Subject Code & Name: BS25105 – Studio I - Basic Design Studio
Regulation: R-2025
Semester: I (First Semester)
Branch: B. Des. (BDes)
Credits / L-T-P: 5 Credits | L-T-P: 0-0-10
Course Objectives
- To give an understanding of design as creating form towards a purpose at various scales.
- To enable exploration of the universal visual, experiential and cognitive aspects of design through engaging elements and principles of form.
- To give an insight into the ways in which form/morphology and use/effect can come together.
Full Unit-wise Syllabus
Design as Morphology and Fundamentals of Form
Architecture as a discipline starts with morphology as the answer to questions and needs of human society. While the needs are multifarious, including shelter and comfort, social and psychological well-being, culture and meaning, expression of time and context, etc., the means are negotiated through the fundamentals of form in its various attributes. In the foundational studio, the exploration would be on understanding these fundamentals as universals as well as in terms of particular manifestations in specific cultural and temporal contexts. The word form here means all physical manifested aspects.
Types of Explorations in the Foundational Studio
The explorations in the foundational studio would be of two types. One would be to understand and break down form to its component elements and principles in order to get insight into the most important aspects that give a totality of cognitive effect (perceptive, behavioural, cultural etc.) or use (anthropometrics, activities, scale, etc.). Design exploration would continue after this to create a form for use/effect. Another would be to explore component elements like point, line, planes, volume, shape, colour, texture, light, pattern, etc., using principles such as balance, unity, dominance, transparency, proportion, scale, solid, void, fluidity, movement, fractal, order, chaos, gestalt, etc. This exploration could be an end in itself or could lead to the creation of a higher level of or composite form/design through using elements and principles in conjunction towards human need/use (perceptive, behavioural, cultural, anthropometrics, activities, scale, etc.).
Studio Conduct and Design Exercises
The whole studio would be conducted through a series of related design exercises with multiple stages as well as standalone independent exercises. Observational/analytical study and design exploration could go hand in hand or one could precede the other, based on the specific project. The exercises would be mediated through situations and contexts, historic and contemporary references, local or global character, aesthetics, basics of human response and behaviour, etc. Different media would be explored in 2D and 3D. The final exercise(s) would be focussed towards small product/furniture/architectural design/component design in urban context, etc.
Course Outcomes (COs)
- CO1: Basic understanding of design elements and the ability to recognise form and its purpose.
- CO2: Knowledge of principles of form, morphology, and human-centered design aspects.
- CO3: Awareness of design contexts and the ability to design simple forms responding to human needs.
Assessment Pattern (Quick Note)
- Weightage: Continuous Internal Assessment 50% | End Semester Examinations 50%
- Internal methodology: Three Assessments with equal weightage (approx. 33.33% each). Each assessment shall incorporate continuous marking of the work and performance during the particular assessment period.
Source: Official Anna University – B. Des. R-2025 Syllabus
Last Updated: September 2026
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