Architectural Design-III Syllabus for VTU BE/B.Tech Architecture Engineering third sem complete syllabus covered here. This will help you understand complete curriculum along with details such as exam marks and duration. The details are as follows.
15ARC 3.1–ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN-III
CONTACT PERIODS: 9(Studio) per week
VIVA MARKS: 150
PROGRESSIVE MARKS: 150
OBJECTIVE: To enable students to understand the processes involved in the transformation of space into place.
OUTLINE: The student after having familiarized with aspects like space, light, movement, scale and structure involved in formulating and articulation of spaces relating to health (Clinic), food (Restaurant), services (Bank, Post Office) and education (Primary / Nursery School) in the 2nd semester, needs to move on to tackle larger issues in 3rd Semester. The third Semester work relates to transforming “Space” into “Place”. The factors influencing this process like context, site, surroundings etc will have to be considered. Further, techniques of reading cultural and physical meaning leading to the built environment assume
importance.
COURSE OF STUDY – Placemaking as an architectural goal
KEYWORDS – Need, function, activity and place
Mode of study: Place (i) Permanent (full time), (ii) Temporary (seasonal/periodic) (iii) Transient (few hours, days) Elements promoting sense of “place” – colors, textures, shapes and forms, materials (e.g.: tents), enclosures (fences, walls, roofs, etc.), nodes (trees/platforms etc.), anthropometry and role of sensory aspects like sound, light, smell, texture etc. in creating “memory” of space
FIRST ASSIGNMENT – 3 weeks
SECOND ASSIGNMENT – 3 weeks
Contextual configuration of above factors affecting “DESIGN” – one of the following:
• Exhibition pavilions (Open, partially covered)
• Museums (open air, partially covered)
• Yatri Niwas/Youth camp/youth hostel etc.
• Rural/urban weekly shandy /market (part open, partly enclosed) etc.
COURSE OF STUDY – To explore the meaning of built environment through physical and cultural contexts and techniques to read them.
KEYWORDS – Techniques, layered, comparative, historical, location, size, networks, visual layer, perception (scale, forms etc.), functional.
Mode of study:
- Techniques – layered, comparative, historical
- Physical layer – location, networks, size, hierarchy, temporal functions
- Perception: Density, volume, crowding, conflicting/conforming aspects
- Visual layer: scale, contrast, forms and spaces and their hierarchy
- Functional: core and auxiliary, formal/informal, incidental/intentional
THIRD ASSIGNMENT – 6 weeks
- A small/medium size resort/hotel in a given context e.g.: Nandi hills, Srirangapatna, Hampi etc.
- Residential facility cum training center in a slum.
- Museum (enclosed) in Belur, Banavasi, Udupi, Pattadakkal, Gokarna etc.
- Nature cure/Health resort in Coorg/Chikamagalur, Dandeli etc.
- Application of one particular technique (preferably layered technique for its comprehensiveness).
- Analysis and ensuing strategy for the CONTEXT to be an outcome of physical and cultural parameters through the chosen technique. Any ONE of the suggested topics to be attempted.
COURSE OUTCOME
At the end of the third semester, the student through EXPOSURE and ANALYSIS is capable of converting SPACE into PLACE through functions and elements, converting and extending place into built environment through organizational factors contextually and finally enhance and carry to end the idea “contextualise”, culturally and physically to enable one to READ the context.
SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME – 4 th Semester
This exposure would help the student in the next semester to create a context e.g.: Housing / neighbourhood etc. using the ‘MULTILAYERED” and SCALED UP approach to tackle several parameters simultaneously.
REFERENCES:
- De Chiara and Callender, Times Saver Standards for Building Types, McGraw-Hill Company, 1980
- Neufert Architect’s Data, Rudolf Herg, Crosby Lockwood and sons Ltd, 1970
For all other BE/B.Tech 3rd Sem Subject syllabus do follow VTU 3rd Sem BE / B.Tech Syllabus CBCS (2015-16) Scheme for Architecture Group.
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