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.
1. Apply different methods of investigation, data gathering and thorough analyses to define an architectural / urban design problem.
2. Critically analyze an architectural / urban design problem and draw conclusions to establish a sound understanding of the problem.
3. Investigate various approaches to address its solutions.
4. SWOT different sites and analyze the chosen one.
5. Apply comprehensive analysis of precedents relevant to the problem.
6. Acquire the design requirements of the studied problem including an architectural space and functional program.
7. Work successfully both individually and as a team member.
8. Communicate efficiently in written, graphical and verbal modes.