- Department:
- Urban Planning and Territorial Development
- Course Leader:
- lect.dr.arh Alexandru Calcatinge
- Learning outcomes:
- This architecture studio is dedicated to the design of an architect’s house.
It has a twofold aim:
1. Firstly, to guide students through the process of designing a single-family house, with an architectural design studio on the ground floor. It thereby builds upon the design skills gained during the first semester;
2. And secondly, to provide them with the opportunity to seamlessly change between two-dimensional and three-dimensional thinking in articulating their proposal.
This design unit requires scale model building skills, thereby capitalising upon the experience gained during the first semester.
- Content:
- The project explores the design challenges of low-rise single-family housing within an urban context. Students are invited to design a detached single-family house, with an architectural design studio on the ground floor.
The house will rise to a maximum of three stories, including the ground floor, and will have a gross floor area (GFA) of between 250 m2 and 300 m2. In particular cases, the gross floor area can be adjusted up to a maximum of 20%.
The house will display a roof supported by a roof truss.
- Teaching Method:
- The design studios are accompanied by presentations, debates and tutorials.
- Assessment:
- Students are assessed in compliance with the following formula:
Final Grade = 40% Development + 40% Submission + 20% Workbook
The development is split further into the following two components:
Development = 85% Work within the design studio + 15% * Presentations
In addition, students must meet the following requirement:
1. For each of the components mentioned above, students need to receive a minimum grade of five.
Inability to meet this requirement leads to failing the studio.
- Bibliography:
- Deplazes, A. (ed.) (2005), Constructing Architecture. Materials, Processes, Structures. Basel: Birkhäuser.
Hascher, R., Jeska, S. and Klauck, B. (2002), Entwurfsatlas Bürobau. Basel: Birkhäuser.
Jong, T. M. de (ed.) (2008), Sun, Wind, Water, Earth, Life, Living. Legends for Design. Delft: Delft University Press. Available at: http://www.taekemdejong.nl/Publications/2009/Territory59.pdf [01.10.2018].
Szokolay, S. V. (2004), Introduction to Architectural Science: The Basis for Sustainable Design. Oxford (OX): Architectural Press.
Zimmermann, A. (ed.) (2015), Constructing Landscape. Materials, Techniques, Structural Components. Basel: Birkhäuser.