This Unit is around the forming of spatial ideas in response to a problem of inhabitation. The scope is to enable learning about Architecture through a design process which focuses on reflective thinking about precedents and creative making to generate an architecture project at a concept level. In this Unit, students conceive of "The suburban house as a private dwelling and as the generator of collective space." The core of their design problem is the idea that a basic set of architecture type-forms have been successfully and permanently accommodating human inhabitation in time.
What does the term "type" mean in Architecture? How does a form-type morph from location to location, from time to time? What is their relationship with diverse places and cultures? How do people experience, shape, occupy and share them? How is it possible to reinterpret these traditional formal patterns to produce sustainable Architecture today?
