SECTION 5: Environmental Design Course Descriptions-2000 Level

Course Code	EVDS 2100  Credits 3
Title	Urban Media Lab
Description	An introduction to visual methods of representation and related media including drawing, photography and video. The intention is to critically engage the urban and suburban contexts as a laboratory for investigating cultural values, aesthetic issues, design principles, and representational techniques, 'prerequisite' to undertaking design studio work.

Course Code	EVDS 2200  Credits 3
Title	Ecology and Design
Description	An examination of principles of Ecology and Design works in which these tenets are considered, engaged, and/or demonstrated. Topics fundamental to the science of Ecology will theoretically structure the course content. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the forces and systems working within and between natural, social and human environments.

Course Code	EVDS 2300  Credits 3
Title	Materials, Structures and Assemblies
Description	This course provides an introduction to applied statics, construction materials and construction system assemblies for landscape, building, and interior constructions. Construction material properties and applications, including impacts on resource depletion and on sustainable building practices will be introduced along with basic strategies and methods to analyze and calculate forces in simple structures.

Course Code	EVDS 2400  Credits 3
Title	Visual Media 1
Description	An introduction to technical and free-hand drawing processes and techniques, and in various media - to develop, to express, and to communicate design intentions. The focus will be directed to abstract and concrete methods of representation. Emphasis will be placed on the integral relationship between thinking, drawing, and making in relation to critically observing the world at large, and in relation to design studio work.

Course Code	EVDS 2500  Credits 6
Title	Design Studio 1
Description	Introduction to the elements and principles of visual and spatial design, design process and techniques, requisite methods of representation and communication, and design intentions. Studio work will explore different ways of space and form-making, beginning at the site of the body, in both abstract and environmental contexts.

Course Code	EVDS 2600  Credits 3
Title	Tectonic Precedent
Description	An examination of seminal built works of environmental design, at a range of scales, from the 19th and 20th centuries, with an emphasis on examples that are representative of diverse positions of key issues in contemporary design practice. Methodologically, this course endeavours to critically evaluate the relationships between perception, intention, and making through the exploration of the material and tectonic nature of the work(s).

Course Code	EVDS 2610  Credits 3
Title	Theory of Design 3 (Human Behaviour and the Built Environment)
Description	(Human Behavior and the Built Environment) Cr.Hrs.3 (Formerly 079.261) An introduction to human behavior and its interrelationship with the design and shaping of the built environment; the relationship of language, culture and environmental cues to human behavior. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

Course Code	EVDS 2620  Credits 3
Title	Theory of Design 4 (Tectonic Precedent)
Description	(Formerly 079.262) An examination of built works of environmental design from the 19th and 20th Centuries, with emphasis on examples that are representative of diverse positions on key issues in design practice.

Course Code	EVDS 2630  Credits 5
Title	Design Studio 3
Description	(Formerly 079.263) Introduction to discipline-based design problems ranging in scale from townscape design to the design of private domestic environments. Studio work includes the investigation, analysis, programming and design synthesis of a multitude of factors into buildable forms that balance pragmatic requirements with poetic intentions. Prerequisite: EVDS 1640 (or 079.164).

Course Code	EVDS 2640  Credits 5
Title	Design Studio 4
Description	(Formerly 079.264) Continuation of Design Studio 3 with discipline-based design problems at the scale of the room and of the small, free-standing building. Emphasis is placed on the understanding and resolution of architectonic issues, and on the detailed design of exterior and interior environments, both public and private. Studio work will encourage the development of design process and the application of theory. Prerequisite: EVDS 2630 (or 079.263).

Course Code	EVDS 2650  Credits 3
Title	Communications and Information Technology 2
Description	(Formerly 079.265) Skill building in visual communication and information technology. Continues development of traditional and electronic communications and graphic skills. Alternate weeks will be devoted to rotating workshops offering freehand, mechanical and computer communication skills. This course normally commences with approximately 50 contact hours of workshop comprising intensive skill building sessions. NOTE: A field work fee applies and students should check the fee schedule for the amount.

Course Code	EVDS 2670  Credits 3
Title	Environmental Controls
Description	(Formerly 079.267) The course introduces principles and methodologies associated with acoustics, natural and artificial lighting in environmental design. These principles are examined within the context of appropriate case studies, laboratory assignments and studio projects. Prerequisite: EVDS 2660 (or 079.266) or EVDS 1700 (or 079.170).

Course Code	EVDS 2690  Credits 3
Title	Design Since 1800
Description	(Formerly 079.269) An examination of key architectural treatises of the 19th and 20th centuries that are representative of the predominant ideals of their time and the influence they have had in the construction of the built environment. Pre-requisite EVDS 1670 (or 079.167)

Course Code	EVDS 2700  Credits 3
Title	Construction Materials and Assemblies 3
Description	(Formerly 079.270) An examination of structural and construction systems applied in a variety of building and site conditions. Introduction of the principles associated with foundation system selection and design. Masonry, timber framing structural systems and basic principles of building enclosure are reviewed through lectures, laboratory assignments and design studio projects. Prerequisite: EVDS 1700 (or 079.170)

Course Code	EVDS 2702  Credits 3
Title	Natural and Human Systems
Description	An application of the scientific principles embodied in the natural laws which govern environmental design. Aspects of the bio-physical factors, energy, human physiology and perception, comfort, and resource management are reviewed in the context of substainable planning and design practices.

Course Code	EVDS 2800  Credits 3
Title	Visual Media 2
Description	This course bridges technical and freehand drawing introduced in Visual Media 1, with computer/digital media. This course advances contemporary digital media in relation to emerging modes of 2, 3, and 4 dimensional modes of representation, in the context of design studio work, and in relation to graphic standards associated with professional design practice.

Course Code	EVDS 2900  Credits 6
Title	Design Studio 2
Description	An exploration of the fundamental relationships between space, form and order in the context of the built environment, from body to place. Pedagogical emphasis will be directed towards design process, cultural intentions, and environmental accountability.