Architectural Design III

Arch 2503 · Coordinator: Nate Imai

Instructors: Marshall Drennan · Alex Erbe · Lahib Jaddo · Isabel Manahl · Lauren Phillips · Deborah Pittman · Chad Plunket

This studio frames architecture as a medium for engaging and responding to multiple scales of inhabitation. The fragment and the whole are to be understood as equal parts in the architectural proposal and opportunities for design lie within the coordination of systems for occupation. Expected deliverables for the course will include digital drawings, plotted drawings, and physical models.

Tectonics will be the primary lens for developing an understanding of the ways buildings' elements come together in support of a spatial, formal, sequential, and aesthetic agenda. The project will be sited within an urban context – successful building proposals will apply organizational and programmatic principles in the design of a structure responsive to a specific site's physical context and latent atmospheres.