Description: PROJECT 1: the design of a “single” house and work spaces for multiple dwellers on an urban site with a garden. PROJECT 2: the design of a housing complex of approximately 20 – 25 units on an urban site. This project will comprise the most amount of time during the semester, be done in design teams and will extend and elaborate on many of the ideas introduced in PROJECT 1. The principal objectives for the work of the Architectural Design 2 studio are:
• engagement with the qualitative issues of design at multiple scales and in varied venues
• exploration of and response to the differential and possibly competing priorities associated with multiple programmatic concerns
• building a practice of understanding the architectural and urban consequences of culture, technology, institutions, inhabitation, and work
• confronting the absolute architectural conditions of life safety, circulation, access, and structural systems
• representing one’s work in various media
• learning to think architecturally through the disciplines of plan and section
• developing the capacity to observe and engage phenomena, both visible and invisible, tangible and intangible
• understanding the importance and complexity of movement and its relation to architectural conception and realization
• developing curiosity, initiative, and a willingness to speculate and take risks in the design process
• developing the capacity to formulate concepts and execute strategies of design and understanding the role these play in the design process
• struggling with the differences between fantasy and imagination in the design of architecture
• cultivating a desire for design and the exercise of taste, sensibility, discrimination, and difference in conjunction with analysis and rational thought
• discovering the role of precision and specificity in the development of your ideas
• examining the relation between design, structures, construction, and the development of a critical tectonic awareness through a disciplined understanding of making
• understanding the various modes of design operation as inextricably bound to representational techniques
• learning how to organize effectively and present analysis, ideas, and projects publicly
• understanding the differences and relationships between automobile oriented and pedestrian oriented spaces
• learning to think beyond conventional notions of dwelling
• understanding the relationships between dwelling, architecture, landscape, and urbanscape