ARH 609 Advanced DESIGN STUDIO I: Design Process and Morphology
Explore an experience-driven design methodology where you develop phenomenologically focused spatial circumstances that come together in an architectural composition to fulfill scale-specific program requirements.
Prerequisite: ARH 653, ARH 654
Software: Rhino, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Cloud, 3D Rendering Engine such as V-Ray or Maxwell
Physical Model Making: Yes
Course Learning Outcomes
- Develop an architectural proposal with a consistent design logic, organized program, rational circulation, and technical viability.
- Demonstrate commitment to conceptual clarity and iterative development.
- Build Studio Culture by participating in group critiques to offer and receive feedback.
- Communicate architectural intent through physical and digital modeling, architectural drawings, diagrams, renders, and collages.
- Distill information into diagrams that establish clear relational hierarchies and data-driven design logic.
- Document site research at local and regional scales using mapping drawings that prioritize readability and spatial narrative.
- Use architectural precedents as a critical foundation for the formulation and validation of design propositions.
- Translate site environmental data into sustainable design strategies documented in analytical diagrams and technical drawings
- Develop sensorial experiences in an architectural proposal through the lens of phenomenology
- Critique the library typology as a static repository and redefine as a dynamic multi-functional civic hub.
- Integrate structural strategies and spatial volumes to achieve a tectonic appropriate for the site context.
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 part of NAAB PC.7 Learning and Teaching Culture: How the program fosters and ensures a positive and respectful environment that encourages optimism, respect, sharing, engagement, and innovation among its faculty, students, administration, and staff
- This course addresses part of 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