College of Architecture + Planning

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

Fall Semester 2006

Architecture 4010 & 6010 – Architectural Design III & IIIG

2:00 to 5:00 pm, MWF, AAC 334

Faculty: Rob Church, Bill Miller, Joerg Ruegemer, & Ryan Smith

COURSE GOALS

The Fall semester architectural design studio offers students the opportunity to develop a conceptual and working understanding of how to generate and propose, and to explore and examine, architecturalideas and propositions that respond to programmatic requirements, the challenges of site and context, and the selection of technical systems through the iterative processes of architectural design. This will require you to:

Suspend your preconceived beliefs about architecture, and be willing to examine and explore differing notions and ideas;
Continue developing your understanding of conceptual schemes or partis in the organization, development, and criticism of your design work;
Be willing to investigate the differing roles of program and function as a source of architectural insight and understanding;
Explore the powers of site, and its constituent aspects of context and architectural place making, in generating your design projects;
Increase your understanding of the impact of tectonics on design, and the decision-making processes in selecting technologies to support your concepts;
Be capable of using both traditional and digital representations in realizing your design ideas, and know the various strengths provided by these methods.

STUDIO PROJECTS

Twodesign projects, in addition to two other exercises, will be assigned for the semester. The break down on the value of each project within the scope of the final evaluation is as follows:

All studio competition (no grade, but must be submitted)
Project #145%
Portfolio exercise (no grade, but must be submitted)
Project #245%
Other Considerations (individual development,

risk taking, exploration processes, etc.)10%

Each major project will have a series of design issues you will be

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”

Norman Vincent Peale

“Space is temporal because we move through it.”

Bernard Tschumi

expected to consider and address, and specific presentation requirements you will have to fulfill. Incomplete work will not be reviewed, and only complete submissions will be evaluated. Complete submissions which are late will be reduced a full letter grade for every 24 hour period after the due date (including weekend days).

All Studio Competition and Portfolio Exercise: The first week of the semester will be an all design studio competition involving every studio level in the program. The design teams will be vertically structured. While the competition entry will not be evaluated, they muse be submitted for the competition jury. In the middle of the semester a week will be dedicated to students developing a portfolio of their work. As many of you will be applying to graduate programs, or beginning to consider employment in the profession or related design and construction fields, this will provide the opportunity to work on the form and content of your portfolio. The portfolio will not be graded, but must be accepted by you design critic.

Project Documentation: Documentation of all studio projects (including models, drawings, sketches, and all relevant developmental work) is important for your portfolio and for the CA+P’s program review process. You will submit a CD of high quality images at the end of the semester to your design critic. The CD is due Friday, December 15, by noon.

“Architecture tends to make an absolute separation between theory and practice, between

analysis and synthesis. This difference, however, could be better expressed in the difference between discourses: an analytical, exploratory, critical discourse and a

normative discourse. Most theories are developed within the first category, while practice falls into the latter.”

Diana Agrest

SEMESTER SCHEDULEMajor 2 – All courses

DateCourse

Week 1

August23WIntroduction to Competition, 2:00pm in 127

24 Th

25F

Week 228M

29Tu

30W Competition Due @ 2:00pm, Bailey Gallery, review to follow

31Th

September01FIntroduction to Project #1

Week 304MHoliday – Labor Day

05Tu

06W

07Th

08FStudio field trip to Moab

Week 411M

12Tu

13W

14Th

15FReview of site and precedent studies – Project #1

Week 518MFrancisco Benavides Lecture, 5:00pm in AAC 127

19Tu

20W Environmental Controls Exam

21Th

22F

Week 625MMid-project review – Project #1

26TuSketches of Frank Gehry Film in Blue Goose Lounge, 6:00pm

27 W

28ThStructures Exam

29F

Week 702MMarlon Blackwell Lecture, 4:30pm in AAC 127

October03Tu

04WEnvironmental Controls Project Due

05ThHoliday – Fall Break

06FHoliday – Fall Break

Week 809MDeterminants project due or exam

10Tu

11W

12Th

13F

DateCourse

Week 1016M

17 Tu

18W Project #1 due at 6:00pm

19Th Review Project #1

20F Review Project #1

Week 1123MEnvironmental Controls Exam

Introduction to the Portfolio Exercise

24Tu

25W Determinants project due or exam

26Th

27F

Week 1230MIntroduction to Design Project #2

Portfolio due at 2:00pm

31Tu

November01WEnvironmental Controls Project Due

Hillary Brown Lecture, 4:30pm in AAC 127

02ThStructures Exam

03F

Week 1306MSite analysis review – Project #2

Jeanne Gang Lecture, 4:30pm in AAC 127

07Tu

08W

09Th

10F

Week 1413MMid-project review – Project #2

14TuPeter Bohlin Lecture, 4:30pm in AAC 127

15WEnvironmental Controls Exam

16Th

17F

Week 1520MEd Mazria Lecture, 4:30pm in AAC 127

21Tu

22WEnvironmental Controls Project Due

23ThHoliday – Thanksgiving Break

24FHoliday – Thanksgiving Break

Week 1627MDeterminants project due or exam

28TuStructures Project Due

29W

30ThStructures Exam

December01F

DateCourse

Week 1704MDeterminants project due or exam

05Tu

06W

07 Th

08FReading Day

Finals11MProject #2 due at 6:00pm

12Tu Reviews of Project #2

13W

14Th Environmental Controls Final @ 8:00AM

15FCD of projects due at 12noon