Architecture Studio 4 (11025.1)

Please note these are the 2024 details for this unit
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Architecture Studio 4
Available teaching periods Delivery mode Location
View teaching periods On-campus
 South Bank, QLD
Bruce, Canberra
EFTSLEquivalent Full Time Study Load is a measure of the student study load. One EFTSL is worth 24 credit points and is equivalent to a student undertaking full time study for one year. Credit points Faculty
0.25 6 Faculty Of Arts And Design
Discipline Study level HECS Bands
School Of Design And The Built Environment Level 3 - Undergraduate Advanced Unit Band 2 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan 2021)
Band 3 2021 (Commenced Before 1 Jan 2021)
Architecture Studio 4 elaborates on architectural design as a process of investigation, critical observation, and experimentation. The studio emphasizes design as a synthetic process encompassing a range of complex issues. It continues to investigate the development of architectural form through the further consolidation of three-dimensional, digital, and material testing of ideas through digital fabrication. The unit consolidates approaches to three-dimensional digital and material testing of architectural forms and ideas. Environmental determinants and technological issues are addressed in reference to the brief requirements and cultural dimensions of civic architecture.

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Apply and evaluate a range of approaches to architectural design;

2. Critically analyse and successfully respond to the complex range of issues impacting architectural design projects;
3. Develop a coherent critique of how observation, analysis, experiment and critique apply to the architectural design process; and
4. Work within externally recognised standards and guidelines present and evaluate design solutions utilising verbal skills, graphic and three-dimensional digital fabrication tools.


Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
2. UC graduates are global citizens - make creative use of technology in their learning and professional lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - evaluate and adopt new technology


Prerequisites

11017 Professional Practice 1: Work Integrated Learning OR 11831 Professional Practice (Industry Studios)
AND
11023 Architecture Studio 1

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

8404 Design Studio 3.2 (Architecture) Graduation Studio

Assumed knowledge

The requisite skills and knowledge acquired during first and second year study of the Bachelor of the Built Environment (Architecture).
Availability for enrolment in 2026 is subject to change and may not be confirmed until closer to the teaching start date.
Year Location Teaching period Teaching start date Delivery mode Unit convener
2025 South Bank, QLD Semester 2 28 July 2025 On-campus Mr Tom James
2025 Bruce, Canberra Semester 2 28 July 2025 On-campus Ms Ann Cleary
2026 South Bank, QLD Semester 2 10 August 2026 On-campus Mr Tom James
2026 Bruce, Canberra Semester 2 10 August 2026 On-campus Ms Ann Cleary
Not available

Required texts

Reference Texts:

von Meiss, Pierre, Elements of Architecture , from Form to Place, New York: Spon Press, 2007

Carmona, Matthew, Public Places Urban Spaces, The Dimensions of Urban Design, Routledge, 2021

Balmer, Jeffrey& Swisher, Michael, Diagramming the Big Idea, Methods for Architectural Composition, Routledge NY,  2012

Clark, Roger,H. and Pause, Michael, Precedents in Architecture Analytical Diagrams, Formative Ideas and Partis New Jersey, John Wiley &Sons, 2005

Ruby, Ilka &Andreas, Groundscapes, The rediscovery of the ground in contemporary architecture, GG, Barcelona, 2006

Brownell, Blaine, Matter in The Floating World, Conversations with Leading Japanese Architects and Designers, Princeton Architectural Press 2011

Baeza, Alberto Campo, Idea, Light and Gravity, TOTO Publishing, Tokyo, 2009

Mateus, Aires, Aires Mateus, 2011/2016 Architecture , El Croquis, Spain, 2016

Holl, Steven Parallex ,Princeton Architectural Press, NY 2000

Holl, Steven, Urbanism: Working with Doubt, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.

Holl, Steven, Anchoring : selected projects 1975-1988

Mansilla L.M.+ Tunon, E., Valee G.,Ed. From Rules to Constraints Lars Muller 2012

Wardle, John Volume, Thames+Hudson, Melbourne, 2008

Terroir, Third Spaces, URO Melbourne 2019

Elliot, Peter, Episodic Urbanism, URO Melbourne 2015

Gutierrez, Roza Urbano + De la Plaza Hidalgo, Laura , Elements of Sustainable Architecture, Routledge 2020

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

STUDIO PIN UP REVIEW

Each Studio Submission 1, 2, 3 is to be submitted in a Studio PIN UP format with verbal presentation to your tutor group and visiting guest professionals as advised by the studio convener.

The record of the Studio submission including drawings in PDF format and photographs of physical models (analogue and digital) is to be uploaded to the Canvas unit site.

Students are expected to complete all stages of the Studio Project in consultation with their design tutor working in their studio groups as an active participant, engaged in and contributing to studio sessions. Submissions will be graded by your studio lead/ tutor with input and moderation from guest jurors and teaching staff. Feedback will be provided verbally by your tutor and a short written summary provided for each of the submissions. Each student should also arrange to take notes to record the Review PIN-UP feedback provided.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Artificial intelligence is not allowed to be used in this unit unless expressly stated in the weekly task or assessment.

Studio Submissions

The assessment of architecture studio design submissions (Assessment Submissions 1, 2, 3) address the Unit Learning Outcomes with regard to:

  • the integrity and transparency of the design process and thinking
  • the understanding of the contextual and cultural parameters informing the design
  • the exploration of three dimensional spatial quality and spatial progression
  • the articulation of a vocabulary of architectural language consistent with the
    conceptual intent
  • clarity and coherency in resolving program requirements, spatial organisation, and
    architectural form and scale within well integrated site responses
  • the exploration of materiality and tectonic within the architectural intent
  • demonstrated skill and technical ability to resolve a design proposal at a detail level, especially in regard to sustainability strategies
  • demonstrated initiative, creativity and rigor
  • demonstrated skill to present and convey a resolved design proposal with graphic, verbal and conceptual clarity
  • collaborative and professional behaviours, including engaged participation and contribution.

           

 

 

 

 

           

              

 

 

 

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

UC students have to complete the Academic Integrity Module annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and University of Canberra (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Participation requirements

 

 

Attendance at scheduled classes and contribution over the semester is expected.

Presentation and discussion of your work in progress is essential for the development of your design skills in meeting the learning outcomes of the subject and for your architectural education. Participation in studio sessions and reviews provides important opportunities for feedback and demonstrates that the submitted work is your own. There is a strong connection between participation and passing the unit or better.

Please advise the Unit Convener if you are unable to attend a particular class or studio.

 

Professional Behaviour:

This relates to the level of collaborative and professional behaviours exhibited in the Studio  including participation in class, working within a team, and at all times adhering to the code of professional conduct for Architects.

Good Studio Practices – The following additional Discipline specific regulations and procedures are designed to ensure equity for students in the submission, feedback and assessment of projects.

It is expected that for the successful completion of the learning outcomes, and for professional accreditation of this unit, students attend on-campus or remote learning sessions as advised and participate in studio classes. On-campus participation in scheduled studio classes is an essential part of the learning process. Engaging in academic discourse with other students and with the tutor/unit convener will provide a greater connection to learning, garner a range of opinions and knowledge in addition to providing the opportunity for greater clarity and assistance in achieving unit outcomes. It is expected that students maintain a minimum overall studio learning participation level of 80% or above, assessed as professional behaviour. It is the student's responsibility to contact the unit convener and tutor prior to class to let them know they are not coming to class and why. It is the student's responsibility to make up all missed information and learning from the class time.

Students are expected to attend on-campus and participate in all Studio Reviews/Critiques or Juries. Where a student is not able to come to such a session they will have to negotiate a new time with the unit convener at a time convenient to both. External work duties, assignments for other units and holidays do not constitute relevant reasons for missing class or Studio Reviews/Critiques or Juries.

 

Studio Clean Up/ Shared Use

Studios are to be cleared of work at the end of each class. Students are responsible for removing their materials, equipment, progress models and drawings as needed to ensure clear teaching spaces for subsequent studios.

Required IT skills

As necessary to facilitate architectural studio submission and presentation, and use the unit learn on line site.

In-unit costs

Materials and equipment needed to undertake the projects, such as drawing and model making materials, and costs associated with any site visits, are generally the responsibility of each individual student.  This could be in the order of $300-$500 per semester.

Work placement, internships or practicums

none

Additional information

Project Handout: Architecture Studio 4 Civic/Public Architecture will be provided as a supplement to this Unit Outline.  It details the Studio Project that forms the learning focus for the design proposal. Reading and complying with this information is a requirement for students enrolled in this unit.