Parti development and structure are developed in synthesis, relative to a clear understanding of type, model and context. Issues of spatial definition are explored relative to the choice and articulation of structure. Building typology is examined in its dependence upon structural rationality. Spring semester Studio broadens the elaboration of the 'model' through in-depth application of contextual analysis to an urban region, and the proposition of an intervention which responds to and extends the potential of that context. Analysis is complemented by reassembly through synthesis, driven by design as the means of configurating the speculative propositions derived.
Students develop a narrative which integrates research, analysis, concept and design proposals.
It is in this setting that computer-aided application is introduced in the manipulation of information. Graphic depiction is a central activity of the Studio and physical models are required to test the implications of virtual manipulations in cyberspace, to engage the hand analogically and design objects in tangible space. Through the continuity of scales achieved in this integrated view of program definition and proposition, true heuristic connections are sought in the increasingly specific development of details.