Architectural Design-IV detailed Syllabus for B Architecture ARCH, 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information do visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all the other VTU 4th Sem Syllabus for B.Arch 2018 Scheme, do visit B.Arch 4th Sem 2018 Scheme. The detailed Syllabus for architectural design-iv is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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OUTLINE:
- Continuing on the discussion on ‘sense of place’; we move on to further differentiation of space to idea of making a space for dwelling. We address the difference between making a ‘house’ for people, from making a ‘dwelling’ for them? It is necessary then to enquire into what is the nature of a dwelling, what it needs, and whom it includes and involves, and how places and spaces in a dwelling are different from other places and spaces.
- We need to enquire into what one needs to support the act of dwelling and the transitions in space and scale that lead one to the dwelling.
- To understand the needs of sharing land, spaces inside and outside dwellings, common places, common interests like security, economy, services, belonging and identity. Concepts of varying types of needs for privacy in the dwelling, and the transitions from the public realm to it.
- To understand the basic reasons for grouping dwellings together. Enquiry into some types and typologies of unifying dwellings: clusters, terraces, linear/ row formations, block formations, semi-detached, and detached, to name a few.
- To understand the nature of dwellings in organic and planned communities, and to enquire into what the changes are, and how they came about.
- Suggested site size: From 1500 – 3000 sqm to allow for a deeper study rather than repetition of typical configuration.
MODE OF STUDY:
Three component approach to the Design Studio: A) TRAVEL FOR SITE VISITS: Learning from visiting various settings: urban and rural, traditional, contemporary, permanent and temporary, to introduce them first hand to students. B) SEMINARS: Seminars are intended to expose the students to a range of real issues that are integral to their understanding of house-form. These should lead students to explore different approaches to house-form. C) DESIGN TASKS: Emphasis in teaching and learning is placed on bridging the gap between the imaginative and conceptual, the material and formal. Projects should involve activities that encourage students to develop techniques for identifying and negotiating competing demands and prioritizing and ordering variables. An essential part of the studio process should be peer reviews and reviews by practicing architects.
Assignment-1: SITE VISITS
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Assignment-2: SEMINARS
- To understand the architect as the facilitator: the architect’s role in the process of building a dwelling community.
- To understand some issues related to group housing/dwelling or settlements like basic services[lighting, ventilation & water supply] and building regulation.
- To explore the character of community spaces and their significance in housing projects[points of discussion could include different ways of occupying land: rentals, ownership, temporary squatting, organic settlements, informal urban settlements].
Suggested topics:
- Indigenous building technologies, Post Independence Housing: Otto Koenigsberger.
- Studying housing projects in India [Laurie Baker, BV Doshi, Charles Correa, MN Ashish Ganju, Raj Rewal, Shilpa Sindoor, Revathi Kamath] and other contemporary housing projects from around the world.
Assignment-3: PROJECTS
One major project and one minor/time assignment to be tackled in the semester. Project work could be done in the following four stages of activity interspersed with seminars.
- Introduction to the initial design parameters which include choice of:
- Geography/situation (context),
- Understanding the dwellers, their lifestyle, and social context,
- Exploring ways in which dwellers come together to live in a small community.
- Explore issues of community, public and private realms, edge conditions, communication and connectedness.
- Enquire into individual and family/user group needs and aspirations.
- The emphasis in the studio has to be on inclusion and integration of differences in age, gender, mobility, health, economic status. In today’s world, there is a need to make buildings equitable to all at the outset, and we should begin with our dwellings.
- Suggested plot size: From 1500 – 3000 sqm
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