Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering, Unit Catalogue 2011/12 |
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 Credits:
| 18 |
| Level:
| Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: * To develop creative collaborative working between architects and engineers. * To explore the impact of both structural and environmental engineering on the form and functioning of a building. * To experience the interaction of architecture and engineering through a realistic design project. * To understand how each discipline contributes creatively to the production of a building. Learning Outcomes: The ability to produce and present collaboratively a coherent and sophisticated design solution which integrates knowledge of: * structural and environmental strategies * issues related to energy use, material use and sustainability Each project must demonstrate an awareness and understanding of how the processes of construction inform design. Each project must demonstrate the ability to devise a coherent design proposal which meets the requirements of a given brief. Each student must demonstrate the ability to: * work as part of a team * reflect upon, and relate their ideas to, a design and to the work of others * listen, and critically respond to, the views of others Within this project the student is required to demonstrate an ability to record, manage and appraise their own working practices. Skills: The project will require the teams of students to produce proposals to a given brief which clearly demonstrates the integration of structural and environmental criteria, paying specific attention to energy and sustainability issues which should be apparent in the design solution. Content: A design project known as the Basil Spence Project, run since 1978. It is undertaken by architectural and engineering students and based on a highly prescriptive brief which integrates structural and environmental criteria and pays specific attention to energy and sustainability issues. Teams are required to design and detail a building of moderate complexity and understand the inherent its structural, constructional and environmental qualities. Specialist lectures are provided to cover particular subjects. The final part of the semester requires students to undertake a comprehensive study of the chosen locality for the second semester project including various aspects of its cultural and physical context. |
| Programme availability: |
AR30021 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering
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