The fourth core studio aims to develop students’ understanding of building design through the coordination, negotiation, and feedback of multiple constituents and consultants . The integration of site, structure, mechanical systems, envelope, and material are key to the development of the work . The organization of the semester works to give an understanding of how critical input from a host of expertise serves the design process . The students work alongside engineers, material specialists, and other consultants to gain new insight into building and construction constraints, processes, and opportunities . The projects, sited in urban contexts, are 35,000 square foot buildings which engage with the 600 studio wide theme of the Public Commons - a term used for shared, equitable access of all communities to natural resources such as air, oceans and wildlife as well as to social creations such as libraries, public spaces, technology and scientific research.
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