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What is it and why should I do it?

Architectural Design is designing the spaces we live and work in.

Students will design a sustainable residential house. You will explore the use of sustainable design features, sustainable building materials and sustainable construction methods for different environments. You will also learn how to develop technical drawings that communicate your ideas and concepts, using both hand and digital drawing methods.

Extension topics will allow students to develop interior design concepts and furniture designs for your project.

Visual Communication Design (VCD) focuses on visual language and the role it plays in communicating ideas, solving problems and influencing behaviours. This subject examines how visual communication is used across various fields of practice to design messages, objects, environments and interactive experiences.

Year 10 VCD will prepare you for VCE VCD. The study of VCE VCD seeks to cultivate future-ready designers who have This future-focused course explores the appearance and function of objects, environments, messages, and experiences. Visual Communication Design (VCD) cultivates future-ready designers with a critical and reflective eye, a refined aesthetic sensibility, and who are equipped with the skills, knowledge, and mindsets necessary to address the problems of life. 

In Units 3&4 students write and respond to their own brief. Below are links to the best VCD work from across the state:

• Top Designs 2023
• Top Designs 2022
• Top Designs 2021
• Top Designs 2020

mindset to tackle real-world challenges.

You'll explore how visual language communicates ideas, solves problems, and influences behaviour. Through type and imagery, you'll learn to craft innovative designs tailored to specific audiences and contexts.

Learn more about the design fields and related careers here.

What will I do in class?

You will design respond to 

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You will make design decisions about where your Sustainable House will be located: maybe by the sea, on a cliff top, in the snow, a forest setting or an urban city location. Your chosen location will direct the sustainable design features you will be designing with.

Students will develop an architectural floor plan, side view elevations and perspective drawings for your project. 

Students will also undertake a research investigation on contemporary Australian sustainable architectural practices.

• Apply the visual communication design process to address communication needs
• Generate design ideas, refine concepts and present solutions
• Document, reflect on and annotate your own visual communication design practice
• Analyse and evaluate how and why ideas and information are communicated in visual communications
• Evaluate the way designers across fields of design practice from different cultures, times, places and other contexts communicate ideas and information 

How do I satisfactorily complete this unit?

You must document your design process

while developing the following:

1. Environment (e.g. a café in Princes Park targeted at young adults)
2. Message (e.g. branding for the café)
3. Interactive experience (e.g. an app to support the café’s function)
4. Object (e.g. a chair designed for use within the café)

Which VCE subjects does this subject lead to?

This subject leads directly to VCE Visual Communication Design, however, the subject will help develop skills for all VCE Visual Arts and Design and Technologies subjects.

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