Postgraduate Course: Advanced Sustainable Design Project (ARCH11041)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Arts, Culture and Environment |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
40 |
| Home subject area |
Architecture |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None
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Taught in Gaelic? |
No |
| Course description |
This is a studio based course that seeks to address key issues of urban and sustainable development. The course will focus around a design project situated in a UK city allowing the testing of ideas in challenging contexts.
It will involve group working and embraces multi and trans-disciplinary modes of working.
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Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| Additional information |
studio tutorials as advised |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
The ability to interrogate site, programme and context in relation to the production of sustainable construction, engineering and architectural strategies.
A capacity for adaptability to communicate and collaborate with other disciplines in the production of coherent environmental strategies.
Acquisition of expertise in the intelligent use of quantitative data in making qualitative design decisions.
A facility to make imaginative and intelligent building proposals that respond proactively to sustainable agendas. |
Assessment Information
| Design portfolio: 100% |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords |
studio architecture sustainable design project environmental |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Mr John Brennan
Tel: (0131 6)50 2324
Email: John.Brennan@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mrs Catherine Carmichael
Tel: (0131 6)50 2305
Email: Catherine.Carmichael@ed.ac.uk |
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