Studio 2

The aim of Studio Work 2 is for all students to demonstrate: the ability to use the process of design as an achieved skill with emphasis on documenting design decisions and how they are reached together with the ability to organise the design of moderately complex buildings in plan and section, in response to their external context and constraint in order to satisfy the demands of the building programme and its users; the ability to formulate and articulate clear intentions, and to test design ideas against them; the ability to organise and systematise working practices, and to reinvest them with the knowledge gained through critical reflection; the ability to work with others and manage discourse through public debate and exhibition; a working knowledge of 2D and 3D CAAD systems sufficient to use them to develop a design projec; and the ability to convey solutions, intentions or hypotheses and a growing architectural and environmental sensibility through the choice of an appropriate medium.