Course title
S04220003
Exercise in Architectural Studio 4A

 NISHIZAWA Taira

OKANO Michiko

TAKAHASHI Manami
Middle-level Diploma Policy (mDP)
Program / Major mDP Goals
Department of Architecture 4. 4．建築設計や建築技術に関する体系的な専門知識を身につけ、それらを応用することができる
Department of Architecture 5. 5．豊富な教養と専門知識を統合、駆使して、種々の制約条件や解決するべき課題を整理・分析し、合理的な方法によって建築をデザインすることができる
Purpose of class
to design middle-rise buildings. (Office building)
Course description
”Studio 4” is an exercise for students to design middle-rise buildings, to be continued from the low-rise buildings at ”Studio 3” in the previous semester. In ”Studio 4A” students will design Office building for 7 weeks, which is ”semi-public facility, in RC or S construction, with 4000m2 in total floor area, of 4-7 stories”. Every week students will make presentation of own scheme at the time, and will be checked by tutor face to face, in order to learn how to develop the scheme from early stage to the final stage, while learning the each skill necessary to make study-drawings, to study-models, to percept the detail and the whole of the space, to adjust the inter and outside requirement, and so on.
Goals and objectives
  1. to be able to design the middle-rise buildings; Office building, Students hall.
  2. to be able to develop the scheme at any phase, such as concept-making, volume-study, finding solution in plan and section integrating the structure and the machinary
  3. to be able to show the space in ones thought by diagram, drawing, volume model and words.
  4. to be able to develop the skill of drawing, models, spatial recognition, ando so on.
  5. to be able to criticize the buildings in the past with same program
Relationship between 'Goals and Objectives' and 'Course Outcomes'

 weekly works(at esquisse1-6)) final work(at final jury) Total.
1. 10% 15% 25%
2. 10% 15% 25%
3. 10% 15% 25%
4. 5% 7% 12%
5. 5% 8% 13%
Total. 40% 60% -
Evaluation method and criteria
the score consists of the process and the results; weekly works at esquisse 1-6（40%）and the final work at jury（60%）.
the credit is given to the score more than 60 points.
one who couldn’t complete every work will get the score less than 60 points.
Language
Japanese
Class schedule

 Class schedule HW assignments (Including preparation and review of the class.) Amount of Time Required
1. guidance ; Office building
visiting the site
making model of the site with surroundings
making the sketches of the first scheme. 		making model of the site with surroundings
researching office buildings with similar scale 		140minutes
2. esquisse 1 ;
volume model
block plan
zoning section 		study and develop the scheme 140minutes
3. esquisse 2 ;
volume model
block plan
zoning section
zoning plan
※ visiting an office building if corona-vies is safety 		study and develop the scheme 140minutes
4. esquisse 3 ;
volume model
block plan
zoning section
zoning plan 		study and develop the scheme 140minutes
5. esquisse 4 ;
precise model
precise section
all floor plan
elevation（perimeter design） 		study and develop the scheme 140minutes
6. esquisse 5 ;
precise model
precise section
all floor plan
elevation（perimeter design）
inside perspective 		study and develop the scheme 140minutes
7. final presentation and jury 140minutes
Total. - - 980minutes
Feedback on exams, assignments, etc.
ways of feedback specific contents about "Other"
Feedback in the class
Textbooks and reference materials
monograph of Le Corbusier
monograph of Mies vd Rohe
Prerequisites
to read the monograph of Le Corbusier
to read the monograph of Mies vd Rohe
to visit the Office building and Hall building in 20th century
Office hours and How to contact professors for questions
  • after the class（appointment is necessary）
Regionally-oriented
Regionally-oriented course
Development of social and professional independence
  • Course that cultivates an ability for utilizing knowledge
  • Course that cultivates a basic problem-solving skills
  • Course that cultivates a basic interpersonal skills
Active-learning course
Most classes are interactive
Course by professor with work experience
Work experience Work experience and relevance to the course content if applicable
Applicable Tutors are the active architects with working-experience as the real-building designer.
So every students’ works will be reviewed and criticized under the normal standards in the architects offices today.
Education related SDGs:the Sustainable Development Goals
  • 9.INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
  • 11.SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
  • 12.RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION
  • 14.LIFE BELOW WATER
  • 15.LIFE ON LAND
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