Abstract

The architecture program at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California, has a strong technology component (as part of the Polytechnic Mission of the University) over the years since its inception in the 1960’s, that led to the establishment of the College of Architecture andEnvironmental Design. The paper presents an advanced structural integration collaboratory model that works with recent changes in the curriculum. The history of the program is important, since the curriculum has always had a very intensive architectural engineering (structural systems focus) sequence of courses. While architecture students were definitely acquiring a strong knowledge of a wide range of building structures regarding history, materials, theory and calculations, there was limited opportunity for synthesis of the acquired knowledge, and exploring the application into the holistic approaches for a building design project.

Six years ago, in response to faculty concerns of architecture students having limited experiences in the five-year curriculum on the creative application and synthesis of the vast knowledge of structural systems into building design projects, a strategy for teaching the capstone structures course in the design studio was developed, changing the standalone lecture course and moving this content into architecture design studio with a focus on the building design project.

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Architecture

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