COURSE TITLE: Architectural Design Project 1 (DA187102)  

Credits: 6 credits

Semester: I

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

To develop ability to designing architecture in a comprehensive way within urban scale based on some central issues, constructability, social & economic as well as legal aspects which constrain the design.

COMPETENCY

• Ability to formulate and present concepts useful to design from a brief and site and its environment;
• Ability to comprehend social & economic aspect of the project as well as all regulation & the building codes as a reference to the design;
• Ability to translate and extend these starting points into a working design proposal in a comprehensive way (including the IAI’s 13 points of competence) and communicate the design ideas effectively through oral, graphic and technical drawings.

SUBJECTS

• Site and environmental analysis in terms of technical, social and economics;
• Study of precedents as well as selecting design issues by exploring and interpreting such issues to spark some design ideas;
• Study of the constructability of the design;
• Discussion of building regulations and building codes particularly regarding the aspects of users’ safety and comfort;
• Discussion and design exercise of the IAI’s 13 points of competence.

REFERENCES

• Liebing, Ralph W.(208): Construction of Architecture – From Design to Built, John Wiley & Sons., New Jersey
• Macdonald, Angus (2001): Structure and Architecture; Architectural Press-Oxford
• Weston, Richard (2003): Materials, Form and Architecture; Yale University Press.
• Schierle, G G.(2006), Architectural Structures Exerpts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles