AR20517: Design studio 2
[Page last updated: 23 October 2023]
| Academic Year: | 2023/24 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering |
| Credits: | 20 [equivalent to 40 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 400 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
|
| Assessment Summary: | CWRI 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
|
| Supplementary Assessment: |
|
| Requisites: | |
| Learning Outcomes: |
By the end of the Unit, you will be able to:
1. meet the requirements of a given brief 2. analyse context to inform their designs 3. communicate clearly through a design report, using appropriate means and conventions of architectural representations; providing a statement of design intent and recording the design process 4. apply the principles of designing optimum visual, thermal and acoustic environments 5. apply your understanding of the structural design process, building assembly and construction 6. explain the impact of buildings on the environment, and the relevant precepts of sustainable design in terms of low carbon design, rainwater management, material, energy, and societal well-being. |
| Synopsis: | You will complete three design projects during this unit.
Project 1 (formative) introduces ideas of physical context, and you will work in groups to analyse in detail, a number of village or urban sites. Project 2 (formative) is an individual design project focussing on a single cell space and its environmental conditions. Project 3 (summative) is an individual design project located on one of the sites analysed in project 1. It will be a small multi-cell non-domestic building over 2 storeys. |
| Content: | Project 1 requires students (in small teams) to analyse a given context, including an understanding of local climate, site acoustics, topography and landscape.
Project 2 is a short individual project, involving the design of a single cell space, with a detailed analysis of passive heating and cooling, ventilation, indoor air quality, passive solar design and day-lighting design. Simplified daylighting and thermal modelling tools are used. Project 3 is an individual design of multi-cell buildings of medium complexity requiring non-domestic construction, placed on one of the sites analysed in Project 1. This project requires students to employ basic principles of architectural composition, and understand the impact of buildings on people, context, environment, and precepts of sustainable design. Environmental and structural design strategies are to be integral to the whole design process. Formal lectures on environmental design will include systems for environmental comfort, building form and fabric, acoustics, modelling techniques for buildings' energy consumption, renewable energy technologies and life cycle assessment. Relevant UN SDGs and RIBA Sustainable Outcomes are examined. A parallel series of lectures will be given on construction, the assembly process and materiality that analyses how decisions are made on appropriate construction methods. Sustainable methods in materials efficiency, operations and maintenance optimisation, and waste reduction in construction are also introduced, and applied to Project 3. Studio 2.1 Projects will generally be based in a large city or town outside of Bath. |
| Course availability: |
AR20517 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering
|
Notes:
|