Architecture, Basic Course A1

Description

One of four basic courses during the student’s first two years, this course aims to give him or her step-by-step a basic knowledge and ability to use an architect’s equipment and understand the arts of giving architectural form and perceiving spatial conditions, and how individual buildings and towns are technically built and used. The student learns how with these means to give form to buildings or built environments in a spatial context by working and investigating creatively, to take account of various factors in expressing architectural ideas; and to use drawings, sketches, models, written texts and images to communicate with others. This course (Course A) emphasizes the architecture of residential apartments and how it relates to those who live in them. Knowledge and understanding For a passing grade the student must individually, but with support from a teacher describe and analyze a dwelling’s architectural qualities, giving particular attention to the interplay between its aesthetic, spatial and functional aspects and, in his or her individual project, balance these aspects against one another in giving form to the object of the project individually, but with support from a teacher choose and present building materials and its architectural effects from the points of view of sustainability, its character and expression and its significance for those who experience it. Competences and skills For a passing grade the student must individually, but with support from a teacher design a dwelling that, in a given spatial and architectural context, expresses an architectural idea. individually, but with support from a teacher in both a discussion of existing dwellings and a presentation of his or her own project make use of the relevant architectural terms and concepts. individually, but with support from a teacher present a dwelling orally and in drawings and models for his or her fellow students and their teachers to mediate its architectural ideas clearly, correctly and in good order. Judgement and approach For a passing grade the student must individually, but with support from a teacher compare and evaluate various dwellings with special respect to their architectural values and the values placed on them by various groups of users in various situations. individually, but with support from a teacher following given instructions, independently seek for knowledge and resolutions in a design process. Teaching proceeds in lectures, projects, exercises, seminars, study trips, workshops and written work. The main emphasis is on teaching students to consider and present what they have learned in the form of drawings, models, sketches, images, texts and other relevant media. At the end of each term each student’s work is assembled in a portfolio that is used in a pedagogic discussion with him or her. The project work and exercises of this course include theory, analysis and applied gestalt of a dwelling in a known context, in which its spatial qualities—movement within it, the proportions of its rooms, its light, functions, dimensions and social aspects—are investigated. In addition, students are taught how to use computers and other technical means, including artistic techniques LTH programme course for Architecture. Choice group: mandatory. Language: The course will be given in Swedish. Suitable for foreign students: False. Assumed prior knowledge flag: 0. Entry requirements flag: 0.