The course objectives are:

- to develop critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills in the sense of connecting basic design knowledge to planning studies

-to foster spatial observation, its organization and presentation through graphic models via manual and computer-aided methods; to stimulate exploration

- to support brainstorming, group work, and thinking with concepts in the face of complex problems and physically represent them on 2D and 3D mediums

- to prompt abilities of perceiving and representing space, to strengthen hand and mind coordination both individually and in groups

- to be able to document and develop course content and own-projects in the form of notetaking, free-hand drawing and logbooks.