ARH 150 STUDIO 2 SPATIAL ORDERING & FORM

Develop your critical design decision-making abilities through experimentation. You will research and analyze a case study project, identify key spatial ideas, and incorporate these ideas through an iterative process of model-making, diagramming, and drawing for small scale projects.

Prerequisites: ARH 110, ARH 170, ARH 180 (ARH 180 may be taken concurrently)

Software: Rhino, Adobe Creative Cloud

Course Learning Outcomes

Identify conceptual, spatial, formal, and material orders through critical analysis of canonical precedent buildings
Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between materiality, space and form through making
Articulate and extend conceptual thinking through diagrams
Clearly communicate design ideas in written, spoken and graphic form
Construct architectural drawings and models with a high level of craft, precision, and attention to detail
Use an iterative design process to incorporate feedback and refine proposals
Develop criteria to generate and evaluate organizing principles
Develop architectural proposals appropriate for the site context
Organize efficient floor plans to meet user and program requirements

NAAB CRITERIA

This course addresses part of NAAB PC 2 Design: How the program instills in students the role of the design process in shaping the built environment and conveys the methods by which design processes integrate multiple factors, in different settings and scales of development, from buildings to cities.
This course addresses NAAB Shared Values of Design: Architects design better, safer, more equitable, resilient, and sustainable built environments. Design thinking and integrated design solutions are hallmarks of architecture education, the discipline, and the profession

Additional Information

This course is a second-semester undergraduate design studio comprised of a series of projects that provide a solid ground from which students can develop their architectural interests. While emphasizing fundamental skills such as diagramming, hand-drafting, and physical model-making, students will also build their ability to conceptualize, develop, and communicate spatial ideas. Beginning with an in-depth analysis of architectural precedents, students apply their insights to a series of abstract, formal exercises, developing systems of order and design logic that form the basis for their final design project of a hybrid building in San Francisco.

The course fosters design as a medium of speculation, and it challenges students to explore architecture’s potential to generate experience, shelter, accommodate program, and respond to its broader context. Design is approached as an iterative process through which the act of crafting, evaluating, and refining is a core value. This course teaches students to make thoughtful, informed decisions about how to solve design problems while realizing their artistic visions.

Student Project By: Sladek Jaroslav

Student Project By: Amy Velez