The course offers the opportunity to develop a physical and aesthetic understanding of the environment that surrounds us; it includes principles of spatial organisation, experience with site analysis, meeting the needs of a client brief and developing creative solutions; students are introduced to a number of skills and learn elements of design based drawing, free drawing and how to make models in a variety of styles as well as being tutored in the virtual world of visual graphics where design ideas can be shown as rendered 3D images and as spatial animations.