Examination arrangement

Course content

Historical aspect: 10%
Registration, mesuring and presentation of existing buildings and-/or landscapes.
Architectural design: 75%
Form and colour studies:15%
Exercises in two- and threedimensional form.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:
The course provides a basic introduction to the theoretical, practical and esthetical basis of Architecture. Emphasize on space; structure and form.

Skills/ Practice in:
• Teamwork: Develop the ability both to cooperate with other students and to make individual statements as a fundament in the creative process.
• Developing and realizing architectural ideas in text, drawings and model.
• The use of the relevant tools provided in the different stages in a projects development. Emphasize on analog drawings and models as tools for development.
• The basic conventions in drawing.
• Registering, measuring and communicating information and qualities from a place in the landscape. In drawings, texts, photography etc.
• Photography and basic skills related to digital imaging tools.

General knowledge:
The students will be exposed to relevant references concerning basic architectural topics both in the tutorial situation as well as in lectures. To achieve a basic understanding of construction and material the students are introduced to full scale building in the beginning of the semester.

Learning methods and activities

Practical part: Construction work,- scale 1:1. Registration, measuring and presentation of existing buildings and-/or landscaps. Individual project assignment. (” Place, space and visual expression I”. Architectural suggestions in the landscape.)Workshops. Groupwork is emphezised. The groups different perspectives and experiences becomes a part of the basis of knowlegde. Theoretical part: Lectures, literature. Excursions: A short excursion where registration, measuring and presentation (drawing and models) of existing buildings and-/or landscape is the main issue.

Specific conditions