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AR30019: Design studio 3.1

[Page last updated: 18 October 2021]

Academic Year: 2021/2
Owning Department/School: Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering
Credits: 18 [equivalent to 36 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 360
Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Coursework (CW 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Aims:

To help each student develop a clear conceptual and intellectual position as part of the architectural design process.

To explore and analyse a given urban and cultural context as part of the design process.

To increase the degree of project complexity in preparation for 4th year.

To develop collaborate working skills through a joint design project.

To exploit the international ERASMUS profile of the year and the opportunities this provides to exchange diverse cultural backgrounds and experiences.



Learning Outcomes: Demonstration of the ability to:
  • develop a given brief and meet its requirements;
  • prepare a coherent architectural design for a medium rise new building;
  • devise and employ a clear ordering system within a design proposal which integrates organisational, spatial, environmental and structural requirements;
  • prepare a building proposal which addresses a specific urban realm in cultural and physical terms;
  • work as part of a team;

The demonstration of an awareness of how the built environment is really experienced by its users.



Skills: Increased ability to communicate information both verbally and graphically, using a diverse range of media and model-making techniques.

Content: The Semester will include a short joint project with Engineering students in order to develop designs to a given brief. The projects during the Semester will run parallel to the AR30093 Urban Studies and AR30341 History and Theory and will be use as a vehicle for the course work assessment of this unit.

Programme availability:

AR30019 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering
  • UEAR-ANB08 : BSc(Hons) Architecture with Thin sandwich placement(s) (Year 3)

Notes:

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