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Making the Invisible Visible (ABPL90431)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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This subject studies the perception of atmospheres in architecture and explores ways to communicate their transient, immaterial and vague qualities. The subject focuses on the life experiences of built architectural spaces as an engaging means for their deep knowledge and a fundamental condition for architectural design. Thus, it aims to open a territory for the enquiry of architecture through its more ambiguous qualities. These are a place’s scale, its soundscape, its lights and shades, its colours and textures, its scents or the changing presence of people in buildings. By a series of experimental exercises, the students are asked to develop innovative notational systems to analyse the atmospheric qualities of a case study and to produce a single representation that expresses its atmosphere as the final submission of the subject. Thus, it is a practice-based subject that encourages the exploration of the built environment through in-site observation and that is conducted through creative work.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject the student is expected to:
- Develop awareness about transient, immaterial and vague qualities of architecture works.
- Interpret and analyse non-dimensional and non-formal properties of existing buildings through personal notational systems.
- Characterise and communicate the experience of being in a place in an expressive, rich and synthetic manner.
- Display a knowledge of the contemporary debates on the topics of representation and architectural atmospheres.
Generic skills
- The ability to conduct a research based on primary sources.
- The ability to abstract and notate values such as sound, light, texture, movement, smell, and temperature.
- The capacity to produce architecture representations other than conventional drawings and models.
- The capacity to communicate the results of research by graphic and written media
Last updated: 31 January 2024