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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
Master of Architecture
Master of Architecture with emphasis in Interior Architecture
Course Number & Title:
INARC 6120 Interior Architecture Studio 4:
Event Spaces (4.5)
Course Description:
This intermediate studio addresses the architecture of
event; emphasizing the capacity of buildings and interior
space to engage and make tangible the opportunities
inherent to diversity, change and speed over time.
Course Goals & Objectives:
1) Design culture: Develop an understanding of
the role of time in architectural form and program
through the design of an event space of approximate-
ly 10000 square feet, accommodating 100 occupants,
sited in a culturally diverse and historically complex
condition.
2) Design practice: develop an understanding of the
ethics & social responsibilities of the architect.
3) Design skills: Develop an ability to use precedent,
and demonstrate an understanding of human behav-
ior in a context governed by diversity and change.
4) Technical knowledge: Develop design ability, while
addressing accessibility, site design, building services,
and life safety.
Student Performance Criterion:
1) Best exemplifies the following criteria:
a) A.7. Use of Precedent (ability)
b) A.10. Cultural Diversity (understanding)
c) C.2. Human Behavior (understanding)
d) C.9. Social Responsibility (understanding)
2) Additional criteria:
a) A.2. Design Thinking (ability)
b) A.3. Visual Communication (ability)
c) B.2. Accessibility (ability)
d) B.4. Site Design (ability)
e) B.5. Life Safety (ability)
f) B.11. Building Services (understanding)
g) C.8. Ethics and Judgment (understanding)
Topical Outline:
1) Design culture and practice: develop an under-
standing of the role of cultural diversity, social respon-
sibility, and human behavior in architectural design;
demonstrated by an individual research project, writ-
ten responses to readings, design charrettes with real
stakeholders and the mapping of the relationships
between users. 20% of the course.
2) Design Culture: Interior versus exterior. Through
a precise analysis of the site’s boundaries and its intended
use by the various stakeholders, owners, community
organizations and visitors, the students elaborate
a program that takes into account the evolution
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of the building through time as well as its adaptability
to the varying occupancy (seasonal as well as punctual:
event) As the architecture takes form, its impact
on the urban environment (immediate neighborhood
as well as city wide infrastructure) is assessed and
incorporated into the design. Students are asked to
reflect upon the meaning of an “urban interiority”
whose envelope, more than a mere façade, is the
place of exchange (social, environmental) between
the inside and the outside. 20% of the course.
3) Design skills: working from ideas generated
through their research, students develop a design for
a building and site that demonstrates an ability to
use precedent, and complex time-based projection of
the building’s growth and evolution; students work
through an iterative process that integrates analog
and digital techniques, and make a series of presentations,
including a programming analysis, a schematic
design proposal, design development proposal, and
a formal presentation of the completed project, at an
intermediary level of accomplishment; 30% of the
course.
4) Technical skills; to enhance the comprehensive
design approach,the students choose a construction
connection detail that best represents their vision
of the program, site and time-based evolution; they
analyze its use and implementation in various precedents
and incorporate its components in their own
design.10% of the course
5) Technical knowledge: through desk critiques as
design projects are developed, sustainable design
issues will be addressed; the final presentation drawings
will demonstrate that students have the ability to
complete a sustainable design, understand the varios
components of a building system and their respective
life cycles and consider accessibility, building services,
and life safety; 20% of the course.
Prerequisites:
All required third semester coursework.
Textbooks/Learning Resources:
Various source including:
• Architecture Between Spectacle and Use, by Anthony
Vidler
• Ephemera, Temporary Urbanism, and Imaging by Mark
J.Schuster
• Open 11: Hybrid Space
• What Time is this Place? By Kevin Lynch
Offered (semester and year):
• Semester: SPRING
• Year: TWO
Faculty assigned:
• 2009-2010 academic year:
Compagnon, Odile (adjuct P/T), Tebben, Paul (P/T)
• 2010-2011 academic year:
Compagnon, Odile (adjuct P/T), Tebben, Paul (P/T)