Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering, Unit Catalogue 2006/07

AR20017 Design studio 2.1

Credits: 15

Level: Intermediate

Semester: 1

Assessment: CW100

Requisites:

While taking this unit you must take AR20012 and take AR20297

Aims: To expand students' experience of how buildings fit into places. To introduce ideas of context in village or urban situations, methods of site analysis, and the translation of both these into actual designs.
Learning Outcomes:
A demonstrable awareness of the historical evolution of typical local villages or small-scale urban settings; an ability to prepare a site analysis for a real site; and, in preparation for students' first placement, an understanding of generic housing types in urban/rural settings. Each student will be required to produce a coherent design for a housing project using repeated units and be able to employ appropriate means and conventions of architectural representation.
Skills:
By the end of this unit the students should have extended the range of their skills in architectural design, drawing and model making.
Content:
Village/urban visits.
Precedent studies of urban/suburban and rural housing.
Housing design and theory.
Design of public spaces, streets and squares, and of simple repeated dwelling units such as terraced and stacked housing.
The project will include the examination and integration of appropriate constructional techniques and environmental criteria.
On completion of the village (or urban) study students will undertake individual projects for housing of medium to high density within a village (or urban) context. The size to be determined by the studio co-ordinator.
This project is used as a vehicle for environmental analysis carried out as part of AR20297 Building Environment 2 and detailed design carried out as part of AR20012.
This project is also used as a vehicle for the students to employ skills acquired in AR20009 CAD 1.

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