Closer Than One Thinks

Arch 3601 · Coordinator: Zahra Safaverdi

Instructors: Marshall Drennan · Roberto Becerra · Lior Galili · Erin Hunt · William “Danny” Nowak · Lauren Phillips · Deborah Pittman · Christi Wier, AIA

“Architectural Design V” projects build upon the students' previously acquired skills in architectural representation, spatial composition, and tectonic articulation. The studio at large is focused on developing the ability and understanding of students to design a project in response to multiple degrees of constraints, while maintaining a cohesive design concept and strategy. These projects investigate the simultaneous concerns of program, site, context and materials. Specific emphasis would be on understanding of the goals, objectives, intentions and parameters of context in design, including cultural influences and environmental considerations. students will be working with a hybrid typology: A cultural institution with an ecological focus that encompasses two, at times radically different, facets. They will be challenged to re-think and re-imagine the interface between the building and varied definitions of ‘publics', and will design potential combinations and permutations of the relationships of the given components.