Course Description
Summary
The relationship between form and site has been of paramount concern to architects and planners through the ages. In this studio we will focus on programmatic analysis and the significance of site, and how context and function might influence the design of spaces/buildings.
The first half of the term we will study libraries. Looking at precedents both traditional and contemporary, we will develop the program for a college campus library. We will examine the different uses of groups that will occupy it and what their requirements might be. The studio will require each student to develop a conceptual, programmatic, and organisational proposal that navigates the relationship and adjacencies required by the program of a campus library. In the second half of the term, we will apply our learning to an actual site allowing physical constraints and opportunities to morph our prototype into a design proposal for ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Campus.
