DESST 3516 - Design Studio VI

Theme: institution/complexity/specialisation. This course comprises a number of independent discipline-based but interrelated studios and enable students to focus on architecture, landscape architecture, construction management or urban design as they consider their preferred area of specialisation in preparation for their professional Masters degree. This course explores design proposals for spatially complex structures that uniquely respond to a specific set of requirements for a medium to large scale institutional program (building, landscape or infrastructure). Cultural, environmental and programmatic parameters are examined. Propositions are inclusive of consideration of meaning, space, form, structures, engineering systems and materiality. Analysis and interpretation of these parameters will be used to generate designs with complex programs that are communicated using appropriate disciplinary conventions with consistent learning outcomes and assessment criteria for each studio group. The course provides the necessary knowledge and skills to generate complex, resolved designs. It develops critical skills required to attain a high level of architectural and construction judgement. Students will develop ambitious designs through advanced digital and 3D modelling to articulate proposals that comprehensively represent the intellectual and physical attributes of their schemes.