Architecture & Product Design (Y10)

Ākonga come up with a range of creative design ideas based around a given brief. They will learn visual communication skills and techniques, such as drawing, drafting, 3D modelling and 3D rendering. This enables students to discover how to give form and expression to their ideas.

Ākonga will experiment, develop, respond to feedback, and reflect on their design thinking to improve and refine the product and spatial design ideas that they create. This course will encompass ideation, exploration, progression, and communication of design ideas into potential outcomes within the areas of spatial and product design.

This course prepares ākonga for Design and Visual Communication at NCEA Level 1 and leads pathways at university level in the areas of construction, engineering, interior design, landscape design, architecture, and urban planning.