Course schedule

Week 01 Warm up, experimental writing and diagram to define the architecture surrounding us, define the meaning of Positive and Negative Architecture.

Week 02 Continue the research and definition on Positive and negative Architecture.

Week 03 Design your own Negative Architecture, based on the system defined by yourself. The project site will be given by the instructor

Week 04 site analysis, program analysis, using the logical model you developed from the previous weeks.

Week 05 sketches, diagrams and models for the project, design critique.

Week 06 sketches, diagrams and models for the project, design critique.

Week 07 sketches, diagrams and models for the project, design critique.

Week 08 Mid-term review

Week 09 Design progress, model and renderings. Design critique.

Week 10 Design progress, model and renderings. Design critique.

Week 11 Design progress, model and renderings. Design critique.

Week 12 Design progress, model and renderings. Design critique.

Week 13 Design progress, model and renderings. Design critique.

Week 14 Final week for the design project, Students will be required to present their final work. But this is not the end yet.

Week 15 Flesh back: re-think what positive and negative architecture is. Use your own project as example

Week 16 summarize the progress of the whole semester, including both your own project and your classmate’s projects as a whole, and let’s return to where we started: what is the meaning of Positive and Negative Architecture.