This unit is designed to equip students with a range of tools for the communication of built environment projects. Students are expected to explore a range of communication techniques including:

- freehand illustration/hand-sketching and its use for analyses and/or explorations
- drafting - the fundamentals of orthographic drawing, three-dimensional projections, technical drawing standards and conventions, collage, and modelling techniques to aid the communication of design ideas
- digital - the use of the computer as a tool to aid communication of design ideas
- model-making - an introduction to various techniques of three-dimensional representation and exploration
- presentation - the ability to present work verbally and clearly articulate project ambitions to a range of audiences, as well as understand the implications of different types of representation in the communication of built environment projects, and
-multimedia communication strategies - the ability to strategically curate and orchestrate different types of representation techniques as a cohesive set of documents.

The representation skills acquired in this unit are fundamental tools for the communication of the design projects developed for core unit BE: Analysis Studio.

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Use and develop analog drawing/sketching methods to explore and represent ideas;
2. Use digital drawing tools to represent projects in a built environment context;
3. Apply techniques of model-making as a device for the communication of ideas;
4. Build and present verbally and visually a Communication Strategy as a cohesive and carefully curated set of documents; and
5. Apply and orchestrate different design communication techniques and to position them within a broader disciplinary and historical context.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
2. UC graduates are global citizens - make creative use of technology in their learning and professional lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - evaluate and adopt new technology

Skills development

This unit celebrates pre-digital modes of representation, and equips students with an understanding of, and the skills to, produce two fundamental languages in architectural communication: drawing, and modelling.

Students will learn the linetype and lineweight conventions of the orthographic drawing set (plan, section, and elevation), and will explore this understanding in weekly workshops and assignments. Along with these essential two-dimensional representations, students are introduced to three-dimensional representations, in the form of the plan-oblique drawing, and the sectional model.

In addition to acquiring a fundamental understanding of drawing conventions, students will be exposed to how certain types of orthographic drawings foreground distinct architectural qualities, and simultaneously, what certain orthographic drawings might hide about a project. From weekly lectures featuring examples from modern and post-modern architects, students will begin to understand that acts of analogue architectural representation are highly curated and selective pursuits, and that certain drawing and modelling types are fundamentally linked to different architectural concepts and approaches.

The representation skills acquired in workshops, and the knowledge of various examples of drawing and model-making from lectures, are fundamental tools for the BE: analysis studio, and other design studios going forward in this degree.

Prerequisites

None.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.