Course Outline Download - School of Architecture

ARCH 5112
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STUDIO INTERFACE
2012-13 - 2 nd Term
Instructor:
Jenny Lovell R.I.B.A.
DESCRIPTION
“Designing from the outside in, as well as the inside out, creates necessary tensions,
which help make architecture. Since the inside is different from the outside, the wall –
the point of change- becomes an architectural event. Architecture occurs at the
meeting of interior and exterior forces of use and space. These interior and
environmental forces are both general and peculiar, generic and circumstantial.
Architecture as the wall between the inside and outside becomes the spatial record
of its resolution and its drama.” - The Inside and the Outside – Robert Venturi
This studio will explore ideas of “depth of surface” at the scale of the body, the home,
and the city. We will investigate and interrogate the relationship between inside and
outside, above and below, in both the public and private realm – gathering the energy
of the city (in this case Hong Kong) toward environmental, social and cultural
sustainability, through an architecture of longevity.
OBJECTIVES
The objective of this studio is for students to address architecture as a reciprocal part of the
urban fabric – as both amenity and cultural reference, inside and out. Students are asked to
design a building and site 'suitable ’ to specific place formed by the forces of Hong Kong.
LEARNING OUTCOME
Students will learn to:
Investigate, critically analyze, and represent the quality and value of place.
Apply a critical understanding, gained through investigations, toward an architectural
response and, ultimately, a comprehensive design concept.
Synthesize specific cultural, sustainable and structural issues through an architectural
design process and present an architectural outcome.
ASSESSMENT SCHEME
Attendance & Critical Application 25%
Process:
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(Development of idea through drawing & modeling) 25%
Clarity of Understanding through Presentation 25%
Quality of Presentation 25%
Students will be required to pin up on a regular basis in a careful and well considered way.
Students will be assessed at the end of investigations and concept phase, and at mid review
stage. Formal feedback for mid review work will be given to students individually.
Final assessment will be made during final review.
COURSE FORMAT
Class will meet primarily in studio for group discussion, review, and individual desk crits.
Informal pin ups will be scheduled on a regular (weekly or bi-weekly) basis – students are
required to print out any computer based work (at an appropriate scale) for pinups, and keep
an A3 chronological 'design process’ folder to hand at their studio station.
REQUIRED READINGS
During the first half of the semester a number of short critical readings will be issued and
required for discussion in studio.
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Additional readings will be suggested by the instructor related to the specifics of each
individual's project development – students are also expected to research and develop their
own ideas through readings.
SCHEDULE
Studio will meet on Monday & Thursday afternoons at the architecture department building of
CUHK. Studio time will begin promptly at 1.30pm.
On occasion we will meet on site or for reviews at the offices of HOK in the Cosco Tower,
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Island
Formal studio site visit/s will take place during studio time – however students are expected
to revisit the site on multiple occasions in their own time as part of their design process.
Reviews:
- Interim Investigations/ analysis review wk/c 4 February 2013
- Mid review wk/c 18 March 2013

- Penultimate review wk/c 8 April 2013
- Final review TBC as part of school schedule
FIELD TRIP
[ X ] Yes [ X ] Local; [ ] Overseas Date(s): TBD
Destination(s): Hong Kong Island
SAME COURSE OFFERED BEFORE (please check the boxes)
[ ] Yes Offer year [ ] Term [ ] Course code [ ARC]
[ X ] No
IMPORTANT NOTE TO STUDENTS:
Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to
the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and
regulations. Details may be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/ . With
each assignment, students will be required to submit a statement that they are aware of
these policies, regulations, guidelines and procedures.