Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Architecture and Smart Urban Design StudioLab
2. Language of Instruction:
Vietnamese
3. Course Code:
ARC512029
4. Credits:
6
5. Course Objectives:
This course aims to design sites in a smart and sustainable way, thereby contributing to the overall development of a smart city. Various smart city elements will be introduced and encouraged to be integrated in the design processes. Two stages constituting the compositional arrangement of the site design include site survey and analysis, synthesis and conceptualization, and design ideation phases in relationship with the development.
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
This course is an intermediate scale in between architectural design and urban design will be focused, studio type class for physical site design. The site design is the design process of the surrounding environment of a new development project such as a building, group of buildings or a large complex. It refers to the design, and in some cases, the planning of the exterior physical environments around the main architecture, including the design of landscape, open spaces, connectivity, accessibility, spatial connection and transportation connection, topography, morphology, livability, programs, etc. It involves the considerations of site context, site mapping and analysis, land use zoning, infrastructure, access and circulation, natural and cultural and social environments, local identity, sense of place and genius loci, participatory place making, and other sustainability and livability factors in relationship with the development.