Environment-Behavior Research and Design Studio
Professor:
Kathryn Anthony, Ph.D.
Office: 412 Architecture
Office Hours: to be announced
Phone: 244-5520 (voice mail)
E-mail: kanthony@uiuc.edu
Credit: 6 hours
Class meets: MWF 1:30 - 5:50pm
Room: 301 TBH
In this design studio architecture students conducted two projects emphasizing environment and behavior, i.e. user needs research and its translation into design. This course fulfilled criteria #7, human behavior, specified by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). Teams of two to three students worked on both research and design. Teams were switched at mid-semester. The studio was conducted in four phases:
Phase 1, Weeks 1-4:
Project #1 Preliminary Design and User-Needs Research
Phase 2, Weeks 5-8: Project #1 Design
Phase 3, Weeks 9-11: Project #2 Preliminary Design and User-Needs Research
Phase 4, Weeks 12-15: Project #2 Design
Both projects have real-world, local clients who are interested in receiving
design ideas generated from this studio.
Project #1 is a hypothetical project that has sparked discussion on our UIUC campus. It concerns a proposal to develop a building to house the Women's Studies Program into a new facility to be shared with the Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Asian American Studies Program, and the Latina/o Studies Program. The new such building is intended to raise the campus profile of these interdisciplinary units and to make tangible the university's commitment to diversity. This shared space would help address problems of diversity within the programs themselves, such as increasing participation by women students of color in the current Women's Studies Program. The proximity of diverse students and various program events would facilitate multi-cultural dialogues and curricular collaboration such as team-teaching. Our clients were Kal Alston, Director, and Jacque Kahn, Associate Director of the Women's Studies Program; Sundiata Cha-Jua, Director of the Afro-American Studies and Research Program; Louis DeSipio, Director of the Latino/a Studies Program; and George Yu, Director of the Asian American Studies Program. Representatives from these four programs gave us guided tours of their facilities and participated in our design reviews.
Project #2 is an expansion of the Center for Women in Transition in Champaign,
IL. Our client wasKathy Sims, Director of the Center for Women in Transition.
She and/or her staff gave us a guided tour of her facility and participated
in our design reviews.
Design reviews were conducted in an innovative manner, allowing greater
participation and learning from the evaluation process.
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Last updated 4/30/02
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
College of Fine and Applied Arts
School of Architecture