YEARBOOK 2018 - 2019 | XJTLU DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

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MATERIALISING MEMORY
Camilo Espitia .G
ARC413/ARC410
Design Studio 3+4
2018-2019 YEARBOOK Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
Level 4
( Year 2 | Semester 1+2 )
Module Credits
10+15
Module Leader
Davide Lombardi
Teaching Team
Davide Lombardi
Juan Carlos Dall'Asta
Christiane Herr
Glen Wash
Yiping Dong
Francisco Jose Mejias Villatoro
(primary tutors)
Marco Cimillo
José Á. Hidalgo
Li-An Tsien
Zayad Motlib
(secondary tutors)
Teaching Team
Gisela Loehlein
Baoshan Han
Wenbing Fan
Darcy Chang
James Lew
Vincent Buhagiar
Number of Students
12
In the final year of the Master’s programme students develop their
own design briefs and choose their individual tutors. The module
ARC413 Design Studio 3 framework consequently ensures a diversity of
approaches allowing students greater freedom in defining their methods
of learning and their approaches to architectural design.
Over the summer break, students defined the scope and topic of their
projects in close cooperation with their tutors. The project is then
developed in the usual studio setting supported by in-class presentations,
group and individual tutorials, as well as lectures and seminar
discussions. Students are guided to develop design tools and processes
that allow them to explore their topics critically and in-depth, informing
their design project, and initiating the thesis process that continues
during the final semester of the Master’s programme.
Close connections with the other two modules in the semester support
and inform the student’s enquiries: ARC411 Practice Based Enquiry
and Architectural Representation supports the artistic side of the
students’ design work, and ARC409 Architectural Design and Research
Methods informs the theoretical and research aspects of the work.
Students regularly present their work for discussion in reviews to all
tutors involved in teaching this studio, to other faculty members, invited
reviewers from other schools, as well as practicing architects in order to
gain valuable feedback.
In the final semester of the Master’s programme students are required
to demonstrate self-reliance in the framing of architectural problems
and in the research produced to resolve these problems. Building on
the design and research outcomes achieved in the previous semester, in
ARC413 Design Studio 4 students address an individually chosen design
thesis project, resolving design and research challenges identified in
the thesis prospectus written at the end of the previous semester.
The outcome is a self-contained thesis design project supported by a
dissertation written in the parallel module ARC408 Thesis. Effectively,
the work produced at this very special moment of life has two objectives:
it concludes and summarises the years of studies, and, for the first time,
clearly addresses the wider professional public.
Level 04 – Year 2
M Arch Des Programme