Studio Syllabus
Rodrigo Guardia
Hybrid/Housing Studio
The goal of the studio is to design urban buildings that accommodate housing together with other uses, such as commerce, public space, corporate offices, entertainment, light industry, and other uses proposed by the students.
Housing is an essential component of a city’s Urban Design strategy, hybrid buildings seek to build on 24 hour neighborhoods, cutting travel times and street parking demand. There will be requirements on the ratio of 3bed-room, 2 bed rooms and studios.
The studio will address the buildings’ impact on the ground plane, and seek to create multi-story pedestrian environments, and connectivity with mass transit systems in place.
The semester long exercise will consist in each student’s designing a building or complex in adjacent parcels of land. The relationships between the buildings and the resulting in-between spaces, will inform the design process as the semester progresses.
The students will be free to propose zoning and FAR variances, as long as they support them with their research. The size and rise of the buildings will ultimately be determined by the students.
The sequence will be as follows:
1st week: Initial site assessment: Students will conduct joint research and prepare presentations about their sites, each one will research and present a specific topic about the site.
2nd week: Programming discussion: presentation of proposed programs and adjacencies
3rd week: Case studies. Presentation of existing buildings or projects applicable to the site.
4th week: Project development, start during this 4 week period the research will be converted into schemes, there will be group and individual critiques, and one pin-up.
8th week: Midterm. A group massing site model will be constructed and individual projects placed on it.
9th week: Synergy phase (3 weeks): After the midterm presentation the students will assess the impact their individual buildings have on the whole of the site, and begin to address the relationship of the building with the urban fabric, as they further refine their schemes.
12th week: Architectural schemes: at this stage the projects will evolve toward completion of the architectural project.
13th week: Having completed the overall designs, each student will pick a focus point within their project, that illustrated the buildings urban interactions, enlarge and document it with a model that shows detail and materiality.
14th week: Final charrette, for two weeks.
16th week: Final presentation.
The specific site will be announced on the first session.
Hybrid/Housing Studio
The goal of the studio is to design urban buildings that accommodate housing together with other uses, such as commerce, public space, corporate offices, entertainment, light industry, and other uses proposed by the students.
Housing is an essential component of a city’s Urban Design strategy, hybrid buildings seek to build on 24 hour neighborhoods, cutting travel times and street parking demand. There will be requirements on the ratio of 3bed-room, 2 bed rooms and studios.
The studio will address the buildings’ impact on the ground plane, and seek to create multi-story pedestrian environments, and connectivity with mass transit systems in place.
The semester long exercise will consist in each student’s designing a building or complex in adjacent parcels of land. The relationships between the buildings and the resulting in-between spaces, will inform the design process as the semester progresses.
The students will be free to propose zoning and FAR variances, as long as they support them with their research. The size and rise of the buildings will ultimately be determined by the students.
The sequence will be as follows:
1st week: Initial site assessment: Students will conduct joint research and prepare presentations about their sites, each one will research and present a specific topic about the site.
2nd week: Programming discussion: presentation of proposed programs and adjacencies
3rd week: Case studies. Presentation of existing buildings or projects applicable to the site.
4th week: Project development, start during this 4 week period the research will be converted into schemes, there will be group and individual critiques, and one pin-up.
8th week: Midterm. A group massing site model will be constructed and individual projects placed on it.
9th week: Synergy phase (3 weeks): After the midterm presentation the students will assess the impact their individual buildings have on the whole of the site, and begin to address the relationship of the building with the urban fabric, as they further refine their schemes.
12th week: Architectural schemes: at this stage the projects will evolve toward completion of the architectural project.
13th week: Having completed the overall designs, each student will pick a focus point within their project, that illustrated the buildings urban interactions, enlarge and document it with a model that shows detail and materiality.
14th week: Final charrette, for two weeks.
16th week: Final presentation.
The specific site will be announced on the first session.
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