Architectural Design Studio 1B
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ABEE1003 | Architecture and Built Environment | 1 | 30 | Spring UK |
- Code
- ABEE1003
- School
- Architecture and Built Environment
- Level
- 1
- Credits
- 30
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
For the description of the studio approach, emphasis and set up please refer to the summary of content for ABEE1002.
Developing on from the work in the first semester Architectural Design Studio 1A, this module continues to develop the students’ skills in orthographic drawing, model making and the visual representation of their ideas and designs, whilst further developing their abilities in architectural design process, design development and resolution. This module tests the students ability, knowledge and understanding through the Comprehensive Design Project (CDP). In the CDP, students are asked to design a medium sized building for a ‘community’ (opposed to the ‘individual’ focus of ABEE1002), such that they are required to address some complexity in the differentiation between public and private spaces. A portfolio of design development, iterative process, including sketchbook, and final design proposals is submitted at the end of the semester.
If a student fails both this module and ABEE1002 at the first attempt, they will be required to pass both modules by resitting them in attendance before progressing to the next stage of the K100 BArch (Hons) Architecture programme or the K230 MEng (Hons) Architecture and Environmental Design programme (as applicable)
Target Students
BArch (Hons) Architecture (K100)MEng (Hons) Architecture and Environmental Design (K230)
Co-requisites
Modules you must take in the same academic year, or have taken in a previous year, to enrol in this module:
Assessment
- 100% Coursework 1: Portfolio of design development activities, including models, drawings and sketchbook work, design resolution drawings and models, and ‘final design’ drawings and models that communicate the ‘final design’ to others.
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
To extend students skills and approaches to architectural design at a basic level, culminating in the design of a medium sized building for a chosen client on a given site.To extend students skills and approaches to design investigation and a development, and in so doing, present opportunity for the students to fulfil in part the Architects' Registration Board (ARB) Prescription of qualifications: ARB Criteria at Part 1, specifically the General Criteria (GC) at Part 1, for students participating in the BArch K100 course.For the students to demonstrate the ability to create architectural designs that satisfy both aesthetic and technical requirements, as well as starting the process of learning to prepare and present building design projects of a modest scale, complexity, and type in a given context, using a range of media, and in response to a brief (GA1.1)For students to start the process of demonstrating the ability to apply a range of communication methods and media to present design proposals clearly and effectively (GA1.2).For the students to have the ability to evaluate evidence, arguments and assumptions in order to make and present sound judgments within a structured discourse relating to architectural culture, theory and design (GA1.4)To fulfil in part the Architects' Registration Board (ARB) Prescription of qualifications: ARB Criteria at Part 1, specifically the General Criteria (GC) at Part 1, for students participating in the BArch K100 course.Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module, students will:
Demonstrate the ability to create medium-sized architectural designs, that present clear challenges in terms of client (content) and site (context), that satisfy both aesthetic and technical requirements, as well as starting the process of learning to prepare and present building design projects of a modest scale, complexity, and type in a given context, using a range of media, and in response to a brief (GC1.1, GC 1.3)
Demonstrate the understanding of relationship between people and buildings, within an urban setting, and the need to relate buildings and the spaces between them to human needs and scale and to demonstrate an understanding the way in which buildings fit into their local context (GC 5.1, GC 5.3)
Demonstrate an understanding of the need to investigate and review precedents relevant to the function and organization strategy of the design proposals (GC7.1)