Architecture Design 2
UndergraduateCUR-BAS1402021
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Build on your understanding of the primary architectural components: space, form, structure and materials. Engage in a reflective and iterative design process to create a new living space that reflects your ideas and complements its surroundings.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Architecture Design 2
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- use precedents and observations to interpret, explore and synthesise ideas into small projects expressing relationships of the body to landscape, space, form, structure and materials
- develop alternative design propositions for inhabiting a given landscape
- refine and communicate a design proposition through a reflective and iterative design process in relation to site and self.
- sense of place
- notion of inhabitation in architecture
- built environment as a representation of collective values
- the relationship between ideas and architecture
- space, form, structure and materials.
This subject was previously known as Architecture Habitation Studio.
This subject explores the sense of place and the notion of inhabitation in architecture. It explores the built environment as a representation of collective values, investigates the relationship between ideas and architecture, and develops an understanding of primary architectural components: space, form, structure and materials. It refers to and uses communication methods taught concurrently in other subjects. This subject requires students to create new structures for inhabitation at a personal scale that engage well with a given landscape. Work Integrated Learning is incorporated through the design of projects on a real site.
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- Presentation (30%)
- Assignment 1 — Investigation (30%)
- Assignment 2 — Reflection (40%)
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Entry requirements
Others
Students who have completed BAS140 PRIOR to 2015 are not required to enrol into its co-requisite BAS145 as it was previously counted as double subject. From 2015, BAS145 must be enrolled at same time.
Additional requirements
- Equipment requirements - Access to hardware: webcam, speakers and microphone.
- Software requirements - Students are required to purchase or have access to the Adobe Creative Suite of programs, specifically Photoshop. The presentation techniques learned in this programs will be used throughout the Architecture Course.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Student feedback
6 student respondents between 19 Aug 2024 - 24 Feb 2025.
100%of students felt the study load was manageable
100%of students felt this subject helped them gain relevant skills
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