Exchange program with MARHI(a)

Course title

5M896000

,9M458000

	NISHIZAWA Taira
	KAIHOH Kei

Course content

An exchange program with MARKHI, Moscow Institute of Architecture (State academy) in Russia, based on the MOU between SIT. Program (a) , a receiving year, is held in Japan, and Program (b), a sending year, is held in Russia.
In each program students spend aprx.4 weeks to design an urban facility with team-members. Each team consists of the same number of Russian and Japanese members, and collaborates by adjusting different thoughts, estimations and cultural background, so as to experience what's going to be happened in case of an international design projects.
Official language is English. Final results are to be the same level as graduation work in master course.

Purpose of class

To be able to design architecture with international common sense.
To be able to explain architectural thoughts by foreign language.
To be able to contribute to the team design by showing individual design.

Goals and objectives

To be able to design architecture with international common sense.
To be able to explain architectural thoughts by foreign language.
To be able to contribute to the team design by showing individual design.

Language

English

Class schedule

	Class schedule	HW assignments (Including preparation and review of the class.)	Amount of Time Required
1．	study and visit some urban area and architectural pieces（tokyo）	making the model of the site	140minutes
2．	study and visit some urban area and architectural pieces（kyoto, osaka）	sketch, note	140minutes
3．	theme for design	esquisse 1	140minutes
4．	visit and analysis the site	esquisse 2	140minutes
5．	presentation 1 （writing the program、making the sketch and models1/500）	esquisse 3	140minutes
6．	presentation 2 （re-programming, re-making the models, zoning plan1/500 and section1/500）	esquisse 4	140minutes
7．	presentation 3 （plan1/500, section1/500, modei1/500）	esquisse 5	140minutes
8．	mid-jury	esquisse 6	140minutes
9．	presentation 4 （plan1/200, section1/200, modei1/200）	esquisse 7	140minutes
10．	presentation 5 （plan1/200, section1/200, modei1/200）	esquisse 8	140minutes
11．	presentation 6 （plan1/200, section1/200, modei1/200, several perspective, detail drawing 1/50）	esquisse 9	140minutes
12．	presentation 7 （plan1/200, section1/200, modei1/200, several perspective, detail drawing 1/50）	esquisse 10	140minutes
13．	presentation 8 （plan1/200, section1/200, modei1/200, several perspective, detail drawing 1/50, presentation sheets）	esquisse 11	140minutes
14．	final jury	editing the portfolio	10minutes
Total.	-	-	1830minutes

Relationship between 'Goals and Objectives' and 'Course Outcomes'

	presentation1-3（mainly individual works）	mid-jury（mainly group work）	presentation4-8（mainly individual works）	final jury（group work）	Total.
1.	4%	12%	4%	20%	40%
2.	4%	12%	4%	20%	40%
3.	2%	6%	2%	10%	20%
4.					0%
Total.	10%	30%	10%	50%	-

Evaluation method and criteria

Each presentations with mid and final jury will be estimated under the above ratio.
perfect score is 100, and the score more than 60 is worthy of getting a credit.
One, who can reach the "Goals and objectives 1-3" if receiving the advices from tutor, is the score 60.

Textbooks and reference materials

"Taira NISHIZAWA 1994-2004" （TOTO publish co.ltd）
"Taira NISHIZAWA 2004-2010, Wooden Works" （LIXI publish co.ltd）

Prerequisites

to read the above monograph

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