Course Details

1. Construct a framework of original design concepts based on thorough research.
2. Develop alternative design approaches or variations on the same concept and explain their final selection in terms of innovation and architectural quality.
3. Refine the selected concept in order to support adequately realistic architectural virtues and contemporary demands regarding: morphology, functionality, stability, environmental and sustainable performance.
4. Design a feasible structure and approach a materiality of the building skin that support and satisfy a holistic architectural program, closely linked to communal and economic needs, as well as limitations set by the society.
5. Build a brief and accurate presentation of the scope and the base research, the process, the concept and the crucial details that define the architectural character.
6. Explain both visually and verbally how the concept and the final product satisfy the goals and the prerequisites set by the research.

This course does not have the character Studio but is included in this category because his object is the architectural planning. His raison d'être is to support the development of diplomatic work of students and the follow-up of her development from the instructive personnel of Department. With this course program seeks it creates a environment in which the students that work out the diplomatic work have the possibility of exchanging experiences and from their her work and of having the guidance of instructive potential. With this way is maintained the cohesion of team to profit of collectiveness and her positive consequences in the quality of work. The number of instructive units that are given by this laboratory is reported in the diplomatic work.

Each Diploma Project has its own rational and specific approach. Nevertheless, BAARCH10 studio environment deepens on the process of designing a complete, innovative and original architectural proposal through the following stages:

        Conception and development of concept or the basic principles of synthesis.

        Maturing a concept or a set of basic design principles.

        Elaboration and refinement on the architectural expression.

        Visual and verbal communication of the final product.

Students continue on one of the following thematic axes they have already selected in BAARCH09:

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.