Architectural Design Studio 3A
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ABEE3050 | Architecture and Built Environment | 3 | 30 | Full Year UK |
- Code
- ABEE3050
- School
- Architecture and Built Environment
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 30
- Semesters
- Full Year UK
Summary
The design studio focuses on practical architectural design skills, developing the craft of architecture, its communication and the student's individual judgement of the relevance of the wider physical, social, cultural, economic, technical and environmental context of the profession, demonstrated in the design project and facilitated through the introduction of the individual project brief. This brief encourages the student to show their own individual ability to translate the understanding and engagement with the wider context of architecture into an architectural/spatial format.
The studio is set up in a vertical structure of between 10 -12 units teaching approx 30 students each, made up of year 2, 3 and 4 students.
The units are organised into 5 thematic Streams, addressing the diversity of architectural approaches according to the ARB/RIBA criteria as follows;
1.0 Urban Initiations
2.0 Design + Make
3.0 Cultural Contexts
4.0 Poetic Narratives
5.0 Communities
This module year is structured as three distinctive projects, which are thematically connected but are clearly identified as individual project submissions.
Project 1 concerns itself with site and context.
Project 2 focuses on the design of a small unit/space, its structural stability and its physical expression through construction and materials.
Project 3 is the Briefing Document that should lead and build from P1 & P2.
Target Students
BArch (Hons) Architecture
Assessment
- 20% Coursework 1: P1: Design studio project - group work.
- 60% Coursework 2: P2: Design studio project - individual work.
- 20% Coursework 3: P3: Briefing document - individual work.
Assessed in both autumn & spring semest
Educational Aims
This studio-based module aims to develop students' skills & approaches to architectural design to a more advanced & complete level. Students are expected to show evidence of their ability to investigate site, develop a discrete design project and produce a briefing document in preparation for the Spring Semester thesis design project that is the subject of a separate Spring Semester module .This module aims to achieve the following General Attributes of the ARB/RIBA Criteria:Students will have the ability to generate design proposals using understanding of a body of knowledge, some at the current boundaries of professional practice & the academic discipline of architecture. (GA1.1)Students will have the ability to apply a range of communication methods & media to present design proposals clearly & effectively. (GA1.2)Students will have the understanding of the alternative materials, processes & techniques that apply to architectural design & building construction. (GA1.3)Students will have the ability to evaluate evidence, arguments & assumptions in order to make & present sound judgments within a structured discourse relating to architectural culture, theory & design. (GA1.4)And also to fulfil in part the Architects' Registration Board (ARB) Prescription of qualifications: ARB Criteria at Parts 1, 2 & 3, specifically the General Criteria (GC) at Part 1, for students participating in BArch K100.Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module the student will demonstrate the following;
1.0 An ability to design projects of various scales and complexity, which are responding, emphasizing and developing the thematic study aspect described in each project's brief. (GC1.1)
2.0 An understanding of the relevance and relationship between site, users' needs and the project's local and cultural context and how their building design responds to a brief describing and defining these aspects. (GC5.1) (GC5.3) (GC7. 2)
3.0 An understanding of the relevance of concepts of architectural theory and the fine arts to achieve a comprehensive and relatively complex architectural design project. (GC2.3) (GC3.3)
4.0 An ability to use a range of media including techniques of the fine arts to communicate the project's design, intentions and specific qualities appropriately and clearly. (GC1.1) (GC3.3)
5.0 An ability to develop the conceptual design idea into an aesthetic and comprehensive architectural design project through the application and integration of knowledge of principles of construction and structural systems. (GC1.2) (GC8.2)
6.0 The understanding of environmental principles and sustainable technologies applicable to a comprehensive architectural project. (GC1.2)
7.0 An ability to assess contextual, theoretical and technical concepts relevant to the design project demonstrating a reflective and critical approach to and during the design process. (GC1.3) (GC2.3)
8.0 An ability to independently research material and to independently form a brief for a comprehensive building project. (GC7.3)
9.0 An ability to demonstrate a critical response to a climate crisis agenda. (GC9.1)