This advanced level undergraduate studio focuses on conceptual and/or design/build topics at the intersection of architecture with other disciplines.Traditional disciplinary divisions have prevented a comprehensive approach to the design of dwelling environments because most of the components are conceived independently and are bound by outdated traditions. In order to shake loose from a stale status quo of pro forma homes, our students will take an integrative approach, incorporating design-thinking and processes from Architecture, Interior Design, Industrial Design, Furniture Design, and Fine Arts. These approaches will be used to design the entirety of a prototype residential interior around the needs, desires, and bodies of an imagined set of users.Our approach will embrace the ideas and thinking of each practice. Architecture may give us spatial organization, structure, and concept; Interior Design provides affect, materiality, lighting, color; Industrial Design addresses ergonomics, experience, interaction, enhancement, usability, and feel; Furniture Design helps us think about fabrication, beauty, touch, and finish; finally, the Fine Arts, of painting, installations, and sculpture guides us beyond function toward themes, aspirations, moods, and ideas.These fields offer a rich array of source material. Students will be required to identify precedents from multiple sources. They will analyze these, and synthesize their ideas into a coherent vision for their design proposals.

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