Architecture Design I: Introduction to Tectonics, Space-Making and Representation

The course introduces the generic issues that influence and shape architectural design, and aims at developing the skills to address them. The studio focuses on such elements as tectonics, design method and representation, human scale, space, form and light, function, place and time. Design is understood as a method of inquiry, through handson exercises. With an introduction to basic structural principles, the student acquires fabrication skills that inform architectural expression and encourage inventiveness. The student learns how model-making and drawing are tools that inform the design process and form-making in architecture.