We invite you to join our Spring 2023 final studio reviews.
All reviews are open to the public.
For questions, please get in touch with the respective faculty under the scheduled dates below:
Wednesday – Apr 19
SESSION 1
Time: 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Carolyn and Kem Gardner Commons, 3700
Class: ARCH 6613 – 001 Comprehensive Building Technology II
Review Type: Final Project Presentations (Groups 1 to 7)
Topic: Opatija International School of Architecture & Design and The Quito City International Conference Center and Recreation Park
Course Description: This graduate course is intended to provide students with an advanced understanding of building systems and assemblies (environmental control systems, structural systems, life safety systems, building envelope, and materials) so that students can evaluate conditions and context to choose and integrate appropriate technological solutions for architectural design problems. The course is integrated with a graduate design studio (ARCH 6015), and students are expected to apply the knowledge obtained in this course to their design projects. The first task of the course is to understand the relation of building systems to the architectural design process and environmental conditions. The second task is to examine the dynamic interaction between building systems and enclosures, environmental conditions and building performance measures they are meant to provide. The course’s final task is to integrate concepts into students’ studio design projects. Students are expected to develop techniques for integrating structural systems, environmental control systems, and building enclosures, focusing on improving the overall building performance.
Faculty: Ajla Aksamija
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SESSION 2
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Architecture Building, Bailey Gallery
Class: ARCH 6015 – 001 Graduate Architectural Studio II
Review Type: Final Review
Topic: Opatija International School of Architecture & Design
Course Description: This studio explored the potential of a sustainable building renewal of an abandoned motel project between the Croatian cities of Opatija and Rijeka. Motel Sljeme Preluka (Ridge) is no longer used and hovers high above the Adriatic Sea. The project was included on the cultural heritage list of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia in 2015, making it the first project to receive this status in the vicinity of Rijeka after World War II. This course is integrated with ARCH 6613 Comprehensive Building Technology II class.
Faculty: Jörg Rügemer
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SESSION 3
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Architecture Building, Bailey Gallery
Class: ARCH 4011 – 003 Architectural Design Studio IV
Review Type: Final Review
Topic: Airport Terminal
Course Description: This capstone undergraduate studio experience offers students a choice of projects integrating technological, contextual, and/or theoretical issues to design increasingly complex architecture. An emphasis on synthesis, process, and intention results in developing a student’s methodology. Issues of urban architecture and building typology are considered along with the interrelationships among process, site, precedent, and tectonics as designs’ response to programmatic requirements.
Faculty: Zahra Hassanipour
Friday – Apr 21
SESSION 1
Time: 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Carolyn and Kem Gardner Commons, 3700
Class: ARCH 6613 – 001 Comprehensive Building Technology II
Review Type: Final Project Presentations (Groups 8 to 13)
Topic: Opatija International School of Architecture & Design and The Quito City International Conference Center and Recreation Park
Course Description: This graduate course is intended to provide students with an advanced understanding of building systems and assemblies (environmental control systems, structural systems, life safety systems, building envelope, and materials) so that students can evaluate conditions and context to choose and integrate appropriate technological solutions for architectural design problems. The course is integrated with a graduate design studio (ARCH 6015), and students are expected to apply the knowledge obtained in this course to their design projects. The first task of the course is to understand the relation of building systems to the architectural design process and environmental conditions. The second task is to examine the dynamic interaction between building systems and enclosures, environmental conditions and building performance measures they are meant to provide. The course’s final task is to integrate concepts into students’ studio design projects. Students are expected to develop techniques for integrating structural systems, environmental control systems, and building enclosures, focusing on improving the overall building performance.
Faculty: Ajla Aksamija
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SESSION 2
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Architecture Building, Bailey Gallery
Class: ARCH 4011 – 002 Architectural Design Studio IV
Review Type: Final Review
Topic: Building with Earth
Course Description: One of the most urgent challenges facing our planet today is the increasing pressers on extracting its resources. Today 80% of our energy needs are provided by burning fossil fuels (oil, coal, and gas), which represent the largest source of global CO2 emission into the atmosphere. Specifically for concrete construction, four billion tons of cement are produced yearly, accounting for 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions. In this context, architects, designers, and the building industry must explore solutions that reduce the impact on our planet, which can be instrumental in the responsible management of our resources and waste. To contribute to this discussion, this design studio is geared towards exploring low-impact sustainable design strategies that utilize the earth as an abundant resource for building materials. The studio discusses the challenges and opportunities of building with earth in today’s contemporary context, focusing on behavior, physical qualities, aesthetics, assembly, and tectonic qualities of locally available materials. Building with earth is one of the earliest expressions of our ability to create architecture with sustainable and readily abundant resources. ARCH 4011 Studio is a capstone studio experience exploring earthen building technology as a low-impact and sustainable strategy for designing within a contemporary context. This studio investigates the possibilities and limitations of using such technology in designing and crafting the built environment. This intensive studio requires a systematic and rigorous exploration of a self-directed architectural project. Students researched a building with earth technology to drive the design process and solutions for developing a cultural/resource center for the Navajo Nation located in the Sugarhouse neighborhood in Salt Lake City.
Faculty: Rima Ajlouni
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SESSION 3
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Architecture Building, Bailey Gallery
Class: ARCH 6011 – 001 Architectural Design Studio IVG
Review Type: Final Review
Topic: Material Means: An Architecture of [Spatial] Making
Course Description: This graduate architectural design studio is for students enrolled in the 3+ Master of Architecture program. The studio introduces architectural design projects of increasing programmatic and site complexity, with integration of materials and building systems.
Faculty: Hannah Vaughn
Monday – Apr 24
SESSION 1
Time: 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Architecture Building, Bailey Gallery
Class: ARCH 6015 – 002 Graduate Architectural Studio II
Review Type: Final Review
Topic: The Quito City International Conference Center and Recreation Park
Course Description: This studio explored the possibility of adaptive reuse of Plaza Simon Bolivar and existing facilities that are located on the intersection of Ave Gran Colombia and Ave 10 de Agosto (La Alameda de Quito Park) in the historic city of Quito, Ecuador for the development of an International Conference Center and Recreation Park. The site is located between the newer segment and the historic part of Quito City in Ecuador. The project is developed to complement the effort of the Quito Historic Center Corporation, a body established in 1994 to embark on development and public works projects while conserving the city’s historic architecture. This course is integrated with ARCH 6613 Comprehensive Building Technology II class.
Faculty: Timothy Adekunle
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SESSION 2
Time: 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Architecture Building, Room 129
Class: ARCH 2632 – 002 Advanced Architectural Design Workshop
Review Type: Final Review
Topic: Case Study + Guest House Design
Course Description: The undergraduate course provides additional experience and training in studio-related projects and skill development. The course focuses on 3-dimensional design, with an introduction to basic elements of form, basic ordering principles, fundamental architectural elements and space, the concept of scale, material selection and control, the role and effects of light in design, and an understanding of design in our experience at the human scale. The course introduces architectural drawing conventions (plan, section, elevation, etc.), technique and craft of physical model building, analog and digital representation methods, diagramming, and effective verbalization.
Faculty: Ashley Iordanov
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SESSION 3
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Architecture Building, Room 129 and Bailey Gallery
Class: ARCH 3011 Architectural Design Studio II (Sections 001, 002, 003 and 004)
Review Type: Final Review
Topic: Water Conservation Education Center/Site Planning Studio
Course Description: This course teaches students architectural design principles and the design process in a studio setting. Students work through projects that introduce depth and breadth of knowledge relative to design fundamentals through hands-on application. This course values the process as highly as production because it is critical to students’ development. This includes the ability to be self-critical, cycle through multiple iterations of a design concept, look to precedent, and adapt and adopt these into their work. The objectives of this course are to help students develop basic skills in architectural composition and representation, an awareness of the role of programs in architecture, and their awareness of the interaction between buildings and their context. Technical skills that are further developed include plan, section, and elevation; form generation and its relationship to space making; compositional techniques; intermediate material properties; basic programming skills; and intermediate model-making skills (both physical and computer-generated) and modes of representation (both digital and analog). This course is integrated with ARCH 3112 Site Planning and Urban Design class.
Faculty: Dwight Yee, Libby Haslam, Hansong Cho, and Jory Walker
Tuesday – Apr 25
SESSION 1
Time: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Location: Architecture Building, Bailey Gallery
Class: ARCH 6971 – 001 & 002 Final Studio
Review Type: Final Review
Topic: Final Studio
Course Description: This is a graduate capstone studio experience for the professional Master of Architecture program, which requires a systematic and rigorous exploration of a self-directed architectural project. The final design studio is intended to transform physical, ecological, social and cultural contexts, and bring forth new knowledge. Through analog and digital explorations across multiple scales, students develop spatial, organizational and material explorations that anticipate evolutionary trajectories.
Faculty: Valerie Greer and Anne Mooney