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ARCH 121 – DESIGN II
Professors Guido Zuliani, Maria Elena Fanna, Pablo Lorenzo–Eiroa, Caroline O'Donnell, and Thomas Tsang
The second semester of the Second Year Design Studio is centered on the architectural definition of an intervention at small scale resulting from the encounter between the specificity of an urban site and the architectural program.
The activity of the studio is based on the assumption that the design process is in all its phases, a cognitive process, a continuous dialogue between intuitions, intentions and reasoning rather than the application of a prescriptive method.
The encounter between the future inhabitant and the site is at the same time the ground and the content of such a dialogue and architecture is its physical manifestation. For our studio project the choice of site, which was open to the student, was to be informed by the presence of a threshold condition, either physical, imaginary, latent, or virtual and by the idea of program that is the architectural invention of an “urban villa” for two dwellers.
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