Studio Build approaches architectural issues through the role of building technology in architectural design. The studio focuses on materials, techniques, and tectonics studies that expose and inform design opportunities and solutions. The central question to ask is what relationships can be established between space, structure, technology, and users, and how they can be intertwined and synthesized. The studio’s emphasis is placed on experimentation through the act of making as a way of discovering architectural design. The studio regards ‘building’ as an important impetus for shaping architecture and encourages the act of ‘making’ as design inquiry. Through the design project, students will learn to build by working with real material and different tools for specific tasks of design and making. The studio activities will engage students in observing, questioning, experimenting, composing, constructing, and synthesizing multi-scale parts to the whole of a building. The observation and experimentation with materials and tools will allow students to reveal the inner working of material characteristics, ways of compositing materials and joining, assembling layers of a building, and understanding the connection to the contexts and the users that a building is produced. Furthermore, the environmental context of the project requires the technical ingenuity of building construction to address environmental sustainability. The main project of the studio asks students to design a building for learning dance (dance school) in Hong Kong through ideas of building. The in-depth study should focus on; 1) building materials with the availability, environmental impacts, spatial effects, and craftmanship, 2) structural and constructional challenges to compose dance studio spaces with the materials, 3) a suitable envelope design to reconciliate indoor and outdoor environmental demands for the users, and 4) key construction details that assure functional performances and establish aesthetics of the building. What user experiences can the building technologies bring in a design of a building? Your design should answer by providing how.