School of
COURSE DESCRIPTION
ARCH 475 – Arch Design & Development
Fall 2006
Professor Robert I. Selby, FAIA
This course is
the fifth architectural design studio for undergraduate students. This
course will emphasize schematic design
and development of a small-scale public building further emphasizing the
integration of the basic elements of building; materials, details, structure,
technology, program, life safety, and universal design.
This studio will be
conducted as a component of the East St. Louis Action Research Project
(ESLARP). For more
information about ESLARP visit: www.eslarp.uiuc.edu.
This studio will focus on an
office building in the Emerson Park Neighborhood of East St. Louis. The scope of work includes programming, site
analysis, code and zoning investigation, schematic design, design
development. Work products will include
maps, drawings, models, and/or digital images, mounted on foam core for public
presentations.
We will go to
We will be involved on Outreach
Weekends which may involve conducting neighborhood such tasks as a neighborhood
condition survey or a “fix-up, clean-up, paint-up” project.
We will return to campus to do
preliminary design of the project
Then we will return to
Schedule of Outreach Weekends in
September 29-30
October 13-14
November 10-11
December 1-2
If you are unable to attend these four field trips you should not
sign up for this studio.
Your studio critic (instructor)
is Robert I. Selby, FAIA. To find out more about Professor Selby see:
www.arch.uiuc.edu/people/faculty/rselby