Syllabus
Studio Overview
“RESPONSIVE SPACE: From Rural to Urban, Spatial Assemblies in Context”
ARCH 2010 Foundation Studio II
Department of Architecture
6 Credit Hours
Fall 2022 - 08/24-12/16
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
1:00 – 4:45 PM EST
The 2010 Studio: Responsive Space is the second foundation studio in the undergraduate program in architecture. The second-year curriculum focuses on the design of the built environment through observation, analysis and the development of design proposals in contemporary cultural settings. This exploration uses design as a mode of critical inquiry from the scale of the city to the scale of the hand to prepare a foundation for focused study in the two design concentrations in the third and fourth years. Students will be introduced to thoughtful application of fundamental design principles, foundational techniques of representation and fabrication and comprehensive critical design strategies. This course is meant to foster the development of the beginning design student’s design methodology founded on thoughtful, creative, ethical and rigorous work practices in service of exploring meaningful formal and spatial propositions.
The studio methodology progresses from rural retreat to urban addition, introducing students to foundational concepts in architecture through case study analysis and design exercises of different scales exploring the assembly of space within varying contexts. Logistically, the studio is divided into four exercises, each one building upon the next and increasing in complexity. The first warm-up exercise asks students to measure and document a familiar and safely accessible social space through plan and section. This space is then used as a scalar reference in the next exercise, which asks students to research, redraw, and analyze a pair of precedents: one rural, one urban. The formal, spatial and sequential logics of these precedents inform the design proposals of the last two exercises: a retreat for a forager along the edge of the Rivanna River and a community kitchen at the center of Downtown Mall in the city of Charlottesville.
ARCH 2010 Foundation Studio II
Department of Architecture
6 Credit Hours
Fall 2022 - 08/24-12/16
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
1:00 – 4:45 PM EST
The 2010 Studio: Responsive Space is the second foundation studio in the undergraduate program in architecture. The second-year curriculum focuses on the design of the built environment through observation, analysis and the development of design proposals in contemporary cultural settings. This exploration uses design as a mode of critical inquiry from the scale of the city to the scale of the hand to prepare a foundation for focused study in the two design concentrations in the third and fourth years. Students will be introduced to thoughtful application of fundamental design principles, foundational techniques of representation and fabrication and comprehensive critical design strategies. This course is meant to foster the development of the beginning design student’s design methodology founded on thoughtful, creative, ethical and rigorous work practices in service of exploring meaningful formal and spatial propositions.
The studio methodology progresses from rural retreat to urban addition, introducing students to foundational concepts in architecture through case study analysis and design exercises of different scales exploring the assembly of space within varying contexts. Logistically, the studio is divided into four exercises, each one building upon the next and increasing in complexity. The first warm-up exercise asks students to measure and document a familiar and safely accessible social space through plan and section. This space is then used as a scalar reference in the next exercise, which asks students to research, redraw, and analyze a pair of precedents: one rural, one urban. The formal, spatial and sequential logics of these precedents inform the design proposals of the last two exercises: a retreat for a forager along the edge of the Rivanna River and a community kitchen at the center of Downtown Mall in the city of Charlottesville.