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Specialization Course: Urban Design

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Subject Code: ARC 073
Introduction Course Name: Urban Design Studio
Ar. Joaries T. Lao, UAP Course Description: Design exercises on complex design
problems in real urban settings

Pre-requisite / Co-requisite: Architectural Design 7 and Planning 2

Course Objective:
At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
1. To consolidate lessons learned from prior design and community planning
courses
2. To collaborate with other students in a large-scale and complex project in the
urban area

Sections and Schedules:

◦ COC-FA-ARCH5-01: Monday, 6-7:30 pm
◦ COC-FA-ARCH5-02: Tuesday, 6-7:30 pm
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Periodic Grade: Class Standing (60%) + Major Exam (40%)

Introduction Class Standing: Attendance (10%) + Learner’s Log and Course

Requirements (30%) + Quizzes (20%) + Plates (40%)
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Final Grade: P1 (16%) + P2 (17%) + P3 (17%) + Final Exam (50%)

HOUSERULES
1. Mobile phones must be set to silent mode while the class is on-
going.

2. Notify the instructor if you can’t make it in class prior to the class
schedule or else you will be marked absent.

3. Five (5) accumulative absences and Three (3) consecutive

absences in the entire semester will automatically receive DA
(dropped due to excessive absences).

4. Late submission of LL and CR means score deduction, 1 point

deduction per 30 minutes.
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“Modern Architecture and Urban Design
are so often criticized as inhuman or
repressive.”
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The tragedy of modern design, it seems to us, is that
designers never made a concerted effort to work out
the form implications of their social and political
ideals. Indeed, the very strength of their commitment
to these ideals seems to have led designers to feel
that a concentration on form itself was somehow
superficial.
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Introduction The tragedy of modern design, it seems to us, is that

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designers never made a concerted effort to work out
the form implications of their social and political
ideals. Indeed, the very strength of their commitment
to these ideals seems to have led designers to feel that
a concentration on form itself was somehow
superficial.
Form, they felt, ought to be the by-product of
progressive social and political attitudes
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“Built environment is a
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political system, in its
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own right,”

Politics is the set of activities that

are associated with making
decisions in groups, or other forms
of power relations among
individuals.
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Ar. Joaries T. Lao, UAP Once we understand this, it becomes obvious that
even from the political point of view it is the things
designers do to the built environment that matter.
Ideals are not enough: they have to be linked through
appropriate design ideas to the fabric of the built
environment itself.
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We start from the same idea as that which has
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inspired most socially-conscious designers of the last
hundred years: the idea that the built environment
should provide its users with an essentially
democratic setting, enriching their opportunities by
maximizing the degree of choice available to them.
We call such places RESPONSIVE.
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can and can’t go Opportunities
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Own Stamp Range or

variety of
Uses

Choice of sensory Usage of a place

experiences for different
purposes

Making choices
thru appearance
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This list is not exhaustive, but it covers the key issues
in making places responsive. Our purpose is to show
how these qualities can be achieved in the design of
buildings and outdoor places.
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