Regenerative Architecture Lab

From the M.Arch Curriculum: The first semester of the M.Arch sequence introduces fundamental concepts of architectural design and representation, including preliminary notions of site, program, and context. Emphasis is on interpretive, analytical, and generative uses of drawing, physical modeling, and digital media in the design process.
*The conceptual framework and syllabus of this course incorporate content from prior studios developed by the M.Arch studio faculty for a continued set of shared and evolving pedagogical aims and structure.

This studio investigates worlds bounded by enclosures at various scales, with an emphasis on exploring legible relationships between beings and their environments. Skin is considered as a fundamental constructed interface between worlds, as a threshold and as a responsive. Form is considered to be malleable, soft, and adaptable. Together skins and forms define enclosures that have interiors and exteriors, with thickness and porosity. They are systems that address complexly intertwined programmatic and functional relationships. Tectonic organizations give structure to skin and form. Exploring how defined enclosures both materialize architecturally and adapt to varying environments, students will investigate their potential for a re-organization of program, circulation, structure, social relationships, and spaces of inhabitation.