86005 Design Studio: Inhabitations

Description

This studio introduces students to the core principles, concepts, skills, and practices of contemporary interior architecture. This primarily includes areas of space planning, site analysis, and client engagement. The subject introduces students to the concept of adaptive reuse, allowing for a critical and creative exploration of different histories of inhabitation while designing projects for contemporary (spatial and social) conditions.

Students incorporate practical design skills with critical research techniques, and work towards developing cohesive design projects. With a strong emphasis on adaptive reuse, co-working and ‘living and working’ scenarios, the studio engages with and responds to the prominent global inhabitation practices. As such, it offers an opportunity to learn and experiment in thinking and practice as means of developing one’s own design approach.

A single design project constitutes the primary vehicle for learning and development throughout the subject. The subject comprises of interactive lectures, weekly tutorials and design studios. Lectures and tutorials unpack contemporary and historical case studies, and theoretical frameworks concerning primarily domestic typologies.

Design projects are framed within a theoretical discourse and developed within the design environment. Projects within the design tutorials build spatial intelligence and innovative approaches to design through thoughtful and rigorous individual design processes. Students work alongside studio leaders to incorporate specific knowledge from the lectures through a combination of iterative modelling, drawings, and sketch design developments in a weekly ‘pin up and present’ studio format.