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Course Number & Title:
INARC 5110 Interior Architecture Studio 1:
Emotive Space (4.5)
Course Description:
This introductory studio addresses site as a generator
of architectural ideas and examines how architecture
constructs, and responds to, site conditions. It pays close
attention to issues of site that affect the development of
interior space. Additionally, students examine inherent
material effects, and more ephemeral sensory effects,
and their manipulation to communicate an architectural
intention in a single space. Architectural “transitions” in-
cluding approach, entry, occupation and egress are stud-
ied in order to posit the building as a sustainable system
and the threshold between interior and exterior space.
Course Goals & Objectives:
1) Design culture: introduction to the role of site
and material context in contemporary architectural
design.
2) Design practice: introduction to basic design
methods, emphasizing conceptual experimentation
and rigor, material innovation, and cultural invention
through the conceptual design of a small building
with an extensive site infrastructure.
3) Design techniques and skills: develop an inter-
mediate level of architectural representation, with
an emphasis on visual explanation and analysis,
plans, sections and elevations, and basic manual
model construction.
Student Performance Criterion:
1) Best exemplifies the following criteria:
a) A.6. Fundamental design skills (ability)
b) B.4. Site Design (ability)
2) Additional criteria
a) A.2. Design thinking (ability)
b) A.5. Investigative Skills (ability)
c) A.8. Ordering Systems Skills (understanding)
d) A.10. Cultural Diversity (ability)
Topical Outline:
1) Design culture: students will investigate the rela-
tionship of site to interior space to site as developed
in contemporary art and architecture, completing
case studies that relate the use of site in contem-
porary art practice to contemporary architectural
design; 15% of the course.
2) Design culture: through a series of readings of
contemporary theory related to site, students will
develop a written statement describing the relation-
ship of their project to contemporary architectural
design practice; 10% of the course.
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3) Design practice: through a series of lectures and
demonstrations, students will be introduced to site
documentation and analysis techniques; students
will prepare a series of diagrams and explana-
tory graphics describing both the qualitative and
quantitative characteristics of the existing site and
proposed site design; 10% of the course.
4) Design practice: working from ideas generated
through the case studies and site analysis, students
will develop a design for a building and site that in-
tegrates site considerations with architectural ideas;
students will work through an iterative process that
integrates analog and digital techniques, and will
make formal presentations at 50%, 75% and 100%
completion, at an introductory level of accomplish-
ment; 25% of the course.
5) Design techniques: students will document their
conceptual design through a complete and coordi-
nated set of site plans and sections, and building plans,
sections, elevations, showing context, scale figures and
materials, using CAD, and showing appropriate line
types, weights and notations at a professional level;
15% of the course.
6) Design techniques: students will document their
conceptual design through physical site and build-
ing models, emphasizing material effects and formal
ideas, at a professional level; 15% of the course.
7) Design techniques: students will complete ap-
proximately 10’x10’ total of presentation boards,
showing all plans, sections and elevation context,
scale figures and materials, along with supporting
analysis and information, that may include vignettes
and models, at a professional level; 10% of the
course.
Prerequisites:
5004, 5005, 5006
Textbooks/Learning Resources:
Various sources including:
• Interior Atmoshperes Bridging the Thresh-
olds of Interior and Landscapes, An interview with
Petra Blaisse
Offered (semester and year):
• Semester: FALL
• Year: ONE
Faculty assigned:
• 2009-2010 academic year:
Miller, Carl Ray (F/T)
• 2010-2011 academic year:
Miller, Carl Ray (F/T), Kasemsarn, Richard
(P/T)
Supplemental Information
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