Bachelor's of Architecture

STUDIO III

General Data

Code: 86U870
Type of credits: ECTS
Number of credits: 10.00
Engagement hours: 300.00
ISCED-F: Architecture and town planning
Status: Mandatory
Academic Year: 3º
Term: 1º
Modality: Presential
Languages: English
Available for Mobility Students: Yes
Restricted to alliance: No

Coordination

Description

The aim of the course is to achieve a critical attitude in the understanding of public buildings and space. Students create a comprehensive author's architectural design of a more demanding public building, which includes user requirements, specific conditions of the space, basic technical and legal frameworks, and achieves a developed architectural expression.

Subject area

Architecture – Architectural Design Studio, Public Buildings, Hybrid Typologies, Sustainability, Digital Tools

Requirements

Basic knowledge in architectural design required.

Instructors

TOMAŽ EBENŠPANGER

Contents

The course focuses on public buildings and examines their future and role in the built environment by presenting new spatial formulas, programmatic articulations, structural and material expressions. Special emphasis is placed on sustainability and critical use of digital tools.

The course explores hybrid typologies, density and diversity, and the interaction between cultural/commercial, individual/collective, and private/public domains. Students test spatial solutions such as hybrid structures, social condensers, and flexible prototypes.

Project process:

  • Introductory phase: analysis of space, determination of urban components, context analysis
  • Central phase: project development based on project assignment; research into the shape of public buildings
  • Final phase: concretisation and presentation of the project solution

Final project deliverables: written explanation, explanatory diagrams and architectural drawings, situation plan M 1:500, floor plans/sections/facades M 1:200, typical facade section M 1:20, 3D model, A3 folder and 70x100cm poster.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding:

  • Identify four basic groups of criteria that define good architecture
  • Explain the division of labour and the role of the architect in interdisciplinary planning
  • Develop and design a consistent architectural part of a complex building project
  • Evaluate own project and compare it with others
  • Accept architectural planning as personal interest and social engagement

Transferable/key skills:

  • Accomplish a comprehensive project in a limited time
  • Use representative techniques on a real case: written description, 2D drawing, 3D rendering, model making
  • Clear, structured, professional oral and graphic presentation and argumentation of own work

Recommended Readings and Tools

Readings:

  • Frampton, K. (2007). Modern Architecture: A Critical History (4th ed.). Thames & Hudson.
  • Venturi, R. (2016). Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (2nd ed.). MoMA.
  • Pallasmaa, J. (2007). Oči kože: arhitektura in čuti. Studia humanitatis.
  • De Bono, E. (2021). Lateralno razmišljanje. UMNA.
  • Detail: Zeitschrift für Architektur + Baudetail.

Planned Activities

Individual studio work accompanied by lectures and site visits. Individual presentation of initial ideas, working versions and final projects, discussed by other seminar participants.

Course structure:

  • Lectures: 30 hours
  • Seminars: 45 hours
  • Tutorial: 75 hours
  • Individual work: 150 hours
  • Total: 300 hours

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Assessment weights:

  • Project: 80%
  • Oral presentation: 10%
  • In-class participation: 10%

Additional information:

Ongoing assessment through seminar paper work and oral seminar presentation.