Architectural Design Thesis 2 (U00768)

? Credit Points : 40 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : ACE-5-ADThesis2

Architectural Design Thesis 2 operates within the general theme of architecture in the urban context. Architectural Design Thesis 2 involves making a series of architectural projects. The projects of ADT 1 frame hypotheses for urban design. The projects of ADT2 are required to further develop the projects of ADT1. The design projects of ADT 1 and ADT 2 are required to co-operate to form a single Thesis Project. The Thesis Project will be framed by a Design Report. The projects of both ADT 1 and ADT 2 will be investigative, poetic, theoretically informed, and will deal in a critical way with issues and questions of contemporary relevance. ADT 1 and ADT 2 look for a sustained and rigorous process of investigation in the development of all aspects of urban design.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Architectural Design Opening B; Architectural Design Exhibition; Architectural Design Thesis 1; Studies in Contemporary Architectural Theory

? Co-requisites : Architectural Management, Practice & Law

? Costs : Specialist Equipment Fee Processes and materials involved in the presentation of their work: printing and reprographic charges, photographic costs, drawing and modelling materials; digital storage etc.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Architecture, (School of Arts, Culture and Environment, Schedule A)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 5th year

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 7 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 29 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
18/09/2007	11:30	13:30			Studio 4, Minto House

? Additional Class Information : Actual hours determined by the course co-ordinator at the beginning of each session

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

- An awareness of the full complexity of the contemporary urban environment and of the possibilities and problematics of architecture's interaction with it.
- The development of a set of conceptual tools which bear upon the production of architecture in this context.
- The refinement of the ability to critically scrutinise the physical, institutional and historical aspects of the context within which the proposed design will emerge.
- The ability to develop a theoretically and historically informed thesis, within which the development of the project is grounded, and to pursue its consequences across the full range of architectural scales, from the urban strategy to the detail.
- An enhanced understanding of the production of architecture as a collective endeavour and the development of an ethos which recognises and values this.
- A sophisticated approach to the programmatic organisation, arrangement, and structuring of a complex architectural assemblage in a loaded contextual situation (e.g. the built, social, historical, technological and environmental contexts)
- A knowledge of how to work through, at a high degree of resolution, the structural, constructional, material and environmental aspects of a complex building with reference to discussions with specialised consultants.
- An understanding of the issues relating to the question of sustainability, and its concomitant urban and architectural strategies.
- The continuing development of technical skills (drawing, modelling, photography, use of the computer and workshop) and a critical understanding of the effects of differing forms of representation.