Architectural Design Closure (U00769)

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

The Thesis Project developed through ADT 1 and ADT 2 raises many issues concerning architecture in the urban context. ADTC has a single objective. The objective is to present the Thesis Project of ADT 1 and ADT 2 as complete, in its own terms and in the terms of the ARB/RIBA validation criteria. Students will frame issues that either require specific further development or may arise as parallel concerns of the Thesis Project. These will range between design, technological, environmental, cultural, political, economic, management, and presentational issues.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Architectural Design Opening B; Architectural Design Exhibition; Architectural Design Thesis 1; Studies in Contemporary Architectural Theory; Architectural Design Thesis 2; Architectural Management, Practice and Law

? Co-requisites : Academic Portfolio 2

? 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 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 minutes per week for 11 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
10/01/2008	14:00	17:00	Lecture Room 1, Minto House	Central	Includes Academic Portfolio 2

? Additional Class Information : Self directed study

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.
- The refinement of the ability to articulately communicate and explain, through drawings and models, verbally and in writing, a project and the architectural process from whence it emerges.