished work which highlights lessons learned during the subject. | ||||||||||||
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 5 and 6 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.): C.2 and P.1 | ||||||||||||
| Type: | Portfolio | ||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Individual | ||||||||||||
| Weight: | 10% | ||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Required texts
A reserve shelf has been set-up for this subject, available in the library under the subject/subject coordinator name (ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: FORMING 11211, William Feuerman)
All texts in the following list are available in the Subject's UTS Online portal. The readings are distributed into three thematic headings- CONTEXT, ORGANISATION and FORMING. Students will be allocated readings from these different themes over the course of the session. By the end of session all readings will be assumed knowledge.
Body
Corbusier, Le, 'The Modular', London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1961, pp25-68.
Schlemmer, Oskar, Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo, Molnar, Ferenc, 'The Theater of the Bauhaus', London: Eyre Methuen, 1979, pp.17-46.
Lehman L., Arnold, Richardson, Brenda, 'Oskar Schlemmer', Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1986, pp.127-160.
Context
Corner, James, 'The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention', Cosgrove, D. (ed.) Mappings, London: Reaktion Books, 1999, pp.213-252.
Forty, Adrian, 'Context', Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, London: Thames and Hudson, 2000, pp.132-135.
Heymann, David. 'Landscape Is Our Sex,' in The Design Observer, posted November 28, 2011
Jacobs, Jane, 'The Generators of Diversity', Death and Life of Great American Cities, New York : Random House, 1961, pp.187-197.
Knabb, Ken, 'Theory of the Derivê', Situationist International Anthology, Berkeley, Calif. : Bureau of Public Secrets, 2002, pp.50-54.
Tschumi, Bernard, 'Concept vs Context vs Content', Event- Cities 3, Mass. : MIT Press, 2005, pp.11-15.
Organisation
Allen, Stan, 'Diagrams matter', ANY 23: Diagram Work: Data Mechanics for a Topological Age, New York: Anyone Corporation, 1998, pp.16-19. Digital file in this subject's reader downloaded from http://crisisfronts.wikispaces.com/Readings.
Forty, Adrian, 'Order', Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, London: Thames and Hudson, 2000, pp.240-248.
Lawrence, Amanda Reeser, & Schafer, Ashley, 'Re:Programming', Praxis Journal of Writing + Building, Issue 8: RE: Programming, Columbus & Boston: Praxis Inc., 2010.
Milijacki, A., Lawrence, Amanda Reeser, & Schafer, Ashley, '2 Architects 10 Questions on Program Rem Koolhaas + Bernard Tschumi', Praxis Journal of Writing + Building, Issue 8: RE: Programming, Columbus & Boston: Praxis Inc., 2010.
Rowe, Colin & Slutzky, Robert, 'Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal', Perspecta, Vol. 8. (1963), Mass. : MIT Press on behalf of the Yale School of Architecture, pp.45-54. NOTE: Digital File of Reading accessed from JSTOR an online database of texts that can be accessed via the UTS Library website.
Tschumi, Bernard, 'Sequences', Architecture and Disjunction, Mass. : MIT Press, 1996, pp.153-168.
Wood, D & Andraos, A., 'Program Primer v1.0: A Manual for Architects', Reeser, A. & Schafer, A., Praxis Journal of Writing + Building, Issue 6: New Technologies://New Architectures, Columbus & Boston: Praxis Inc., 2009.
Forming
Allen, Stan, Agrest, Diana, 'Mapping the Unmappable on Notation', Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation, New York: Routledge, 2000, p.31-45.
Aranda, Benjamin & Lasch, Chris, Tooling, New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.
Benjamin Andrew, Chapter 6, 'Lines of Work- On Diagrams and Drawings', Architectural Philosophy: Repetition, Function, Alterity, New Brunswick: Athlone Press, 2000, pp.143-155.
Evans, Robins, 'Figures, Doors, Passages', Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays, Mass. : MIT Press, 2005, pp.55-91.
Tschumi, Bernard, 'Introduction + Boarder C'Manhattan Transcripts, London : Academy Editions, 1994.
Tufte, Edward, 'Layering and Separation', Envisioning Information, Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, 1990, pp.53-65.
UN Studio, "Diagrams", Move, Amsterdam: UN Studio and Goose Press, 1999. pp.19-25.
Vidler, Anthony, 'Diagrams of Diagrams: Architectural Abstraction and Modern Representation', Representations, Autumn, No.72, Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2000, pp.1-20.
References
Recommended References (for every architect's collection)
Allen, Stan, Points + Lines: Diagrams And Projects For The City, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997
Calvino, Italo, Invisible Cities, USA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978
Ching, Francis D., Architecture: Form, Space, Order, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979.
Ching, Francis D., Architectural Graphics, (5th edition), Hoboken, N.J: Wiley, 2009
Eames, Charles and Ray, Powers of Ten, New York: W.H. Freeman & Company; Revised edition, 1994
Evans, Robins, Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays, Mass. : MIT Press, 2005
Koolhaas, Rem, S,M,L,XL, New York: Monacelli Press, 1998
Koolhaas, Rem & Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Content, Köln: Taschen, 2004.
Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, London : Architectural Press ; New York : Dover, 1987.
McQuaid, Matilda, Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from the MoMA, New York: Museum of Modern Art ; London: Thames & Hudson, c2002
Moussavi, Farshid, The Function of Form, Barcelona ; New York : Actar ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, c2009.
Tschumi, Bernard, Architecture and Disjunction, Mass. : MIT Press, 1996
Tschumi, Bernard, Manhattan Transcripts, London : Academy Editions, 1994.
Tufte, Edward, Envisioning Information, Cheshire Conn. : Graphics Press, 1990
Other resources
Web Site References
The following list is a set of references that will contribute to your learning and should be explored. We encourage you to explore any links found on these web sites.
News
www.archdaily.com
www.archinect.com
www.architizer.com
www.designboom.com
www.dezeen.com
www.inhabitat.com
www.untappedcities.com
Technique
Niloy J. Mitra (form / shape research projects): http://graphics.stanford.edu/~niloy/research/index.html
Openloop design (multidisciplinary design collective: http://www.loop.ph/bin/view/Openloop/ResearchNodes
Pallalink (montage and collage techniques): http://www.pallalink.net/
Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory: http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/
TheVeryMany (research into rhino scripting): http://www.theverymany.net/
Relevant Architectural Design Web Sites
Biothing Architects: http://www.biothing.org/wiki/doku.php
Easton + Combs: http://www.eastoncombs.com/
Foreign Office Architects: http://www.f-o-a.net/
Greg Lynn Architects: http://www.glform.com/
Marcos Novak: http://www.centrifuge.org/marcos/
Minifie Nixon Architects: http://www.minifienixon.com/doku.php
NOX Architects: http://www.nox-art-architecture.com/
Frei Otto: http://www.freiotto.com/
PARAsite (USC School of Architecture: research into parametric and algorithmic design): http://archpubs.usc.edu/parasite/
Philippe Rahm Architects: http://www.philipperahm.com/
R&Sie(n) Architects (François Roche and Stéphanie Lavaux): http://www.new-territories.com/ & http://www.newterritories.com/Defaut2.htm
Reiser + Umemoto: http://www.reiser-umemoto.com/
Generic Equipment List.
Purchase the Drafting and Modelling Pack. Please keep in mind that other materials and equipment may be required for specific tasks and these will be identified as part of the weekly briefing sessions.
Equipment: Home
- Computer
- Digital camera
- A flat smooth working surface of an adequate size. Consider purchasing a drawing board, preferably A2 size or bigger with a parallel ruler or drafting machine (you might find these secondhand).
- Waterproof drawing tube to carry precious drawings to and from university. Look for one that is adjustable length and has a shoulder strap.
- Drawing paper such as butter paper (available in rolls or by the sheet), detail paper, or tracing paper (buy 110gsm not 90gsm)
The shop at street level of Building 6 sells an extensive range of materials and equipment specifically for students enrolled in Design, Architecture and Building. There are many other art supplies shops throughout Sydney, most of who give a discount with student card – so make sure you ask for one.