ACH 205 - Advanced Residential Studio

4 credit hours - Three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory weekly; one term.
Explore the principles and elements of designing complex projects in a residential setting. Learn design applications in today’s environment through lecture and studio. Students will hand-draft floor plans, apply AutoCAD skills and create sample boards that are portfolio ready. Lab fee $40.

Prerequisite(s): ACH 106 or permission of department chair. ACH 104 and ACH 105 recommended.

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Design specialized spaces in a residence
- Determine regulatory requirements for specialized spaces
- Assess the human factor impact in the home environment
- Investigate furniture, fixtures, and equipment and their application to specialized spaces
Meet code and project requirements
- Determine and evaluate applicable codes
- Interpret project requirements accurately
- Document discrepancies in program and code requirements
Communicate project design proposals
- Present electronically and graphically completed interior design projects to peers and instructor
- Create professional boards that meet industry standards
- Justify design solutions
Describe factors affecting residential design
- Break down the process of interpreting client needs
- Compile data
- Propose solutions while adhering to construction requirements
Factor in the human ergonomics and accessibility
- Apply universal design and ADA recommendations
- Adhere to accessibility requirements when program criteria specifies
- Implement human ergonomics with aging in place theory
Analyze project criteria
- Analyze program requirements
- Determine program goals
- Prepare solutions meeting project criteria
Interpret design solutions
- Determine viability of design solutions
- Compare results to other possible options
- Assess level of results to fellow students

Core Competencies
Core 1 Communication Core 3 Information Literacy Core 10 Innovative and Critical Thinking