Course Description

Degree Project Studio is the capstone of your Bachelor of Architecture degree at the BAC. It is a comprehensive studio, incorporating building systems, structure, materiality, and other realties of construction into your design process, while still emphasizing the importance of context [cultural, social, environmental, historical, etc], and of course, good design. In this two semester project, you will develop your own concept and approach [within a given typology], experimenting with representation and various methods of inquiry in a process-driven, iterative method of developing an architectural project. While you will be given a site and a basic program, the development of that program will be led by, and defined by, you. 

We will engage issues at the scales of the city, the site, the building, the person, and the hand; you will be asked to mine your own creative process, engage in discussions on theory, and participate in dialogue with your fellow students about your own work and theirs. Throughout the semester, you will feel, and engage in, the tension between design and practicality, between theory and practice, between space and systems – so that these no longer operate as opposites within your process, but as equal and valid generators of architecture. Good architecture accommodates structure and systems, but great architecture leverages them.