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  • 48 300: Architecture Design Studio: Environment

    18.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Design Studio III: Building and Site is a required course taught in the third year. The subjects of the Third Year Fall Semester are the reciprocal orders of buildings and landscapes and the development of the building site. The work builds on knowledge gained in prerequisite and co-requisite courses including 48-312 Site Engineering. This course asks students to continue their investigations into the formal and spatial composition and enquiries of previous semesters with a focus on the following concepts: Occupancy: Social and cultural phenomena, dimension/measurement and cycles of time relating to human and non-human occupancy Site assessment: site inventory at many scales Grading and surface manipulation: compatibility of grading with related technical considerations for water management, ground structures, surfacing, plants, and maintenance Road alignment: design of roads and parking to support construction, service and the anticipated occupancies, design of roads to connect to other roads with appropriate sight lines, stack spaces, and turning requirements, layout and sizing of parking spaces for vehicles Stormwater: volume and direction of runoff water on both the undisturbed and developed areas, storm water surface system, Plants: selection of plants and plant communities with consideration for regional, local, and site-specific factors
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  • 48 305: Architecture Design Studio: Comprehensive

    18.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    The basis for the CMU studio course sequence is the expectation that the student retains and applies knowledge gained each semester to the current studio. The spring semester of the third year of architectural studies at Carnegie Mellon University is concerned with the detailed development and refinement of an architectural design as informed by the technical knowledge of structural systems, enclosure systems and the process of construction. The student is expected to articulate concepts and develop designs with more precision and in greater detail than done in previous studios and courses. In addition to criteria related to the development of design skills appropriate to one's sixth semester of the studio sequence, the following criteria are an explicit part of the evaluation of the student work: Aesthetics: The degree to which the design responds to formal issues as articulated in prior design studios. Structural System: The degree to which the proposed building is presented as a statically stable structure which defines the spatial order and satisfies the architectural intentions made explicit in the project. Enclosure System: The degree to which the proposed enclosure system satisfies the design requirements and responds to the physical phenomena of the environment into which it is placed. Material Selection: The degree to which the selected building materials and their implementation are appropriate to the occupancy, articulate the architectural order, and satisfy the physical design requirements. Constructability: The degree to which the proposed building is developed in response to an understanding of the processes of construction. Presentation: The clarity, craft and completeness of the presentation.
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  • 48 312: Site Engineering and Foundations

    6.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Site Engineering and Foundations is a required course taught in the third year. It is a companion course to the Site Studio (48-300) and covers materials related to the issues of surface and its manipulation (grading, road alignment and stormwater), soils (fundamentals of soil mechanics) and structures (fundamentals of foundation design). Students are introduced to the conceptual fundamentals, exposed to applications in the field, and develop skills which are demonstrated in this class and in their studio work. The course syllabus is broader than found in any existing text treatment, but is supported by one required textbook, two recommended texts and excerpts from other sources.
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  • 48 315: Environment I: Climate & Energy

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Environmental Systems is a required course taught in the third year. This course introduces architectural design responses for energy conservation, human comfort, and the site-specific dynamics of climate. Students are expected to combine an understanding of the basic laws of comfort and heat flow with the variables of local climate to create regionally appropriate energy design guidelines for their design projects. The state of the art in building energy conservation and passive heating and cooling technologies, as well as the emerging field of sustainable design are presented, with take-home readings and assignments. To stress the significance of architectural design decision making on energy consumption and comfort, full design specifications and hand calculations are completed individually by each student for a residential-scale building. Students compile a professional energy consultant's report, designing the most viable energy conservation retrofit measures for their client from: siting, massing, organization, enclosure detailing, opening control, to passive system integration and management. An overview of world energy consumption in buildings and energy design standards is challenged by lectures on building energy conservation successes and competitive challenges of sustainability. The course ends with a focus on the design integration of natural conditioning systems and the potentially dynamic interface of mechanical systems in small- and large-scale buildings.
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  • 48 327: Modeling Moderns

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Modeling Modern is a course designed to get behind the skin of modern architecture. Through a familiarity with C20th buildings by architects including Kahn, Gropius and Berndtson , which we will visit and read in the light of their original orthographic construction drawings, the class will analyse the architecture through its theory, context and construction. The fuller understanding of the architects instructions conceptually connects flat with formed. The class wil translate the documents into a computer model in Revit which will be used to fabricate a physical scale model, full scale detail components, and develop animation of the construction sequence. This class will stretch our forensic powers, use a platform for collaborative work and build skills in model creation.
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  • 48 328: Detailing Architecture

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course looks toward the role of the architectural detail in the formation and thematic development of a work of architecture. Students interested in this course need to have willingness to explore and research building details, speculate on their appropriateness and document through analytical drawing their intent and assembly. The course will be composed of a weekly lecture and weekly discussion of research and drawing development made by each of the students.
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  • 48 329: FilmSpace

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Film and architecture present opposing representational challenges. While architecture is explicitly spatial and implicitly temporal, film is the inverse: regimented by time but flat and two-dimensional. Film, especially narrative film, documents movements in space. We have, over time, learned to understand movement in film-space through the evolution of camera techniques, lighting, editing, and set design. These constructs together make a specific and well-established set of spatial representation conventions so common they are practically unseen. This course will explore and analyze the spatial dimension of film. While most films merely present narrative action through ?mise-en-scene? and set design, certain films have attempted to present spatial and phenomenal experiences. These films outline a representational challenge of working outside the typical limitations of a medium. We will use direct sources (film screenings) and readings to build a catalog of film techniques related to spatial representation. Assignments will include student-generated representations in graphic and time-based media to analyze specific films.
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  • 48 332: Architecture Explorations: Teaching and Learning

    6.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    In this course, students will learn about effective strategies for teaching architecture and the built environment. Topics include the cognitive differences between novices and experts, instructional techniques, and goal alignment. As part of the coursework, each student will implement these teaching strategies to design and teach a lesson. Elements of developmental psychology, learning theories, and classroom practices will inform the architectural education lesson. Teaching and learning techniques can be generalized for communication with clients, practice, and the community.
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  • 48 333: Architecture Explorations

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    In this course, students will learn about effective strategies for teaching architecture and the built environment. Topics include the cognitive differences between novices and experts, instructional techniques, and goal alignment. As part of the coursework, each student will implement these teaching strategies to design and teach a lesson. Elements of developmental psychology, learning theories, and classroom practices will inform the architectural education lesson. Teaching and learning techniques can be generalized for communication with clients, practice, and the community.
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