The 1st semester, the Architecture topic will introduce you to develop a project for a single-family house on a given site. You will take an existing house and develop it through regulation compliance to the detailing of building elements. You will execute, independently and in collaboration with others, a design process through the appropriate work-stages using authoring digital model and sketches.

By meeting the objectives of this topic you will have gained knowledge and understanding of:
• the architectural idea of a building concept
• general ideas concerning sustainability.
• interpreting a brief
• understanding the basic communication to the client and stakeholders
• basic site analysis, space organization, functional analysis and workspace planning.
• project development and practice iterative strategies
• principles behind proportion
• basic drawing principles for architectural drawing in scale and detailing in accordance with the related phases
• basic detail levels for architectural drawings and documentations
• evaluate your proposals with regulation compliance making qualified standard construction, key junctions and coordinated decisions for a single unit.
A student who has met the objectives of the semester will be able to:
• Use of the project stages model
• Draw techniques both digital and manually
• Use functional diagrams as a means of communication regarding single-family houses.
• Utilize principles behind drawing sets for different phases in the design stage
• utilise the requirements of the building regulations
• Utilize site forces and environmental criteria in the design of a building
• Produce a quality assured layout design prior to technical design.