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Master of Architecture Studio C (ABPL90142)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 25Dual-Delivery (Parkville)

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Overview

Availability(Quotas apply)
Summer Term - Dual-Delivery
Semester 1 (Early-Start) - Dual-Delivery
Semester 2 (Early-Start) - Dual-Delivery
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This studio emphasises how successful architectural designs express ideas based in well-grounded, critical thinking, and on values manifest in visions of desired futures. Through design projects and analysis of seminal works, students will develop both design ideas for projects and architectural expressions of those ideas. Autonomous studio options will cover a range of project types including housing, public institutions and urban design, taught with an emphasis on architecture as idea, materiality or program.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject, students should be able to:



  • Successfully create and resolve the design of a building of medium complexity
  • Evaluate results of their work in relation to the environmental and social context and their chosen intellectual traditions
  • Communicate a complex design vision in a clear and professional manner.

Generic skills

  • An understanding of ethical responses to issues.
  • Identification of emerging trends in practice.
  • Visual and oral presentation techniques.
  • Three-dimensional representation.
  • Critical thinking and analysis.
  • Capacity for independent thought and reflection.
  • Creative response to complex problems.

Last updated: 29 July 2022

Eligibility and requirements

Prerequisites

Students must meet one of the following prerequisite options:

Option 1

Admission into the 200pt Program course entry point in the MC-ARCH Master of Architecture

Option 2

Admission into one of the following:

  • 300pt Program course entry point in the MC-ARCH Master of Architecture
  • MC-ARCH3Y Master of Architecture

AND

All of

Code Name Teaching period Credit Points
ABPL90284 Master of Architecture Studio A
Semester 1
 25
ABPL90285 Master of Architecture Studio B
Semester 2
 25
ABPL90286 Construction Methods A
Semester 1
 12.5
ABPL90287 Architectural Technology
Semester 2
 12.5
ABPL90288 Architectural Cultures 1: Modernism
Semester 1
 12.5
ABPL90289 Architectural Cultures 2:After Modernism
Semester 2
 12.5

Corequisites

None

Non-allowed subjects

None

Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)

The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.

Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home

Last updated: 29 July 2022

Assessment

DescriptionTimingPercentage

A mid-semester jury review (critique) oral presentation equivalent to 100 hours of work demonstrating design output that may include physical models, drawings, written assignments, site analyses, journals and sketches.

  • 100 hours (of work required)
Mid semester30%

An end of semester jury review (critique) oral presentation equivalent to 240 hours of work building on work developed throughout the semester demonstrating design output that may include physical models, drawings, written assignments, site analyses and sketches.

  • 240 hours (of work required)
End of semester70%
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend 75% of studios and pass the end of semester final oral presentation.N/A

Last updated: 29 July 2022

Quotas apply to this subject

Dates & times

  • Summer Term
    Principal coordinatorDonald Bates
    Mode of deliveryDual-Delivery (Parkville)
    Contact hours up to 84 hours including lecture class and Studios
    Total time commitment340 hours
    Teaching period 4 January 2022 to 19 February 2022
    Last self-enrol date12 December 2021
    Census date14 January 2022
    Last date to withdraw without fail 4 February 2022
    Assessment period ends21 February 2022

    Summer Term contact information

    Subject coordinator: Donald Leslie Bates donald.bates@unimelb.edu.au

    Senior Tutor: Kristen Wang kristen.wang@unimelb.edu.au

  • Semester 1 (Early-Start)
    Principal coordinatorDonald Bates
    Mode of deliveryDual-Delivery (Parkville)
    Contact hours up to 84 hours including lecture class and Studios
    Total time commitment340 hours
    Teaching period25 February 2022 to 29 May 2022
    Last self-enrol date 4 March 2022
    Census date31 March 2022
    Last date to withdraw without fail 6 May 2022
    Assessment period ends24 June 2022

    Semester 1 (Early-Start) contact information

    Subject coordinator: Donald Leslie Bates donald.bates@unimelb.edu.au

    Senior tutor: Kristen Wang kristen.wang@unimelb.edu.au

  • Semester 2 (Early-Start)
    Principal coordinatorDonald Bates
    Mode of deliveryDual-Delivery (Parkville)
    Contact hours up to 84 hours including lecture class and Studios
    Total time commitment340 hours
    Teaching period22 July 2022 to 23 October 2022
    Last self-enrol date29 July 2022
    Census date31 August 2022
    Last date to withdraw without fail23 September 2022
    Assessment period ends18 November 2022

    Semester 2 (Early-Start) contact information

    Subject coordinator: Donald Leslie Bates donald.bates@unimelb.edu.au

    Senior tutor: Kristen Wang kristen.wang@unimelb.edu.au

Time commitment details

340 hours

Additional delivery details

An enrolment quota of 96 applies to the Summer Term intensive. This quota applies to the combined enrolments in ABPL90142, ABPL90143 and ABPL90115.
Students will be selected into the subject as they self-enrol during the timely re-enrolment period. If the enrolment quota is exceeded, availability of additional places will be up to the Subject Coordinator’s discretion.
Any students enrolling after the quota has been reached will be withdrawn from the subject and advised of the alternative subjects available.
For detailed information on the quota subject application process and due dates, refer to the EDSC Quota Subjects webpage.

Studio class allocation process is done via a ballot, for further information please refer to the MSD Studios webpage

Last updated: 29 July 2022

Further information

  • Texts

    Prescribed texts

    There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.

  • Related Handbook entries

    This subject contributes to the following:

    TypeName
    CourseMaster of Architectural Engineering
    CourseMaster of Architecture
  • Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students

    This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.

Last updated: 29 July 2022