Architecture 3

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Identifying key underlying design concepts and be able to effectively communicate the unique design characteristics of your project.
• Identifying interesting and appropriate ideas to drive your project.
• Choose modes of representation that are appropriate to your design work.
• Develop an initial idea into the final proposal.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Use digital and manual modelling to appropriately explore your project.
• Provide and record supporting design information within an organised sketchbook or Appendix.
• Resolve a project to a suitable level of clarity and technical understanding. So that a synthesis is apparent between the building function, structure, materials, environment and the user experience.
• Develop a design proposal that is in the realm of the possible and shows an awareness of structure, materiality, the nature of the environment, human abilities, basic human needs and the scale of the programme.
• Use drawings and models communicate your work clearly and concisely.
• Observation & Analysis - Gather appropriate data, including site data, and analyse it so that it is relevant to your project.
• Successfully locate a project on a site and develop a design to a point where it is represented at 1:100 or 1:50 in plan, section and elevation.

• The design processes involved in the effective realisation of a building design.
• Functional building arrangements that relate to current statutory regulation.
• The development of designs that relate to our time, their context, and a speculative/ adaptive future.
• The relationship between structure, material, light and space (the creation of forms that exceed purely functional solutions).
• Construction cost and design value.
• Physical modeling to develop and test design proposals.
• Computer modeling to develop and test design proposals.
• Graphical representation and drawing convention to effectively communicate design considerations and proposals at each stage of the design process.

Teaching and learning methods

This module is delivered through a combination of the following:

1. Individual and group tutorials for the discussion of design concepts and the resolution of detailed design.

2. Presentations for the review and discussion of design proposals with a range of building design related professionals.

3. A field trip to gain a direct understanding of the proposed project site.

This module seeks to provide a working environment and processes akin to a professional design office.

The teaching pattern is summarised below.

Semester 1

• 1 x 3hr Project Briefing session. (week 1)
• 1 x 3hr Field Trip (week 1 or 2, subject to timetabling)
• 1 x 3hr Group Tutorial. Focusing on the overall design/ site investigations and strategy. (week 2)
• 1 x 3hr Interim Design Review. Focusing on the overall design/ site investigations and strategy. (week 3)
• 1 x 3hr Group Tutorial. Focusing on the site ground model and foundation design concepts. (week 6 or 7, subject to timetabling)
• 1 x 30min Tutorial. Focusing on structural design concepts. (week 6 or 7, subject to timetabling)
• 1 x 3hr Interim Design Review (week 10)
• 8 x 30min Tutorials (individual) (weeks, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 & 15)

Semester 2

• 1 x 30min Technical Review (week 1(18))
• 1 x 3hr Interim Design Review (week 7(24))
• 1 x 3hr Final Presentation (week 12(33))
• 9 x 30min Tutorials (individual) (weeks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 & 11))

Ad-hoc tutorials in addition to those listed above may be available to suit the progression of individual projects.

Tutorials supporting key structural engineering aspects will be linked to overall design progression and offered in addition to those listed above.

Student led learning:

Students are encouraged to take greater control of their own learning experience by:

• Undertaking group and individual research.
• Close Integration with other Year 3 and 4 students
• Attending intermediate and final presentations of project work by other year groups.
• Recording and reflecting on the development of their work.

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Other resource. Data books and software manuals are available for all of the taught software packages. Online tutorials are also available. Specific texts and references will be recommended according to the design brief set each year and according to a student’s specific area of interest and investigation. Students are expected to draw upon knowledge gained throughout the course with specific focus applied to resources listed within the Part 1 and 2 design, structure and geotechnical related modules.

Software requirements. Adobe Creative Suite - Available via the Design Studio machines. Data books and software manuals are available for all of the taught software packages. Online tutorials are also available.

Software requirements. Structural simulation software, such as LUSAS. Data books and software manuals are available for all of the taught software packages. Online tutorials are also available

Teaching space, layout and equipment required.. Design Studios Workshops Computing facilities Specialist engineering facilities such as the Heavy Structures Laboratory subject to focus of student project.

Software requirements. Autodesk AutoCAD, Revit, and Inventor. Students are provided with self-paced introductory training in Year 1 and provided with a licenced student version for home use. Data books and software manuals are available for all of the taught software packages. Online tutorials are also available

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal