Course Details

1. Construct an innovative and original architectural research issue and plan the process of advancing it by architectural means.
2. Develop a set of parameters that define an architectural concept and a building program.
3. Apply a design oriented research and revise the initial parameters of the research issue.
4. Select an intervention site, plot or area and document the selections according to the design oriented research and analyze its spatial characteristics.
5. Create an architectural concept framework and examine alternatives.
6. Build a brief and accurate verbal and visual presentation of the research issue, the Diploma Project subject, its parameters and the selected site analysis.

This studio constitutes the first completed architectural experience of composition, deepening and experimentation of this program of study. While the strategy of program forecasts in this half-year period the beginning of the orientation of students in certain forms of accent and specialisation, the program proposes for this studio to be developed on three parallel and independent thematic axes. Each one of them aspires in the same training results but through different issues and different nature problems of confrontation. The objective of this studio is also to develop two directions of the planning at the same time in reasonable approach: the first one concerns the experimentation and the deepening in special subjects of planning and the second one the growth of designing experiences that will be useful infrastructure in the level of professional practice. The first one concerns the preparation of profile of researcher that it experiments through architectural and the second one a profile of dynamic professional that aspires it impresses a new stain in the architectural practice.

The studio works as the first stage of the Diploma Project completed in BAARCH10. It includes the following steps:

        Formulating the Diploma Thesis subject,

        Design oriented research to define and focus on the basic pillars of the subject,

        Site analysis adjusted on the needs and the demands of the subject,

        Initial concepts and design framework,

        Visual and verbal communication.

Students may select one of the following thematic axes:

Subject area A: Experimenting with Architecture

Subject area B: Architecture, Place and Civilisation

• Personalised on each student

• Personalised on each student

Workshop character.

Lectures on methodology and good practices.

Scheduled midterm assessments on students’ progress.