Professor:
Phillip Anzalone@citytech.cuny.edu
Course Description: This is an Advanced Design studio with an emphasis on a more complex building organization. The primary emphasis is in the further development and exploration of design principles involved in creating appropriate architecture, focusing on the integration of program, context, site, composition and space planning.
Course Context: This course is the sixth semester of architectural design. It is a required course.
Prerequisites: ARCH 3510 or ARCH 3511 with a grade of C or higher
Attendance Policy: No more than two absences will be permitted during the semester. For the purpose of record, being late for class twice will be considered as one absence. Being more than 10 minutes late for class will be considered lateness. Exceeding this limit will expose the student to failing at the discretion of the instructor.
Course Structure: There will be one project. Research papers, 2D and 3D drawings, and physical study models and final models will be utilized in program development, design and presentations.
Grading:
Attendance 10%
Class Participation 20%
Midterm Presentation 30%
Final Project 40%
TOTAL: 100%
A final grade of C or higher is required in this course to use it as a prerequisite for subsequent courses.
Academic Integrity: Students and all others who work with information, ideas, texts, images, music, inventions and other intellectual property owe their audience and sources accuracy and honesty in using, crediting and citation of sources. As a community of intellectual and professional workers, the college recognizes its responsibility for providing instruction in information literacy and academic integrity, offering models of good practice, and responding vigilantly and appropriately to infractions of academic integrity. Accordingly, academic dishonesty is prohibited in The City University of New York and at New York City College of Technology and is punishable by penalties, including failing grades, suspension and expulsion
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will:
1. Develop advanced level schematic design drawings and models. (Knowledge)
2. Understand the differences between different building systems (electrical, lighting, plumbing, HVAC and structure) and integrate them into the schematic design deliverables. (Knowledge)
3. Research building typologies and the neighborhood of the chosen site with emphasis on history, sociology, and infrastructure changes and integrate research into design. (Knowledge)
4. Apply knowledge of building codes pertaining to egress, plumbing, and fire protection/suppression to design without compromising design aesthetics. (Knowledge)
5. Demonstrate knowledge of different societies’ values regarding space and its social implications. (Knowledge)
6. Distinguish between media and determine the appropriate method and media required to complete a drawing or model. (Gen Ed)
7. Generate talking points for persuasive presentation of design. (Gen Ed)
8. Write comparisons of precedents on specified typologies. (Gen Ed)
9. Research precedents and implement information literacy. (Gen Ed)
10. Apply quantitative analysis to design. (Gen Ed)
11. Collaborate on group projects. (Gen Ed)
12. Critique written reports and oral presentations of fellow students. (Gen Ed)
13. Produce orthographic, axonometric, perspective, and architectural vignette drawings. (Skill)
14. Synthesize site circulation, zoning, urban context, and views to design. (Skill)
15. Synthesize construction types, circulation systems, hierarchy, and light to building design. (Skill)
16. Apply sustainable principles to development design and construction documents. (Skill)
17. Analyze and reduce complex media (print, visual, sites) to component parts. (Skill)
Assessment:
To evaluate the students’ achievement of the learning objectives, the professor will do the following:
1. Review students’ creative process (initial sketches through to the final project) by means of frequent pin-ups. (Los:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14-17)
2. Assess the students’ use of professional vocabulary during oral presentations and written work. (Lo: 7, 8, 14)
3. Review students’ ability to incorporate a concept into their design work. (Los: 1)
4. Evaluate students’ ability to write descriptions of building typologies and the surrounding neighborhood and their effective use of information literacy skills. (Lo: 7, 9)
5. Evaluate students’ participation in class discussions regarding students written and oral presentations. (Lo: 12)
6. Review students’ accuracy with applying quantitative information to a design scheme. (Los: 10)
7. Evaluate students’ application of design precedents. (Los: 3, 9)
8. Review students’ ability to synthesize circulation, zoning, urban context, and views into a design.(Lo: 14)
9. Reviewstudents’ ability to synthesize construction types, hierarchy, and light into building design. (Lo: 15)
10. Review students’ ability to incorporate environmental systems and sustainable concepts into their design work. (Lo:1, 2, 3, 14, 15, 17)
11. Review of group projects will be based on the completeness of the work as well as the effectiveness of the group’s team work and communication skills. (Lo: 11)
12. Evaluate students’ ability to diagram complex media. (Los: 17)
