48-408 Co-designing an Indigenous Biodiversity Knowledge Learning Space for the Vertica

12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This is an advanced comprehensive Critical Practice track studio, with one large, complex, semesterlong building design project. The studio pedagogy is based on the parallel development of a real project currently being planned, a new performance space for the San Francisco Symphony it is on the same site and with the same goals and constraints as the actual project. The participation of clients, the professional design team working on these projects, and users is incorporated in the studio exploration and design process, culminating in review presentations to the client and project team and publication of the body of work. This studio is also a key component of Carnegie Mellon Universitys Theater Architecture Program, and is offered annually to fourth and fifthyear students in the Bachelor of Architecture program. The coRequisite, Theater Architecture Seminar 48408, provides indepth research in the typology, analysis of precedents, and the programming and planning of the studio project.

Prerequisites: none listed

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