Architecture 402: Architectural Design IV - Comprehensive Building
Spring 2007

NOTE regarding Final Jury: ALL Drawings, Models, and Video Presentations (on CD, DVD or flash drive) to be presented must be brought to the Miller Exhibit Room by 11:00 am Friday. No exceptions.

Sections and Critics

Student Projects

This website contains information intended to be common to all sections of Arch 402. Note that individual section critics may be using information that supersedes what is contained here. Please check with your own critic.

Please click on any of the underlined words below as needed:

• Calendar
• Calendar of Juries indicating which teams will present in which spaces
• Syllabus
• Readings
• Presentations from CBDS Supplement Course
• Computer Use
  • Instructions for setting up a team "Share" Space for your ArchiCAD files
  • Instructions for setting up a team website
  • Instructions for using 3D Studio or SketchUp with ArchiCAD
  • Instructions for organizing and plotting CDs using ArchiCAD 
• Project: A new athletic facility for the IDEA Public Charter School in Washington, DC
  • Client and Project information
    • Basic project information from your critics
    • Minutes of a meeting CUAdc held with the client in December 2006
    • IDEA's PowerPoint Presentation to the class on 1/12/07
  • Documentation
    • Site plan as a .pdf presentation drawing
    • Site plan as a CAD file 
    • Site Survey
    • Aerial photos of the site, community, and city
    • Cover sheet from SD set listing code analysis of existing building
  • ACSA competition rules we'll be following
• Grading/Evaluation Sheets
  • PreDesign: on January 29.
  • Jury 1: 2/5. PreDesign/Design Concept
    • Critics' Evaluation Sheet
    • Students' Evaluation Sheet
    • List of Required Deliverables
  • Jury 2: 2/23. 50% Set
    • Critics' Evaluation Sheet
    • Students' Evaluation Sheet
    • List of Required Deliverables for both 2/12 and 2/23
  • Jury 3: 3/19. 75% Set
    • List of Required Deliverables
  • Jury 4: 4/16. 90% Set
    • Students' Evaluation Sheet
  • Oral Exams
    • Guidelines 
    • Grading Sheets 
      • 4/18: Concept/Code, Landscape, Accessibility, Sustainability 
      • 4/20: Structure 
      • 4/23: MEP
      • 4/25: Lighting & Detailing (UPDATED on 4/24)
  • Final Jury: 4/27. Bid Set
    • List of Required Deliverables
    • Requirements for construction of large-scale model
    • Schedule and Map showing presentation locations (NEW)
    • Students' Evaluation Sheet
  • Grading Policy

Course description - Architectural Design IV/Comprehensive Building Studio (6 cr.) Studio
Explores the conceptual and technical aspects of architectural form and its assembly. Students will examine building systems, lighting and mechanical, materials, as well as methods and details of assembly. The focus will be the integration of information from other core courses into a comprehensive design project. This course is a co-requisite with Comprehensive Building Design Studio Supplement. Prerequiste: ARCH401.

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