INTEGRATE AND SUSTAIN
ARCH 4601 Approach
Architecture 4601 develops a variety of concepts and techniques in sustainable architecture as part of a studio focused on synthesizing contexts, conditions, systems, materials, and users. Students will develop feasible and integrated architectural proposals.
Image: CMS Villaverde Public Healthcare Center
SUSTAIN HEALTH
Instructors: Dr. Julie Zook + Chandler Cooke · ARCH 4601
Your job in this course is to develop techniques in designing a community-based clinic in ways that restore and maintain the health of human and other animals. This approach emphasizes activities located in the professional purview of architects, and the intent is for you to gain conceptual and applied skills that prepare you to contribute to a practice environment in areas of health and more resource-efficient architecture. A multi-scalar approach addresses site, structure, type, the life of the building and its occupants, and integration of building systems and materials.
Image: Sant Pau Hospital Research Institute
Sekala-Niskala
Instructor: Joe Aranha · ARCH 4601
The studio is based upon the premise that appropriate, culturally expressive and sustainable architecture is derived from an understanding of a range of factors including Local materials, construction processes, safety issues, environmental context, local lifestyle and culture.
Students will explore design proposals for a building that will draw from understanding local and regional building traditions developed over generations, understand use of local materials, regional responses to the environment and will propose design solutions that accommodating contemporary needs related to a given building program.
The project will be located within the unique traditional architectural and cultural context of Tenganan in Bali, Indonesia and will involve a multifunctional community oriented building. Harmony with the natural environment, an important component of traditional Balinese architecture, will be a focus of learning in the studio.
Utopian Vistas for a POST-Texan Township
Instructor: Bryan Buie · ARCH 4601
This studio focuses on developing design proposals that integrate sustainability issues dealing with multi-unit, mid-density residential developments, social and cultural programs - merging ecology and civic spaces as a shared focus for community life, educational experiences, and land stewardship. Building technologies examined aim to identify and formulate a material tectonic responsive to the region's ecology and customary construction practices. In addition, through a series of design exercises utilizing a designated material palette, students will formulate a design language characterizing the cultural identity of the American southwest.
Sustainable Clinic
Instructor: Chandler Cooke · ARCH 4602
This project is a primary care center with telemedicine services, the site features for gathering and activity, and individual- and community-oriented wellness spaces in Lubbock. Sustainability will be pursued through site placement, passive design strategies, structure and systems that are adaptable to change, future use, and other strategies.
Monuments on the Llano Estacado
Instructor: Victoria McReynolds · ARCH 4601
Expanding ethos inherent in our Land Arts program, Monuments on the Llano Estacado, posits architecture as monument to six engines of the South Central Semi-arid “High Plains” Prairie. Students will design a Llano Estacado Observatory, focusing on one essential regional resource: bison, seed, soil, oil, grain and cotton. Thoughtfully re-imagined structures will dial visitors' awareness towards sub-ground, ground, on-ground, and above-ground conditions. Designs will accommodate programs of gathering, gallery, offices, conferencing, and machine space. Caution will be taken to avoid solutions of “the most imposing monuments” as assigned by Reyner Banham in 1982 to the classical grain elevators.
Haptic Retreat – the sense of touch
Instructor: Darrick Wade, AIA · ARCH 4601
Placing the hearing or visually impaired clientele as the primary user group, this studio will design a Lubbock area wellness retreat oriented to the sense of touch.
The design of this building and site will creatively explore the benefits of a haptic architectural environment not only for non-sighted, but also for sighted individuals as well.
Kent Bloomer and Charles Moore explain in their book Body, Memory, and Architecture, “What is missing from our dwellings today are the potential transactions between body, imagination, and environment”. Re-establishing these potential transactions is a primary goal of this studio.
CR LAB 'sea lab 2021'
Instructor: Jeremy Wahlberg · ARCH 4601 + 5601 (Costa Rica)
Costa Rica, the winner of the 2019 Champions of the Earth award, is a laboratory and template for conscious, clean, compassionate, successful strategies in sustainability. This immersive and vertically integrated studio combines undergraduate 4th year students and second year graduate students. The inaugural international studio experience between TTU CoA Lubbock and TTU Costa Rica combines excursions to various regions of Costa Rica, workshops and discussions with local experts, designers, and government officials focused on sustainability.
The studio will prompt students to consider the impact of architecture specific to the diverse landscapes of the 'rich coast': forest, city, mountain, volcano, coastline, shoreline, and sea. The studio will utilize the AIA Framework for Design Excellence as a template for ecological, equitable, healthy, intelligent and energy efficient proposals to generate an innovative solution for an environmental research facility as part of the 2022 COTE International Competition.
SCORES OF LIGHT, WATER AND TIME
Instructor: Ángel Martínez · ARCH 4601 (Seville)
If there is something that distinguishes us as a species, it is the possibility of drawing backward and forward connections. As Victor Hugo wrote, architecture is the book where it is written the life of humanity. Our architectural discipline learns many questions of nature and history. Understanding our context will allows us to protect it and to maintain it alive. Architecture should be set on traditional roots but incorporate modern values, and it makes sense because is related with progress and the dream of a better world.
This 4th Year Studio stands for a sustainable and reasonable understanding of our constructive task. The Architectural Design Studio in the Study Abroad Program in Sevilla will immerse into a series of topics that currently affect the affairs of the city, from architecture theory, urban planning, and public space to heritage, culture, society, and environment.
Huckabee College of Architecture
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