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Architecture Methods 3
Undergraduate | CUR-BAS205 | 2019
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Get designs on an architectural career. Examine how physical modelling, drawing and photography translates into digital design. Manipulate and refine designs and test spatial typologies. Draw on and apply processes in real workplace settings.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Architecture Methods 3
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- investigate, manipulate and test spatial typologies using data collection, drawings, modelling and photography
- use digital and physical modelling to explore, test, refine and present a project
- reflect upon and communicate ideas and design processes.
- Spatial typologies
- Testing Space: Modelling
- Design through Plan
- Design through Section
- Design through Diagram
- Testing Space: Architectural Photography
This subject was previously known as Architecture and Spatial Grammar Methods.
This subject informs the architectural design process and investigates the relationships and translations between digital and physical modelling, drawing, and photography, and their application in design. Work Integrated Learning is incorporated through reflecting the design process in practice.
This subject has BAS140 Architecture Habitation Studio and BAS145 Architectural Habitation Methods as mandatory prerequisites. If you have completed BAS140 prior to 2015, you are not required to enrol into BAS145 as BAS140 was previously counted as double subject. Please get a prerequisite waiver from Curtin to proceed with enrolment in BAS205.
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- Presentation 1 (Non-Marked) (0%)
- Presentation 2 (50%)
- Portfolio (50%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or enrol in the following subject(s) to study at the same time or prior to this subject:
Others
Students who have completed BAS200 PRIOR to 2015 are not required to enrol into its co-requisite BAS205 as it was previously counted as double subject. From 2015, BAS200 must be enrolled at same time.
Additional requirements
- Equipment requirements - Access to hardware: webcam, speakers and microphone.
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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