Seven Frames of Reference
Senior Architectural Design Projects
Architectural Integration: The Paradigm of Architecture
Design Performance Objective |
Architectural Integration
Design integration (including systems integration)
7a: Project HOPE: a design/build HIV clinic for a rural South African community. This two person project is an example of architectural integration as it spans the range of issues from poetic to realistic, finally realizing built form on its site in Africa.
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Students: David Aine + Matt Ridenour |
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Arch 481 Senior Architectural Design Project Studio/
Arch 492 Senior Design Thesis Seminar
Architectural Integration: The Paradigm of Architecture
Philosophy
The ultimate aim of this topical sequence is to understand how our creative work reflects upon, questions, and relates to the broader field of architecture. Are we advancing the discipline or simply replicating the past? Are we improving our relationship with nature, or settling for the status quo? Are we creating stimulating, responsible environments or …….? To paraphrase Corbusier, we should aim to make the bad difficult and the good easy.
Design Performance Objective
All students are encourage to pursue design integration in their projects, as they attempt to balance all issues ranging from the poetic to the technical, while simultaneously staying focused on essential ecological design issues (which is always at the forefront).
• course and project outline
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Investigative Strategy |
Writing; reading; designing; re-designing; drawing; modeling (of all types and all scales); discussion; and multiple critical presentations.
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Evaluation Process |
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Final presentations and final iterations of the thesis “book.”
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Evaluative Criteria |
Demonstrated sensitive and appropriate response to the defined thesis situation (through models [of all types and scales], drawings, montages, narratives, videos, etc.
Thorough presentation of design solution at two final public reviews and in the third (and final) iteration of the thesis book.
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Cautions - Possible Confusions |
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Range of Applicability in terms of CLIMATE |
ALL |
Range of Applicability in terms of TYPE |
ALL |
Reference Material |
Varies according to project.
Contemporary and historic recedent research referencing pertinent architectural projects is essential to this process.
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Duration of Exercise |
The duration of the entire thesis sequence is 30 weeks. Projects are continuously reviewed and publically presented, including watershed presentations at: week 9, week 13, week 16, week 19, week 22, week 28, and week 29. Three thesis books are required (week 10, week 20, week 30). Final projects are documented in thesis books, due week 30.
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![Off-grid and site responsive Passenger Ferry Terminal, Berkeley, CA. Space transforms according to tidal shifts. [Brian Weller]](../../teaching/stannard/images/BrianWellerModel_resize.jpg)
Off-grid and site responsive Passenger Ferry Terminal, Berkeley, CA. Space transforms according to tidal shifts. [Brian Weller]
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