Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN II | ||||||||||||
Course Unit Code | APX102 | ||||||||||||
Course Unit Details | Int.M. Architectural Engineering (Required Courses) - BA Architecture (Required Courses) - | ||||||||||||
Number of ECTS credits allocated | 12 | ||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||||||
Prerequisites | APX101 | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||||||
Recommended optional program components | John Hedjuk, Education of an Architect, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union, Rizzoli, 1989. Juhani Pallasma, pref by Steven Holl, The Eyes of the Skin, architecture and the senses, Sussex Wiley, 2005. Angelil Marc, Hebel Dirk, Deviations – Designing Architecture, Birkhauser, 2008. | ||||||||||||
Course Contents | The goal for the first year design studio is to attempt to create awareness to students of all the issues involved in design. Each individual is forced to reassess their philosophical position in an ever changing society and their role as creative human beings. Projects will involve the design of forms directly related and inspired by the human body through the investigation of the unique physical characteristics of each students own body. These investigations will be constructed at 1:1 scale and will include the human body or be directly related to it. The student’s own body weight will determine the materials and method of construction and its inclusion to the construction will be a test to the success of the whole investigation. The goal of the exercise is to demonstrate how scale, materials and construction become essential factors of the design process. | ||||||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The course is delivered to the students by means of lectures, demonstrations, workshops, drawing & model making exercises, written and aural presentations. Students work in studio through personal tutoring, group critiques and final assessments. | ||||||||||||
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Language of instruction | Greek | ||||||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |