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TAUBMAN COLLEGE
ARCHITECTURE +
URBAN PLANNING


2023 STUDENT SHOW





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UNDERGRADUATE STUDIO
ARCH 312  -  FALL 2022




COORDINATOR

Jono Sturt



PROFESSORS

Melissa Harris, Yohairo Lomeli, Salam Rida, Mireille Roddier, Torri Smith, Jono Sturt




First in a sequence of four undergraduate studios, UG1 is invested in understanding form, abstraction, and translation as concepts which can yield both discovery and control of architectural logics. Students encounter these frameworks through the most widespread of typologies: the home. Specifically, we begin with built houses.

Houses provide a powerful starting point because, in many ways, they provide the most discrete and condensed example of a complete architectural idea. The shape of a house makes clear an architect’s values, as well as their spatial sensibilities. It defines both the backdrop for its inhabitants’ most intimate moments, and the interface through which they relate to their context, be it cultural, environmental, or political. Likewise, a house can serve as a microcosm of an architectural practice, a set of ideas to be extrapolated further in other programs and typologies.

After familiarizing themselves with their assigned precedent house through replication of drawings and models, students *add a room* to their original, thereby developing a position on how space is apportioned and defined within their particular house. Students further analyze their houses via a series of abstracted models, establishing grounds upon which they engage the fourth and final stage of this process: translation into a new, abstracted set of site conditions.

Faculty each expand the existing program differently in this final phase, deploying the spatial language of the original to new ends.



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