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In considering the factors which
influence the ambience of a
space, students are encouraged
to explore a range of reciprocal
qualities such as light/shadow,
rough/smooth, wide/narrow, open/
restricted and high/low. A balanced
arrangement of such qualities
helps create ambience, generating
interesting and stimulating rhythms,
perceptions of harmony or tension
which can trigger our emotions and
imagination.
Project #3 – “Trace/Place”
Architecture requires a considered
understanding of its context. Good
architecture of any scale should
enrich an individual’s experience
of the immediate surroundings in
which it is located, and must form
a specific and developed dialogue
with the sense of place.
For this final project, students are
required to design a small and
temporary structure which responds
to the physical and social traces of a
site. Through both subjective and
objective approaches, a chosen site
is analysed and explored, revealing
unique qualities and prompting a
specific response. Students develop
this initial response into a design
concept, and eventually into a small
architectural proposal, represented
through orthographic drawing and
model-making.
in semester two, students have the
opportunity to observe construction
processes on real building sites