ARBE6232
30 units
6000 level
Course handbook
Description
Master of Architecture students engage in design-led research praxis: the exploration, development, and proposition of architectural projects across a broad range of complex programmes and scenarios. Students at a Master level of study are expected to learn to apply themselves with a high level of rigor and self-direction. Studio offerings range in their nature, but will all encompass working on a project through all aspects of design, from research and conceptual formation, to a detailed level of resolution and technical refinement. Master of Architecture studios help students to act in the world in a conscientious manner, to work with others, and to communicate (through verbal and visual means) with clarity and maturity. Architecture Studio 8 emphasises the analytical, technical and performative aspects of architecture, integrating these facets into a project of substantial complexity – whether spatial, social, programmatic or otherwise. Studio 8 projects should reach a refined design resolution demonstrating students’ ability to manage the confluence of conceptual, and pragmatic aspects.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Callaghan
- Semester 2 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Develop a critical design approach in response to a medium to large scale architectural project brief.
2. Synthesise and test design possibilities in response to project contexts and constraints including physical, ecological, environmental, social, cultural, ethical dimensions.
3. Develop discerning use of design methods, strategies, and media, in a process of ongoing conceptual/formal experimentation.
4. Conduct thorough design development across various scales.
5. Articulate research, propositions, and resolved scheme through appropriate architectural communication methods.
6. Integrate technical, structural, and performative requirements and systems in a thoughtful and cohesive design scheme.
Content
Architecture Studio 8 brings a level of technical focus to students’ projects, inviting briefs that may involve real-world foci, real clients, or bring hypothetical scenarios toward a focus on their potential actualisation. Projects will entail the comprehension of various systems that underpin architectural projects, for instance, development constraints and controls, client requirements, construction technologies and services, and environmental systems such as waste, water, embodied energy. Studio 8 projects will take a critical position on the role that architecture plays in life cycles of use and material, looking to work within, but also beyond, the immediate project brief. How we show care and consideration for the ethical, ecological, and social dimensions of architecture is of import to the Studio 8 design process.
Master of Architecture Studio themes
Design-led research praxis: Master of Architecture Studios are designed to inhabit the rich territory between the theoretical, the propositional and the situational. Individual Studio briefs may range in scope and nature, they all attend to this nexus, while questioning normative assumptions about design and environments. Design-led research praxis is defined as the explorative embodiment of concepts through rigorous, critical, project-based design exploration, informed by gathering, analysing, and synthesising an array of relevant information.
Complex projects and contexts: Architecture’s critical relationship to the complex nature of built and unbuilt environments is key. Studios focus on architecture’s affects: on contributions to, and integration into, complex, extant environments – be they physical, social, cultural, or ecological. Students will navigate complexities and constraints in a variety of forms.
Synthesis and testing: All studios will incorporate methodologies of analogue and/or digital analysis and testing to frame, progress, and refine propositions. Students will experiment with design methods, media, and representational strategies. Formal, compositional, and aesthetic choices should be underpinned by explorative design processes.
Resolution and refinement: Master of Architecture studio projects require a capacity for producing coherent architectural proposals, incorporating structural, technical, technological and performative building requirements. Students will develop a capacity for critical and creative reflection on their own work and others’ as part of this refinement.
Ethics and inclusivity: Master of Architecture projects entail an ethical dimension and acknowledge their presence on unceded lands whether local or global. Resilience and custodianship for human and non-human agents underpin studio projects, and considerations for difference, diversity and respect are cultivated as paramount to the actions of an architect
Requisite
Only students enrolled in the Master of Architecture [12060] are eligible to enrol in this course.
Assessment items
Project: Part 1
Project: Part 2
Project: Compendium
Contact hours
Semester 2 - 2024 - Callaghan
Studio-1
- Face to Face On Campus 91 hour(s) per term
- Lectures are incorporated in Studio sessions Optional - 3 Hours per week Face to Face on Campus
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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