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Complex Buildings Research Studio
Postgraduate | CUR-MAA409 | 2023
Course information for 2023 intake
Hit the drawing board as you conceptualise and design a complex building.Establish your own critical position from which to launch your project. Find inspiration in existing architectural designs. Consider spatial concepts and sustainability.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Complex Buildings Research Studio
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- review and compare precedents to generate spatial ideas and forms in response to brief, users, and built purpose.
- critically evaluate complex design options in response to site, functional requirements, and cultural contexts.
- integrate knowledge of industry codes, structures and services in a complex building proposal.
- Spatial Intelligence
- Thinking Architecture
- Tower and Office
- National Construction Code
- Performance
This subject was previously known as MAA406 Complex Buildings Research Studio.
This subject focuses on the conceptualisation and design of complex buildings. The intellectual and methodological contextualising of a manner of making and how this is carried forward and affects the study and design of programmatically complex buildings projects. Students will develop a critical position which will inform the design of a complex building. Work Integrated Learning will be incorporated throughout the subject by using a mode of teaching where design activity will take place in workshop situations/ on sites/ simulation of the real world project/ interaction with community and industry.
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- Preliminary Project Presentation (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 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:
CUR-MAA411-Complex Buildings Research Methods (no longer available)
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
CUR-MAA406 (Not currently available)
Others
Students who have completed MAA409 (previously MAA406) PRIOR to 2015 are not required to enrol into its co-requisite MAA411 as it was previously counted as double subject.
Additional requirements
- Other 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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