Live Thesis Portfolio
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ABEE4112 | Architecture and Built Environment | 4 | 30 | Spring UK |
- Code
- ABEE4112
- School
- Architecture and Built Environment
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 30
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
The portfolio component that constitutes this module is a continuation of the research and brief development activities from the co-requisite module ABEE4113. It builds upon the latter’s aims and learning outcomes.
Each student will continue to work under the supervision of the tutor that was assigned at the beginning of the year.
For this module, the teaching focus shifts towards the production of a Portfolio as a comprehensive representation of the student’s full thesis project. The emphasis is on the development of architectural proposals that serve as ‘proof of concept’, which builds upon the research findings and initial discoveries about site, programme and context that emerged out of the year 2 coursework. The majority of time will be spent testing and developing those proposals as part of a live design process. The body of work that is produced for the portfolio will be presented for examination during the second semester’s exam period.
Each student is expected to follow a self-directed plan of independent study throughout the year's process, from research through briefing and design development.
Target Students
Students studying MArch Architecture with Collaborative Practice (ARB/RIBA Part 2) - L7 Apprenticeship - U7UARCCPY.
Co-requisites
Modules you must take in the same academic year, or have taken in a previous year, to enrol in this module:
Classes
- One 3-hour workshop each week for 3 weeks
- One 7-hour-15-minute practicum each week for 9 weeks
The teaching and learning in this module will involve attendance at tutorials/ seminars, reviews and fieldtrips. It is expected that students will engage in a range of studio-based activities.
Assessment
- 100% Coursework: Portfolio.
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
• develop design proposals that emerge from the research findings developed under the co-requisite module ABEE4113 and build upon the latter’s aims and learning outcomes.• develop advanced design skills that intelligently integrate a wide range of architectural issues, conceptual, theoretical or technical, in relationship to the design development process.• encourage the pursuit of a particular and personal line of enquiry into the nature of architecture in its broader socio-economic, cultural and professional contexts.• develop a critical approach to different design approaches.• develop a range of communication and presentation skills commensurate with the nature of the architectural representation.• have regard for the practice of architecture and professionalism.• produce work individually and as part of a design team.Learning Outcomes
1. Produce architectural designs that develop a conceptual critical approach to architecture that integrate and satisfy the aesthetic aspects of an architectural proposal and the relevant technical and environmental considerations commensurate with the nature of the individual thesis proposition.
2. Generate analysis and systematically test and appraise design options, through progressive stages of development and complexity; and draw conclusions which display methodological and theoretical rigour.
3. Understand the inter-relationship between people, buildings and the environment and an understanding of the need to relate buildings and the spaces between them to human needs and scale, as well as to larger spatial contexts and systems.
4. Demonstrate an ability to use visual, verbal and written communication methods and appropriate media (including sketching, modelling, digital and electronic techniques) to represent the testing, analysis and critical appraisal of complex design proposals and their resolution to a range of professional and lay audiences.
5. Demonstrate the ability to apply the design brief in order to develop the programme through client and user requirements, as well as the response to site and context.
6. Produce documentation and reports which are clear, analytical and logical covering a range of architectural issues of culture, theory and design.
7. Demonstrate knowledge, understanding and application of sustainability design principles.