Designing Downtown Lubbock for its Next Chapter
Arch 5601 · Instructor: Erin Linsey Hunt
This studio will ask its students to design a mid to high-rise building as well as the supporting infrastructure and site landscape, that will add value to downtown Lubbock. Students will determine the size, function, and programs of their mixed-use buildings. They must consider the cultural context and what is needed. These design solutions should be forward-thinking and embrace the latest building technologies to advance structural, formal, and envelope design. The studio will investigate the potentials of more resource and energy-efficient designs promoting dense cities that could reduce sprawl and the current dependence on automobiles, thus reducing carbon emissions.
Solar Decathlon Design Challenge: Magnet High School for the Environment
Arch 5601 · Instructor: Hazem Rashed-Ali, PhD
This studio will consist of one major design project, developed on multiple phases, supplemented by several smaller assignments, and learning experiences. The project will be divided into several distinct phases including both group and individual‐ tasks. Project phases will include, but are not limited to research, programming, site analysis, massing, and site design, building design, building assembly and detailing, energy and daylighting design and. evaluation, and other environmental performance analysis tasks.
The design project will involve developing a proposal for a high-performance Magnet High School for The Environment. The project will follow the guidelines of the 2022 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge. The project will explore issues of climate responsive design, passive design strategies, and the integration of building performance simulation tools in the architectural design process.
CR LAB 'sea lab 2021'
Arch 5601 (Costa Rica) · Instructor: Jeremy Wahlberg
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.
INTEGRATE
Arch 5501 · Instructor: Mary K. Crites, AIA
Have you ever wondered how a great design integrates factors needed to get it built; such as, IBC, NFPA, ComCheck, IECC, GIS, CBD, ZBA, P&Z, TDLR, RAS, RTU's, VAV, and FCU's?
This studio focuses on researching and integrating factors such as life safety, regulatory concerns, and technical systems to turn a design into a buildable project. In addition, you will research professional practice issues such as understanding project budgets, and fees.
Student interaction with code officials, accessibility specialists, and mechanical/structural engineers are planned.
FUTURE FRAMEWORKS/NYC
Arch 5503 · Instructor: Jeffrey S. Nesbit
Infrastructure is political. President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework bill seeks to update sustainable transportation, water, and energy infrastructures. At the scale of a region, neighborhood, or block, how can design provide relational urbanism modeling alternatives to redundant and obsolete infrastructure? This semester we will use Inwood, the northmost neighborhood on Manhattan, to explore strategies across its diverse context, including the Harlem River waterfront and MTA rail yard. This studio uses relational infrastructure and urban modeling strategies for increasing public access, providing equitable alternatives, and elevating ecologies for better urban futures.
Four Water Ecologies of Costa Rica
Arch 5503 · Instructor: Peter Raab
Architects play a crucial role in addressing both the causes and effects of climate change through the design of our built environment.
This studio will develop innovative design proposals for an environmental research lab in Costa Rica for the 2022 COTE International Competition.
Each student group will select from the varied bioclimates of Costa Rica – jungle, mountain, beach, sea – and develop site specific, climate adaptive, resilient, and carbon-neutral architectural propositions.
Successful projects will use AIA Framework for Design Excellence as a template for ecological, equitable, healthy, education and energy efficient proposals.
Travel not required. UCD Certificate.
Mein Haus
Arch 5501 · Ben Shacklette
Mein Haus is German for My House, and this project addresses the urgent need to find ways to make the American Dream of home ownership a continuing reality for an increasingly economically stressed and displaced middle class. Students will execute projects which explore land use density methods, mixed use development, efficient housing design, multiple occupancy, self-build, and non-traditional yet innovative approaches aimed at producing market rate affordable living opportunities which respond to local culture, climate, and constructability. Student projects will entail field research, pre-design research and writing, photography and sketching, digital design, and model making. Students will work directly with community stakeholders under the direction of the instructor, and activities will include zoom meetings, on-sire design charrettes, and presentations to the public.
Land Arts of the American West
LAND~SCAPE: operating at the intersection of human construction and the evolving nature of our planet
Arch 5501 · Chris Taylor
Land Arts of the American West is a transdisciplinary field program expanding awareness of the intersection of human construction and the evolving nature of our planet. Land art begins with land and extends through complex social and ecological processes that create landscape—including everything from petroglyphs to roads, dwellings, monuments, and traces of actions. We camp for over fifty days and travel nearly 6,000 miles overland throughout the West immersed in the primacy of first-person experience and the realization that human-land relationships are rarely singular. We produce sustained bodies of work from research inquires that are presented on campus for critique and exhibition.
Huckabee College of Architecture
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