Grad. Project I

Graduation Project I and II constitute a 2-term studio that synthesize knowledge of the Architecture and Urban Design Program through a multidisciplinary, integrative and professional approach. The course aims to develop the students’ personal skills to enable them to provide critical responses and demonstrate independence and ability to tackle a wide range of architectural and urban design standard regular projects. Working in continuity with Graduation Project II, the main goal of this course is to embark upon the development of a complex project, dealing with inter-scale design challenges integrating urban, social, psychological, cultural, technological, ecological, creative and economic input. In the first term, each student will define the scope and rationale, the program and the specific site within a broad area and will follow general guidelines to formulate the design objectives. At the level of a preliminary design, fundamentals of the project will be set (scales from 1/10.000 to 1/100): place, brief, strategies and concept and general solution guidelines, all of which will take into consideration the cognitive and behavioural implications of the design in addition to environmental, economic and social sustainability.