ARC 305, Architectural Design IV (4 credits)
Course Description
The course expands on the design issues Space, Scale, and Light. Additional, there is a greater emphasis on “Design with Intention,” and the use of diagram.
Course Goals and Objectives
- Develop skills in creative conceptual design and graphic/model presentation
- Understand and produce design analysis, awareness, and expression
- Technical issues including: code requirements, parking, zoning, mechanical needs, pedestrian and vehicular circulation, and barrier-free (ADA) design.
- Understand site analysis and its potential impact on design.
- Understand the necessity of pre-design work as a foundation for further design exploration.
- Understand the use of concept, creating a design intention, and the representation of concept in model and drawing.
- Understand and utilize the diagram as a means of design exploration, and the testing of design ideas.
- Understand the importance of community, and its insertion into the urban fabric.
Topical Outline
20% Site research and analysis
10% Diagramming
20% Visual Communication and presentation
50% Schematic Design
Prerequisites
ARC 231, ARC 204.
Concurrent with ARC 332
Textbooks/Learning Resources
Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis, Clark
Offered
Fall semester, annually
Faculty assigned
Eric Stark, Associate Professor of Architecture
