New York City College of Technology – City University of New York
300 Jay Street, Brooklyn NY 11201
Department of Architectural Technology
Bachelor of Technology in Architectural Technology
ARCH 3612 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN VI
Professors:
Jill Bouratoglou jbouratoglou@citytech.cuny.edu
Paul King prof.paul.king@gmail.com
Course Description: This is an advanced design studio where the significance of public housing will be examined. The studio will research, evaluate analyze and investigate multi-family housing and urban redevelopment, and propose an exploratory approach to the planning and delivery of housing. The final project will consist of designing high density mixed –use housing and public space with community amenities.
Course Content:
This is a sixth semester design studio that focuses on housing and the community. This studio will build on the relationship between all of the various systems involved in the assembly and design of buildings, while responding to their environmental contexts. Housing will be explored as a set of building typology with social and historical implications.
Prerequisites: ARCH 3512or ARCH3510eitherwith a grade of C or higher
Suggested Textbooks:
Density: New Collective Housing by Javier Mozas
Housing Design: A Manual 2nd ed. Edition by Bernard Leupen (Author), Harald Mooij (Author)
Floor Plan Manual 4th Revised and Extended Edition Edition
by Friederike Schneider (Author), Oliver Heckmann (Author)
Attendance Policy: No more than 10% absences are permitted during the semester. For the purposes of record, two late arrivals are considered as one absence. Exceeding this limit will expose the student to failing at the discretion of the instructor due to lack of class participation and mastery of class material.
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 is punishable by penalties, including failing grades, suspension and expulsion.
Course Structure: The studio will be organized as a research studio with one design project. Research papers, 2D and 3D drawings, and physical study models and final models will be utilized in program development, design and presentations
Course will also include a combination of the following activities:
- Field Trips / High Impact Learning Practices:
Field trips will look to visit existing buildings and construction sites, tour newly constructed buildings and urban spaces or visit institutions, including but not limited to museums, churches, or other colleges with discussions led by either the instructor or on-site experts in the field or the subject. - Lectures:
Lectures will be given by a qualified instructor and if warranted invited guest lecturers or experts in the field or subject.
- Activities:
Students will participate in activities that provide them with the opportunity to apply what is learned in a given subject.
Research Activities:
Students will be given directed readings and be required to correlate their readings with the lab exercises. Supplemental research will be encouraged to promote a greater analytical and critical understanding.
- Presentations:
Students will participate in written, oral and graphic presentation of course subjects and issues identified through their reading, writing, and lab work.
Grading:
Project research and development 40%
Site Visit and Analysis
Precedent studies
Program development
Design Concept and Development 50%
Presentation
Completion and
Resolution
Participation in class discussions 10%
NAAB Student Performance Criteria Addressed:
A.4 Architectural Design Skills
B.2 Site Design
B.3 Codes and Regulations
Topical Outline (percentage of time in course spent in each content area):
Integrated Design and Implementation: 60%
Code Analysis: 10%
Site Analysis: 10%
Program Analysis: 10%
Development of Building Assembly: 10%
| General Education Learning Outcomes / Assessment Methods | |
| Learning Outcomes | Assessment Methods |
| Upon successful completion of this course the student shall be able to: | To evaluate the students’ achievement of the learning objectives, the professor will do the following: |
| 1. Integrate Learning – Applyknowledge of building codes pertaining to egress and fire protection/suppression to design without compromising design aesthetics. | 1. Review students’ ability to synthesize circulation, zoning, urban context, views, construction types, hierarchy, codes, and precedents into their design. |
| 2. Synthesize site circulation, zoning, urban context, and views to design.(Inquiry/ Analysis) | 2. Review students’ ability to incorporate knowledge from site analysis into design. |
| 3. Demonstrate knowledge of different societies’ values regarding space and its social implications. (Community/Civic Engagement) | 3. Review students’ integration of knowledge of community and living in housing design.
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| 4. Show ability to contribute actively by applying knowledge to the identification and analysis of societal and professional problems to enact solutions. (Professional/Personal Development) | 4. Evaluate final design presentation for key elements of professional knowledge integrated successfully into project. |
| National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) Students Performance Criteria (SPC)/ Assessment Methods | |
| Learning Outcomes | Assessment Methods |
| Upon successful completion of this course the student shall be able to:
(Realm . Number) title [depth] |
To evaluate the students’ achievement of the learning objectives, the professor will do the following: |
| 1. (A.4) Architectural Design Skills [Reinforced]
Ability to effectively use basic formal, organizational and environmental principles and the capacity of each to inform two- and three-dimensional design. |
1. Review students process of developing their design ideas through graphic and written assignments.
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| 2. (B.2) Site Design[Master] Ability to respond to site characteristics including urban context and developmental patterning, historical fabric, soil, topography, ecology, climate, and building orientation, in the development of a project design. |
2. Evaluate through assignments the ability to synthesize the site elements in to a clear understanding of the characteristics of the site and formulate knowledge to develop a design solution based on this information. |
| 2. (B.3) Codes and Regulations [Master]
Ability to design sites, facilities, and systems consistent with the principles of life-safety standards, accessibility standards and other codes and regulations. |
3. Demonstrate the knowledge of life-safety standards, accessibility and other code and regulation in the developed design solution. |
WEEK 1 Introduction to course content.
WEEK 2 Site visit and Data gathering. Site model. Zoning Development
WEEK 3 Special District Zoning of proposed site
WEEK 4 Precedent research + Analysis Typology of Housing + Programming
WEEK 5 Concept Development
WEEK 6 Formulation of site strategies and design Principles (parti ideas)
Discussion of site selection and orientation of program on site.
Diagrammatic Site layout showing ideas of unit configurations, including exterior spaces and orientation – show 4 different layouts (Macro)
There is currently a lack of innovative, affordable multi-family housing in Brooklyn. Many families are leaving the city for the suburbs as the housing is very limited. With this project, you have the opportunity to explore the future, question the past and re-invent the notion of responsible affordable housing with an emphasis on sustainability while addressing higher principles of societal health, human sustenance, site integration, energy production and appropriate materials
Design units to provide space for sleeping, eating, living, and normal daily activities. Spaces may overlap, be interchangeable, flexible, moveable, multi-functional, etc. to fit the needs of your family.
Program: Studios, One Bedrooms, Two Bedrooms and Three Bedrooms
Bicycle parking required, along with space for electric car parking with plug-in
stations
Must provide central elevators along with two stairs from each unit as determined by Bduilgind Code.
You may mirror, rotate, push/pull, stack,… this unit to create the whole.
WEEK 7 Introduction to Individual Residential Unit. Interior planning design concepts and requirements. Discussion of furniture layout, space planning.
WEEK 8 Mid-term review
WEEK 9 Design development – your building and public space
Diagrams of Massing: Generate a series of diagrams showing different variations of your unit with relation to the site. There should be at least ten different massings of your unit. They should be color coded or noted of which program is located in each container.
Choose your final layout of site – and create diagrams of the first floor showing the common space, elevator/stair cores, how you will use the exterior spaces (walks, bbq areas, seating, gardening…. Specific to the needs of your tenants) Create site sections showing how these elements stack with the living spaces from you micro design.
WEEK 10 Plans, Sections and Massing of Unit and Typical Floor layouts. Exterior connections to Site
WEEK 11 Interior space development
WEEK 12 Exterior Elevations; Fenestrations, landscaping and Exterior spaces.
WEEK 13 Desk Crits
WEEK 14 Desk Crits
WEEK 15 Final Presentation+ Submittal of PDFs
