Description
DS1011 | 1B Studio | OBJECTS: Mass and Interiority II (was Conceptual Strategies for the Physical World)
Building from the tools and techniques of formal thinking developed in the first semester, this course introduces students to an expanded vocabulary of architectural fundamentals. Notions of scale and order are considered as students work through formal investigations of mass and interiority. The course is structured as a series of sequential projects beginning with a formal precedent analysis that serves to structure an understanding of order and eccentricity in both plan and section. Following the precedent analysis, students move through a series of exercises focusing on techniques of translating two-dimensional information into three-dimensional form. The formal investigations culminate in the design of a small institutional building. Emphasis is placed on developing an analytical process for design, and the ability to express this graphically and verbally. In addition to t