Course Title: Architecture Design Studio 5

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Architecture Design Studio 5

Credit Points: 24.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

ARCH1004

City Campus

Undergraduate

315H Architecture & Design

Face-to-Face

Sem 1 2006,
Sem 2 2007,
Sem 2 2008,
Sem 1 2009,
Sem 2 2009,
Sem 1 2010,
Sem 2 2010,
Sem 1 2011,
Sem 2 2011,
Sem 1 2012,
Sem 2 2012,
Sem 1 2013,
Sem 2 2013

ARCH1004

City Campus

Undergraduate

320H Architecture & Urban Design

Face-to-Face

Sem 1 2014,
Sem 2 2014,
Summer2015,
Sem 1 2015,
Sem 2 2015,
Sem 1 2016,
Sem 2 2016,
Sem 1 2017,
Sem 2 2017,
Sem 1 2018,
Sem 2 2018,
Sem 1 2019,
Sem 2 2019,
Sem 1 2020,
Sem 2 2020,
Sem 1 2021,
Sem 2 2021,
Sem 1 2022,
Sem 2 2022,
Sem 1 2023,
Sem 2 2023,
Sem 1 2024

Course Coordinator: Anna Jankovic

Course Coordinator Phone: Contact via email

Course Coordinator Email: Anna.jankovic@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 100.09

Course Coordinator Availability: Contact via email


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Required Prior Study 

You should have satisfactorily completed the prerequisite course ARCH 1003 - Architecture Design Studio 4 before you commence this course. 

 Alternatively, you may be able to demonstrate the required skills and knowledge before you start this course.  

Contact your course coordinator if you think you may be eligible for recognition of prior learning.


Course Description

The course ARCH 1004 is undertaken in the context of lower pool design studio program and is the last of the 4 vertically integrated lower pool design studios. The design studios aim to develop, apply and test your architectural design skills. This entails:


•Your developing an understanding of a selected range of technical, theoretical, historical, environmental and professional issues.
•Your ability to integrate this understanding into design proposals.
•Your application of the communication techniques necessary to demonstrate this.

Studio programs for design level ARCH 1004 require you to formally locate your work in the appropriate historical, theoretical, or technical context and will include an appropriate program of seminars, lectures and tutorials to support this. Each studio develops a tailored study program to suit the particular studio theme.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

In this course you will develop the following program learning outcomes:

• apply design knowledge to solve a range of architectural problems in diverse contexts
• critically analyse, evaluate and make informed judgment on a wide range of architectural problems and situations
• demonstrate and articulate design skills from concept formation through to design development
• integrate a body of practical and theoretical knowledge into your design process
• comprehend key architectural works, cultural movements and ideas, their theoretical and cultural context and relevance to design
• communicate complex design ideas through verbal, visual and written media
• reflect upon your learning achievements in design, taking responsibility for your future design direction and continued learning
• develop an awareness of environmental factors affecting the built environment


Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:

  1. Apply design knowledge to an architectural problem to a high level.
  2. Evaluate the relationship of a selected range of technical, programmatic, theoretical, historical and professional issues and their implications for building design.
  3. Synthesise a body of practical and theoretical knowledge into the design process.
  4. Comprehend architecture and its relationship with location, program, form and representation to a high level.
  5. Demonstrate design skills through an iterative and considered design process, to resolve your ideas from concept formation through to design development to a high level.
  6. Communicate your design ideas to a high level, demonstrating through your building design & its representation, the aims & claims that are made for the building design.


Overview of Learning Activities

You will be exposed to a wide range of learning experiences. The mode of learning in the architectural design studio is primarily through ‘practicing and doing’, the core of which is the design studio project. Characteristic of this mode of teaching will be the experience of regularly verbally presenting, discussing and explaining your project work in a formal critique process communicated through different types of drawings and models. Your projects will undergo a continuous cycle of reviewing, verbal feedback and reflection between staff, peers and students. At the end of the semester, your work will be presented verbally, critiqued and then you will submit a portfolio of drawings and images that capture the complete semester’s work.

 


 


Overview of Learning Resources

Overview of Learning Resources
The individual studio leaders will provide you with their specific semester syllabus in class and related texts or reference material.
The studio balloting posters and balloting presentations will describe the studio’s individual syllabus content and the semester’s activities and will form the basis for you to select a studio. It is important that you are familiar with this information and that you attend the ballot presentations to give you an overview of all studio offerings and the lower pool design studio culture.
RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.
The University Library has extensive resources for architecture students. The library has produced a subject guide that includes quality online and print resources for your studies: http://rmit.libguides.com/architecture
The library provides guides on academic referencing http://www.rmit.edu.au/library/referencing


Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes. The evidence for your learning outcomes will be in the design projects you present through a variety of visual and verbal means.  

You will receive verbal feedback on a weekly basis from your tutor in response to the particular tasks you have been set.  

Your work will also be formally reviewed in progress at a mid semester, in which you will present your work. At this stage you will receive a guiding feedback form. If your progress is unsatisfactory and you are in danger of failing this course, you will be informed at this stage. 

Graded Final Assessment: Final Project 100%  

(all Course Learning Outcomes linked) 

The Digital Portfolio is a record of the development of work done during the studio along with a reflection by you on the work. This reflection will be done through annotation of images or short descriptions and written text.  

The final grade is based on holistic assessment of how well you meet all the course learning outcomes.  

Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks. 

If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more. 

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.