Number & Title of Course: ARPL 402/432 and 602/632, Comprehensive Building Design Studio
and Comprehensive Studio Supplement, 6 credits plus 3 credits
Course Description: In these courses students move beyond conceptual and schematic design
and consider the interaction and the integration of the various building assemblies and systems
into one synthetic whole.
Course Goals & Objectives:
Each student is expected to bring the knowledge, skills, and understanding gained from all
previous coursework and experiences to the development of a conceptually coherent,
comprehensive, and integrated architectural design proposal. Studio work will include schematics,
integrating major building systems and sustainable strategies with design at a conceptual level
shown in conceptual drawings of structural, mechanical, passive environmental and lighting
systems; design development, using large scale models and drawings to test initial ideas and the
integration of these ideas; studying materials and details of assembly including vertical surfaces
relative to framing systems, wall sections and details of assembly; and presentation with final
models and drawings of site plan, plans, sections, and elevations.
In addition to the professional standards listed above, students who successfully complete this
course will be able to demonstrate competency in the following areas:
• Understanding of the idea that design continues through to the scale of the detail, that beauty
can be found in the technical systems needed in buildings today, and that sustainable design
informs all stages of the design process.
• Ability to question and innovate on existing means of building design and construction.
• Ability to produce an architecture project informed by a comprehensive program, from
schematic design through the detailed development of programmatic spaces, structural and
environmental systems, life-safety provisions, wall sections and building assemblies, as may be
appropriate; and to assess the completed project with respect to the program’s design criteria.
• Ability to assess, select, configure and detail as an integral part of the design appropriate
combinations of building materials, components and assemblies to satisfy the requirements of the
building program.
• Understanding of the principals, conventions, standard, applications and restrictions pertaining
to the use of construction materials, components and assemblies.
• Ability to assess, select and integrate structural systems, environmental systems, life safety
systems, building envelope systems and building service systems into building design as
described by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) Performance Criteria.
Student Performance Criteria addressed:
Ability:
A.3
Visual Communication Skills
A.5
Investigative Skills
B.2
Accessibility
B.4
Site Design
B.6
Comprehensive Design
Understanding:
A.11
Applied Research
B.7
Financial Considerations
B.9
Structural Systems
B.11
Building Service Systems
C.3
Client Role in Architecture
C.5
Practice Management
C.9
Community and Social Responsibility
A.4
A.7
B.3
B.5
C.1
Technical Documentation
Use of Precedents
Sustainability
Life Safety
Collaboration
B.1
B.8
B.10
B.12
C.4
C.6
Pre-Predesign
Environmental Systems
Building Envelope Systems
Building Materials and Assemblies
Project Management
Leadership
Topical Outline:
Process Step 1 (18%) Predesign Analysis, and Iterative Studies
Conceptual Design
Schematic Design – Architectural Plans, Sections, Elevations
Building the Story
Process Step 3 (28%) 30% Design Development
S/MEP and Life Safety Diagrams
Refining the Narrative
Process Step 4 (22%) 60% Design Development
Understanding Building Envelope
Process Step 5 (23%) 100% Design Development
Assembling Building Envelope
Final Client Presentation
Process Step 2 (9%)
Prerequisites:
Undergraduate: Studios: ARPL401; Mngt/Research: ARPL 221 + 421; Construction: ARPL 333
Environment: ARPL 231, 232 + 331; Structures: ARPL 442
Graduate: Studios: ARPL 601; Mngt/Research: ARPL 521 + 621; Construction: ARPL 633;
Environment: ARPL 531 + 532; Structures: ARPL 541 + 542
Co-Requisites: Undergraduate: ARPL 434 + 442; Graduate: ARPL 634 + 636
Textbooks/Learning Resources:
General
Allen, Edward and Joseph Iano. The Architect’s Studio Companion, 4th edition. New York: John
Wiley & Sons, 2006.
AIA's "Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice", Student Edition.
Pre Design: Regulations
Ching, Francis D. K. Building Codes Illustrated, 3rd edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
International Building Code
International Mechanical Code
International Plumbing Code
NFPA 70: National Electrical Code (NEC)
Pre-Design: Programming
Pena, William M. and Steven A. Parshall, Problem Seeking, 4th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New
York, 2001
White, Edward T. Space Adjacency Analysis: Diagramming Information for Architectural Design.
Architectural Media, Ltd., Tallahassee, 1986.
Site and Urban Design
White, Edward T. Site Analysis: Diagramming Information for Architectural Design. Tallahassee:
Architectural Media, Ltd., 1983.
Harris, Charles W., and Nicholas T. Dines. Time Saver Standards for Landscape Architects, 2nd
Edition. Mcgraw-Hill, 1997.
Lynch, Kevin and Gary Hack. Site Planning, 3rd Edition. MIT Press 1984.
Russ, Thomas H., Site Planning and Design Handbook, 2nd Edition. Mcgraw-Hill, 2009.
Whyte, William H., The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. New York: Project for Public Space,
Inc., 2001.
Formal Design
Semper, Gottfried. Chapter V: “The Four Elements” from The Four Elements of Architecture and
other Writings, translated by Malgrave and Herrmann. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1989.
Etlin, Richard. Chapter 1: “The Architectural System” from Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier:
The Romantic Legacy. New York: Manchester University Press, 1994.
Kolarevic, Branko. Performative Architecture: Beyond Instrumentality. Routledge, 2005.
Prophyrios, Demetri. Chapter 2, “The Anatomy of Buildings” from Sources of Modern Eclecticism;
Studies on Alvar Aalto. London: Academy Editions, 1982.
Lobell, John. “Materials” from Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I.
Kahn. Boston: Shambhala Press, 1985.
Detailing
Ching, Francis D. K. Building Construction Illustrated, 4th edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons,
2008.
Allen, Edward and Patrick Rand. Architectural Detailing, Second edition. New York: John Wiley &
Sons, 2006.
Herzog, Thomas, Roland Krippner, and Werner Land. Façade Construction Manual, 1st edition.
Basel: Birkhauser, 2008.
Ford, Edward R. The Details of Modern Architecture, Volume 1 and 2. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 2003.Wiggins, Glenn. A Manual of Construction Documentation. Watson-Guptill, 1989.
Materials Selection
Beylerian, George M. and Jeffrey J. Osborne, editors. Mondo Materials: Materials and Idea for
the Future, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990.
Deplazes, Andrea. Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures, 2nd edition.
Basel: Birkhäuser, 2008.
CSI's "Project Resource Manual" (http://www.amazon.com/Project-Resource-Manual-PRMPractice/dp/0071370048)
Structural Design
Mainstone, Rowland. Developments in Structural Form. Architectural Press; 2nd edition, 2001.
Moore, Fuller. Understanding Structures. McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 1st edition,
1998.
Environmental Design and Sustainability
Boecker, J., S. Horst, T. Keiter, A. Lau, M. Sheffer, B. Toevs, and B. Reid, The Integrative Design
Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.,
Hoboken, NJ, 2009.
Olgyay, Victor. Design With Climate. Princeton: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1992
Lechner, Norbert. Heating, Cooling, Lighting. New York: John Wiley, 3rd edition, 2008.
Cowan, Henry J. & Peter R. Smith. Environmental Systems. New York: Van Nonstrand Reinhold,
1984.
Brown, G.Z. and Mark DeKay. Sun, Wind and Light. Wiley, 2nd edition, 2000.
Haggard, K., and Colleagues, "A Research Evaluation of a System of Natural Air Conditioning,
California Polytechnic State Univ., San Luis Obispo, CA 1975.
Hay, H. R., and J. I. Yelliott. Construction and Operation of a Naturally Air-conditioned Building.
[Washington, D.C.]: National Technical Information Service, Dept. of Commerce, 1968.
Wells, Malcolm B. Gentle Architecture. Mcgraw-Hill, 1991.
Mazira, Edward, Passive Solar Energy Book, Emmaus, PA: Rodale press, 1979
McDonough, William and Michael Braungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make
Things. North Point Press, 1st edition, 2002.
Wheeler, Stephen M. and Timothy Beatley. The Sustainable Urban Development Reader.
Routledge, 2008. Smith, P.F. (2007) Sustainability at the Cutting Edge. Emerging technologies for
low energy buildings, Oxford: Architectural Press.
Sacred/Cultural Phenomenology
A.D. (Architectural Design) #139. Aspects of Minimal Architecture II (Academy Press 1999)
A.D. (Architectural Design) #110 Aspects of Minimal Architecture (Academy Press 1994)
Benedikt, Michael. For an Architecture of Reality (New York: Lumen Books, 1987)
Campo Baeza, Alberto. The Built Idea (Philadelphia, PA: Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, 2011)
Elgin, Duane. Voluntary Simplicity (New York: William Morrow Co. 1993)
Frampton, Kenneth. Modern architecture: a critical history (London: Thames & Hudson, 2007)
Heidegger, Martin. Poetry, Language, Thought (New York Harper & Row Publishers, 1971)
Gaston Bachelard. The Poetics of Space (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1964)
Holl , Steven. Color Light Time (Lars Müller Publishers 2012)
Holl, Steven. “Archetypal Experiences of Architecture”, A+U: Questions of Perception (1994),
pp.121-135
Kahn, Louis. Conversations with Students (New York: Princeton Arch Press 1998)
Pallasmaa, Juhani The Eyes of the Skin (Chichester, UK: John Wiley, 2005)
Pawson, John (1998) Minimum. London, England: Phaidon Press Ld.
Perez Gomez, Alberto. Built Upon Love (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2006)
Rasmussen S.E. Experiencing Architecture. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 1962)
Ruby I &A., Sachs A., and Ursprung P. Minimal Architecture (New York: Prestel:2003)
Zumthor, Peter. Atmospheres (Berlin: Birkhauser Publishers, 2006)
Zumthor, Peter. Thinking Architecture (Berlin: Birkhauser Publishers. 1998)
Offered (semester and year):
Spring only, annually
Faculty assigned:
Julie Ju-Youn Kim, AIA (F/T)
David Dewane (F/T)
David Shove-Brown, AIA (lecturer)
George Dove, FAIA (lecturer)
Gregory Kearley, AIA (lecturer)
William Jelen, AIA (lecturer)
Tonya Ohnstad, MNAL (lecturer)
Douglas Palladino, AIA (lecturer)
Andrew Cocke
Matthew Geiss, AIA (lecturer)
Raj Parikh (lecturer)
Mark Lawrence, AIA (lecturer)