Arch 556  Graduate Project

Spring 2023

Instructor: Bruce Haglund <bhaglund@uidaho.edu>

Course Requirements

Two products are required—a comprehensive design project and a project report book. The approximate weighting of the components is 66% design project and 33% project book. You cannot earn a passing grade without submitting a book. This course aims to meet the NAAB Student Criteria, especially SC.5 Design Synthesis See pages 3-4 of NAAB's 2020 Conditions https://www.naab.org/wp-content/uploads/2020-NAAB-Conditions-for-Accreditation.pdf for details.

Carbon Neutral Design. Our department has voted unanimously to adopt the Architecture 2010 Imperative. It demands that for each studio project "the design engage the environment in a way that dramatically reduces or eliminates the need for fossil fuel." With that in mind, your presentation and book should show evidence of carbon emission reduction--both embodied and operational carbon.

Comprehensive Design Project. It takes at least "seventeen" drawings to describe a comprehensive project. The level of detail required is greatest for a small project, while the larger projects should demonstrate greater breadth. The final project should demonstrate the full range of skills and issues developed during your architectural education. The final critique will be scheduled as a one-hour session for each student with a panel of outside critics selected by graduate project faculty. Faculty and visiting architecture practitioners will be assigned to your critique, but you may also invite guest critics of your choice...clients, uncle architect, Renzo Piano, etc. During the semester four interim critiques are scheduled. Three of these are progress reviews attended by your committee members. Participation in each of these is mandatory. The other critique, the midterm critique, will serve as a "dress rehearsal" for your final critique, where graduate project faculty will invite a panel of outside critics.

Project Report Book. The project book should fully describe the research, rationale, program, process, and design solution for your project. The materials developed in Arch 510 provide the basis of this book, but are not in themselves sufficient. The book should be well-written and comprehensive. The design solution should be described in both words and graphics. Both your presentation (PowerPoint or PDF) and your Book (PDF) must be turned in by Monday of finals week.

Support Resources. Each student has an individual Mural in the ARCH556Haglund folder to use when needed for sharing info with peers, critters, and the course instructor. You all have been invited to the 2023GraduateProject folder on Google Drive where you must turn in your final presentation and your final Project Report book.

Desk Critique Groups

Each group will get a scheduled desk crit every week during the term, including a midterm, and a final. 

Schedule   Desk Crits per Groups Above

Bruce will be happy to critique anyone on any day after the scheduled crits (about 5:30pm)!