The traditional processes of design are well documented and are a stable feature within architectural education. Upon completing architectural studies, a prerequisite of entering the architectural profession is a demonstration of an intimate understanding of these procedures through prescribed examination. However, design, construction and occupation are now manifested by new mediums and modalities. (Extracted from the Topic Description of Design 2 Course Outline)
These new kinds of mediums and modlities used in architectural design are closely related to Culture Technology. To define Culture Technology, it is simply an intellectual knowledge or a physical technolgy that prototypes, creates, designs, develops and distributes digital cultural contents but in a wider concept, it also refers to multiple technologies that incorporates in design, art and anthropology. Of course, architecture is associated with culture technology and there has been significant changes throughout periods of time, as I mentioned above. Hence, new tools (especially mechanical and digital) such as the Internet, Virtual World, BIM, CNC, laser cutting and new communication technologies have not just made designers and architects to work fast, accurate and efficiently but influenced their working procedures (making and documenting) and fundamental design ideas so that it may develop and change to create the world better place for modern society to live in.
The key point of this project is not that Architecture is the silent but that its story is more complex and subtly rendered. Through the work, exercises and projects completed, as two hotels are designed, each group of three students will carefully and mindfully engage in giving a contemporary voice to their own architectural expression. Upon completion of this course we should be able to develop strategies that allow productive investigations of the underlying themes; Space, Matter, Culture and Process in Architecture Design.
Up-coming Contents
-How Ideas Have Sex - Matt Ridley
-Questions of Space - Bernard Tschumi
-Evolutions of Architecture - Charles Jencks
-Methods of Manipulation - Jennifer Bloomer
-Hotel Research
-Shared Drawings of Ideas About the City Site and Hotels
-The Ultimate City
-Interpretation of the City Site through Images
-Stop Animations
-Avatars
-Material Card
-Data Collection of Micro-Climate
-Site Summary of Auckland CBD (City)
-Questions of Space - Bernard Tschumi
-Evolutions of Architecture - Charles Jencks
-Methods of Manipulation - Jennifer Bloomer
-Hotel Research
-Shared Drawings of Ideas About the City Site and Hotels
-The Ultimate City
-Interpretation of the City Site through Images
-Stop Animations
-Avatars
-Material Card
-Data Collection of Micro-Climate
-Site Summary of Auckland CBD (City)