Presentation
No TitleArchetypal Design Constructs in Early Design Studios: How to Explore and Expose Beginning Design Students to the Unseen in Architecture
Ball State University
(2022)
Abstract
Archetypal Design Constructs in Early Design Studios: How to Explore and Expose Beginning Design Students to the Unseen in Architecture
Arsenio Rodrigues, Bowling Green State University
William Batson, Prairie View A&M University
Design projects introduced in the beginning design studios often tend to be controlled by formal modalities of composition – form, space, order. Likewise, the generation of physical forms in the beginning design studios appear to be associated with varying levels of creativity, innovation, context, and craft-composition. Such design-informing parameters introduced in the studio environment remain fragmented and may be unclear to beginning design students. Further, random ‘ideas’ or ‘concepts’ incorporated by beginning design students typically remain ‘un-founded’ and ‘un-resolved’ in relation to the idea of place-making. Such (random) design-informing concepts have little to do with a deeper phenomenological understanding of timeless design values in architecture.
Consequently, one could posit the question - What meaning does the term ‘Concept’ bare to students in the early stages of their architectural education? Are concepts, in fact essential to the design process for beginning design students - do blatant-latent ‘conceptual underpinnings’ have the potential to inform the design process and product, and if so, to what extent. Within this context, how may creativity be addressed in design studios, such that the formal rules of composition remain based, not on pre-conceived random concepts, but rather grounded in a deeper and more thorough phenomenological understanding of place – where beginning design students are exposed and engaged in the thinking and making of architecture that is ‘extraordinary’ and outside the realm of the mundane?
This paper addresses these and other issues related with a deeper understanding of the ‘making of place’ in early design studios. An investigation of fundamental place-making principles at the blatant and latent levels are explored by beginning design students and a qualitative analysis of the “Unseen in Architecture” as design constructs in the design process are explored and presented as outcomes.
Keywords
- Beginning Architecture student,
- latent,
- blatent,
- design process,
- unseen architecture
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring April 2, 2022
Location
Muncie IN
Citation Information
William Batson and Arsenio Rodrigues. "No TitleArchetypal Design Constructs in Early Design Studios: How to Explore and Expose Beginning Design Students to the Unseen in Architecture" Ball State University (2022) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/william-batson/20/
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