As the capstone design project of the Bachelor of Design in Architecture, this studio supported students to build their core architectural design skills through the development of proposals for an 800-student high school campus. Students were asked to include construction and material choices, building performance, urban response and context, environmental considerations, building services, planning, program organisation, user experience, and formal expression into their proposals, which were developed to a high technical level.
The studio mirrored the design sequence of a professional office through staging design submissions in a design competition schedule. Students progressed from concept design to design development (stage 1), through to the technical development (stage 2).
