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ARCH9002: Urban Design Studio: Urban Project
2025 unit information
Design studios are the heart of the urban design program. Values, knowledge and skills acquired in other units and from previous experience are supplemented and enhanced, and applied creatively to both the investigation and development phases of design projects at an urban scale. Urban Design Studio: Urban Project is concerned with the design development for a local urban project that explores how a specific design intervention can be a catalyst to broader urban change. Projects are carefully chosen to explore complex local urban sites or groups of sites and to generate proposals for public and private building types, streets, spaces and transport infrastructure that are rigourously informed by design methodologies. Implementation through staging, development controls and guidelines will also be addressed. Inter-disciplinary group work is an essential part of the studio and integrates the broad range of backgrounds and skills of the students while mimicing the reality of practice. The central aim of this unit is to develop illustrative, writing and verbal skills which will enable students to carry out urban design projects such as the preparation of frameworks, master plans and public domain concepts in a professional manner. Students will be expected to demonstrate appropriate problem recognition, investigative, analytical, interpretative, design and presentation skills and abilities on projects of local urban scale. Assessment may also embrace abilities to prepare and interpret project briefs, program proposals and work in groups.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Urban and Regional Planning and Policy |
| Credit points | 12 |
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Prerequisites:
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ARCH9100 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Methodically investigate, understand and communicate key physical and social characteristics of the existing and planned urban context, and summarise the opportunities and constraints to inform an urban design proposal.
- LO2. Synthesise analysis findings and design investigations into design objectives and principles to guide and evaluate qualitative and quantitative performance of design propositions.
- LO3. Develop an appreciation of First Nations people and apply cultural awareness and knowledge of Country to projects.
- LO4. Demonstrate a basic understanding of movement networks and the implications for connectivity, street design and development density.
- LO5. Demonstrate an ability to design and document three-dimensional urban form, public spaces, building envelopes and building types across scales from the precinct to the lot.
- LO6. Demonstrate the role of comparative analysis and the use of good precedents in defining and explaining urban design.
- LO7. Recognise the basic processes of land development, subdivision, and forms of tenure and ownership and their implications for urban design.
- LO8. Use appropriate visual and verbal communications to present a well-argued design proposition for a specific stakeholder audience.
- LO9. Demonstrate ability to apply an urban design methodology to deliver a coordinated and synthesised group proposition across the term.
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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