Graduation Project II

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 I, 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 this phase, the project elaborated in Graduation Project I is developed in detail moving from the conceptual design ideas to the detailed technical project. Students will: define the relationship between the main concept of the project and its embodiment in physical environment; demonstrate their capacity to deliberately create space and form at different scales; clearly demonstrate an understanding of the building process showing coherence between general ideas and detail (integrate technological solutions - constructional, structural and energy - and materials); demonstrate an awareness of the performance and meaning of the resulting built environment with regard to how people will interact with it (perceive it, use it, maintain it).