Architecture Studio

Catalog description

ARCH 6012 is the second half of a two-studio sequence for our 3.5-year graduate students during their initial summer. This studio expands on the lessons learned in 6011 and introduces construction systems, material properties, and multiple scales of design. Case study projects ground this second studio project and asks students to think critically about the components and materials of a project and how they might be re-deployed in different climates with sustainable strategies in mind. During this course, the students explore different representational scales: the territory scale, to analyze and understand the problems and challenges of the placement through mapping, and the small scale to explore the structural systems and construction details.