Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering, Unit Catalogue 2006/07

AR20018 Design studio 2.2

Credits: 15

Level: Intermediate

Semester: 2

Assessment: CW100

Requisites:

Aims: To introduce a more detailed and complex building brief through study of a particular building type, (e.g. art gallery), in the context of its landscape and local settlement. Experience of the process of design from initial conception to the actual site and context, through an individual building design. This project also requires students to design larger, more specific interior and exterior spaces, and gives them experience of the physical environment within and around buildings.
Learning Outcomes:
On completion the student must demonstrate the ability integrate spatial, environmental, constructional, and structural principles in a coherent building design proposal which meets a given brief.
Skills:
Research, analysis, proposals in sketch and models, drawn and verbal presentation, related to a specific building scheme.
Content:
Although of limited complexity, the building will require the planning of a number of different sized, interrelated spaces, at least one requiring a medium span structure.
The building will be low-rise.
The site will be non-urban but include some built context.
Precedent studies of chosen building type.
Visits to examples of building type.
Site analysis.
Planning within specified floor areas to provide different types of space, volume etc.
Design of external space (square, courtyard, wider landscape) associated with the building.

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