Timber eye
Architectural Design V • Mid Rise CLT Office
USC Architecture • Instructor: Mario Cipresso • Fall 2019
Studio Goal:
The goal of the Arch500a is the development of critically and disciplinary relevant comprehensive building designs. Contemporary architecture is a volatile amalgam of an ever increasing complexity of building systems, wide ranges of building components and materials re-combined with a growing array and variety of analog and digital design tools by architects and their countless consultants in response to the unpredictable demands by clients, communities, politicians and critics. Against this backdrop, architecture appears to be an ever elusive and as Rem Koolhaas calls it chaotic adventure. Embarking on this adventure, the studio probes the role of the architect in the critical production of architecture by a sustained oscillation between urban dimensions and the smallest scale of details in the design of a project.
Aiming to identify the new realism of architecture, the students become productive and critical participants in the contemporary debate, by acquiring and demonstrating abilities and awareness primarily in areas of structural design, materiality, envelope design and critical thinking, as well as in site response, environmental systems, accessibility, life safety, and sustainability. A studio wide project framework for a vertical structure allows instructors delve into the depth of the common agenda of heavy timber and mass timber with their studio sections, while at the same time enabling a cross-sectional discussion within the studio.
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