ARCH71-123: Architecture and Urbanism Studio: High Performance Building

Architecture and  Urbanism Studio: High-Performance Building focuses on researching and designing a single, comprehensive architectural project over the semester through either a civic or hybrid typology. Students will engage with a broad community of professionals, stakeholders, and programmatic conditions. Students shall conduct analysis and research to inform high-quality design outcomes that are attendant to social, cultural, ethical, regulatory, technical, community, and environmental issues. Students are expected to develop projects to a high resolution in terms of spatial and experiential quality, technical proficiency, and conceptual rigour, underpinned by theoretical and historical knowledge, and communicated clearly. The work will demonstrate competency across fundamental architectural skills, including site analysis, conceptual and design development, evaluation of design options, and integration of environmental systems, building services and structures in a resolved and technically proficient proposal. Projects in the studio will be of a large scale, urban setting, and complex building type with a thematic emphasis that will change from year to year under the umbrella of contributing to the overall research direction of the School of Architecture. Students will be expected to engage in the studio with a high degree of individual motivation, resourcefulness, and inquisitiveness, as expected of professional-level studies.