Architecture is developped and designed in reration to various conditions such as regionality, institution, technology, their users and so on. Architectural Design are kinds of representation of understanding and translation of those conditions. From the other point of view, architectural awareness, such as perception, recognition, experiment, usability and meanings will be given by these representation through its physical design. In this course, we will discuss user oriented design of architecture and built environment through comparative consideration of designl subjects on planning phase and the representation form on the phase of post occupancy.
The main theme of this course is spatial tolerance as peoples environment.
"Through this course, students will understand architectural awareness on human' short and long term experiences, and be able to design architecture based on those subjects. In detail, by the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Clarify specific relationship between human behavior and built-environment on various aspects of architecture.
2) Research physical, social and cultural factors of architecture.
3) Design architectures and buil-environments by using the various point of view, such as human, social, historical, environmental and technical viewpoints."
Architectural Design, Built Environment, Public Space, Human centered design
✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
"At the biggining of this course, there are introductions for taking each classes and developping students' own research topics.Classes will be separate to three themes and one groupe-work project.
Every five theme class will be composed of lecture and student' presentation.Students should discuss actively.
Finally, students group will visit specific site for field-work and design project, and present projects for discussion.
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Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Concept of Architectural awareness and design System image and design model | Make research groups and chose specific sites |
Class 2 | Usability in architectural design 1: lecture | |
Class 3 | Usability in architectural design 2: student' presentation | |
Class 4 | Workshop on usability | Analysis and preparation for presentation |
Class 5 | Presentation on usability | Presentation by each student |
Class 6 | Environmental forces and technology 1 | |
Class 7 | Environmental forces and technology 2 | Analysis and presentation |
Class 8 | Workshop on environmental force and technology on architectural design | Analysis and preparation for presentation |
Class 9 | Social and historical forces 1 | |
Class 10 | Social and historical forces 2 | |
Class 11 | Workshop on environmental, social and historical forces on specific site | Discussion on group by the viewpoints of past classes |
Class 12 | Presentation on social and historical forces on specific site | Presentation and discussion |
Class 13 | Study on spatial tolerance of ordinary space through the fieldwork | Field-work by group |
Class 14 | Workshop for improvement of spatial tolerance on specific site | Discussion and analysis |
Class 15 | Final presentation | Presentation by group |
Course materials will be given via OCW or in each class.
References: A. Rapoport, Culture, Architecture, and Design / W. Mitchel, Logic of Architecture / D.A.Norman, The Phsychology of Everyday Things, R. Banham, Architecture of the well-tempered environment / E. Ford, The Details of Modern Architecture / K. Frampton, Modern Architecture: Critical History / C. Alexander, A Pattern language / J.Gehl, Cities for People
Course materials will be given via OCW or in each class.
Presentation in classes (40%).
Final presentation (40%)
Report of group-work (20%).
Students should have basic knowledge and motivation for architectural or urban design.
nasu.s.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp
Tue.14:00-15:30, Contact by e-mail in advance to schedule an appointment.