i. institutional support and commitment to continuous improvement

Course Number & Title:
INARCH 6210 Interior Architecture Studio 5:
Fluid Spaces (4.5)
Course Description:
This comprehensive design studio requires a techni-
cally complete building design, typically a large addi-
tion attached to and within a larger existing building
with sitework and facades. The course uses a variety
of discrete analytical, diagrammatic and visualization
exercises to register obscure existing conditions and
cultural changes into clear terms so the designer, client
and the public can understand them and the new solu-
tions that arise out of them.
Course Goals & Objectives:
1) Design culture: methods of integration and in-
formation synthesis in contemporary architectural
design.
2) Design practice: advanced design methods, em-
phasizing feasibility, and comprehension through the
design of a large building with an extensive systems
integration challenge.
3) Design practice: Work sensitively with the con-
text of an existing building that is obsolete or incom-
plete for the proposed usage.
4) Design techniques and skills: Develop an ad-
vanced level of architectural representation, with an
emphasis on analysis, plans, sections and elevations,
and model construction.
5) Design techniques and skills: Analyze and revise a
typical program document to suit your ideas for the
project. Analyze the building code and zoning require-
ments and write yourself a guide that contains all
relevant and necessary rules.
6) Design techniques and skills: Learn and ap-
ply competent rules of thumb for cost estimating,
acoustic design, HVAC systems, building services,
vegetation, and exterior drainage.
Student Performance Criterion:
1) Best exemplifies the following criteria:
a) B.6. Comprehensive Design (ability)
b) B.7. Financial Considerations (understanding)
2) Additional criteria associated with SPC B.6
a) A.2. Design Thinking (ability)
b) A.4 Technical Documentation (ability)
c) A.5. Investigative Skills (ability)
d) A.8. Ordering Systems Skills (understanding)
e) A.9 Historical Traditions & Global Culture
(understanding)
f) B.2. Accessibility (ability)
g) B.3. Sustainability (ability)
h) B.4. Site Design (ability)
i) B.5. Life Safety (ability)
j) B.8. Environmental Systems (understanding)
k) B.9. Structural Systems (understanding)
l) B.11. Building Service Systems (understanding)
Topical Outline:
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IV. Supplemental Information
1) Design culture: ‘disciplinary literacy’— student will
examine and critique contemporary practice relevant
to studio topic; 10% of the course.
2) Design practice: through a series of lectures and
exercises, students will be introduced to information
collection and research methodologies; students will
prepare a series of explanatory graphics describing
proposed programmatic conditions in existing be-
havioral contexts, system integrations and compre-
hensive planning; 15% of the course.
3) Design practice: working from ideas generated
through the case studies, site analysis and systems
research, students will develop a design for a large
urban building, focusing on interior space, that inte-
grates 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, 15% of the course.
4) Design techniques: students will document their
design through a complete and coordinated set of
design research diagrams, tables and reports, site
plans and sections, building plans, sections, eleva-
tions, showing context, and materials, using CAD,
and showing appropriate symbology and notations
at a professional level; 25% of the course.
5) Design techniques: students will document their
conceptual design through physical site and building
models, emphasizing material effects and formal
ideas, at a professional level; 25% of the course.
Prerequisites:
All required fourth semester coursework.
Textbooks/Learning Resources:
Various sources including: S,M,L,XL by Rem Koolhaas
and Bruce Mau
Offered (semester and year):
• Semester: FALL
• Year: THREE
Faculty assigned:
• 2009-2010 academic year:
Nereim, Anders (F/T), Hawfield, May (P/T)
• 2010-2011 academic year:
Nereim, Anders (F/T), Hawfield, May (P/T)
Supplemental Information
SECTION IV