Courses.

The Computational Design degree begins with computational foundations, develops through applied systems, and concludes with independent graduation research.

Degree: Bachelor of Design
Specialisation: Computational Design, available as a major or minor
Length: 3 years
Study load: 96 UOC

Foundations

Year 1

Term 1

FADA1010Design Collaboration Studio 1
CODE1110Computational Design: Technologies, Concepts and Cases

Term 2

BENV1012Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication
CODE1161Design Computing

Term 3

CODE1240Computational Design 1 (Building)
CODE1231Urban Computing

Flexible studyTwo Free Elective or Optional Minor courses across the year

Application

Year 2

Term 1

CODE2121Computational Design 2 (Structure)
CODE2250Robotic Computing

Term 2

CODE2132Computational Design 3 (Urban)
CODE1210Future Cities: Technologies, People & Design

Term 3

CODE2120Computational Design 4 (System)
CODE2170Building Information Modelling

Flexible studyTwo Free Elective or Optional Minor courses across the year

Integration

Year 3

Term 1

CODE3234Computational Design 5 (Data)
CODE3100Digital Collaboration

Term 2

CODE3201Graduation Project: Theory
CODE3202Graduation Project Practice

Flexible studyTwo Free Electives or Optional Minor courses and two General Education courses

UNSW Handbook

Year 1

Computational foundations

Introduction to coding, parametric modelling, digital fabrication and urban data.

Year 2

Applied computational systems

Application of computation across structures, cities, systems, robotics and BIM.

Year 3

Independent research and practice

Advanced work in data, collaboration and independent graduation research.

Graduation research.

Final-year projects are presented through the annual CoDe Conference.

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