WOLDIA UNIVERSITY
Woldia institute of Technology
Department of Architecture
Exit Exam Discussion Points For Basic Architectural Design I & II
Basic Architectural Design I
Competency and Course Objectives
Introduction to Basic Architectural Designs: It gives students
✓ Ability to think three dimensionally, compose small research on Architectural issues,
communicate through drawings, engage imagination, think creatively, read spaces.
✓ The skills on Architectural notation (writing)
✓ The skills of small-scale model making as a tool to study spatial qualities.
Course Contents Introduction
➢ Abstraction
➢ Basic of Form & shape, Transformation
➢ Scale and proportion
➢ Composition: Type of Composition, Ordering principles, spatial organization Study on
spaces, programs, technology in Architectural space production.
• Techniques of creating space.
• Reading Spatial qualities,
• Architectural notation programs (analysis of activities),
• Understanding the impact of technology
❖ 12 units of exercises (on 3 categories of 4 exercises each)
o Space (day dream space, space in between and spatial assemble (urban assemble &
melt down).
– On understanding qualities, creation process of spaces
o Program (program notation, multidimensional zoning, a motion machine and layered
plan).
– On analysis & process of program
o Technology (structure vs structure, envelops).
– On technology & techniques
Basic teaching materials and references
- Zevi, Bruno. Architecture as space
- Tschumi, Bernard 1994. Space and Event Cities
- Fausch, Deborah 1994. Architecture of the Everyday
- D. K Ching, Francis. Space, form and order in Architecture
Bruk Getahun Date: February 27, 2022
WOLDIA UNIVERSITY
Woldia institute of Technology
Department of Architecture
Basic Architectural Design II
Competency and Course Objectives
It gives students:
✓ Understanding of context (urban scale) in Architecture
✓ Experimenting on Architectural project.
✓ Ability to analyze activities & translate them in to Architectural space.
✓ Ability to analyses simple buildings in to their formal, functional & contextual aspects.
✓ Ability to gather information, define problems & negotiate about basic urban issues in
relation to the basic of Architectural space form.
Course Contents Introduction
1. Context in Architecture, urban scale, urban cartography
2. A review on traditional city to modern city.
3. Architectural space qualities, spatial assemblage, eight color material & a study on
selected practices.
4. Two sets of exercises on urban scale experiment and Architectural formation.
Practical exercise: Urban design and Architectural design
Urban strata (urban level)
o Practical exercise-1: Space and program (urban analysis, conceptual development,
motion machine and programing).
o Practical exercise-2: State urban guideline and regulation.
Architectural design level
o Practical exercise-3: Analyzing urban proposal at Architectural level (site analysis,
concept development, program development, special arrangement of spaces).
o Practical exercise-4: Technology (structure vs structure, envelops).
Basic teaching materials and references
- The traditional city, Aldo Rossi: (the Architecture of the city)
- The collage city, Colin rowe and Fred Koeffer(1978)
- Delirous New York, Rem Koolhaas(1978)
- Everyday urbanism, Margaret Crawford(1999)
- The Challenge Of Suburbia, Ilka and Andreas Ruby(2004)
- Contemporary Architecture
Bruk Getahun Date: February 27, 2022
WOLDIA UNIVERSITY
Woldia institute of Technology
Department of Architecture
Model Questions or Discussion Points on I and II
Part 1
1. What is architectural space?
2. How do you read an architectural space? (spatial qualities)
3. How do you form/write/define space?
4. What is the idea of Abstraction? (Concept)
5. What are the basic form and shape transformation techniques?
6. How do you use scale and proportion in architectural projects (form, space and metrics)?
7. How do you study/describe/analyze architectural programs or activities?
8. How does technology (structure, facade, material, mechanism and techniques) affect an
architectural product?
9. What type of Compositions, ordering principles and spatial organization Studies are done
on spaces, programs and technology during Architectural space production?
10. Create an ideal space for “ATHLETE” (professional footballer) and illustrate your design
well with diagrams, sketches, drawings and concept notes.
Part 2
1. What are the urban strata?
2. What is context (urban scale) for architecture?
3. How do you analyze activities and translate them in to space?
4. How do you analyze simple buildings in to their formal, functional & contextual aspects
(architectural critiques and theories).
5. What is site inventory and analysis?
6. How do you gather information, define problems & negotiate about basic urban issues in
relation to the basic of Architectural space formation?
7. Develop urban guideline and regulation?
8. Analyze urban proposal at Architectural level (site analysis, concept development,
program development, special arrangement of spaces)?
9. How do you use technology (structure, facade, material, mechanism and techniques) to
solve problems and architectural related issues?
10. Design a piece of architecture in “ADAGO” round about?
Bruk Getahun Date: February 27, 2022
