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BAEN2001: Design Integration Lab: Materials
2024 unit information
This unit introduces students to the role of materials as a proponent of architectural form. The objective of this unit is to equip students with an ability to think critically about the transformation, evaluation and creative application of different materials in terms of environmental, structural and aesthetic performance. In-class lectures and assignments provide students with an opportunity to explore fundamental concepts about material propensity, material performance and material scale as a conceptual and practical basis for architectural design. To this end, students will also be introduced to regional and international precedents from antiquity to the present that demonstrate the application of innovative and sustainable practices with the use and reuse of materials in the built environment. To facilitate the dialog between material and form in architecture, students will engage in a progressively complex semester-long design project. Upon successful completion of this unit students will be provided with the necessary skills for thinking with materials as a determinant of architectural form.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Architecture
| Code | BAEN2001 |
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| Academic unit | Architecture |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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BADP2002 and BADP2003 |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. develop design solutions that effectively integrate material performance with programmed activities
- LO2. develop design solutions that effectively integrate material performance with constructive solutions
- LO3. articulate design ideas coherently in plan, section and elevation, physical and digital model
- LO4. create rendered, accurate and appropriately scaled architectural plans, sections and elevations of design solutions
- LO5. create well crafted, accurate and appropriately scaled architectural models of design solutions
- LO6. demonstrate a proficient use of CAD software
- LO7. rhetorically present and defend your design verbally in correct English
- LO8. produce a portfolio of semester design work
- LO9. rhetorically explain your design against a backdrop of historical and contemporary ideas about architectural experience in written form using grammatically correct English.
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