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Postgraduate Course: Advanced Sustainable Design Project (ARCH11041)

Course Outline
School	Edinburgh College of Art	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	40	ECTS Credits	20
Summary	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.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites	It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed Sustainable Theory and Contexts (distance learning) (ARCH11037) AND Sustainable Theory and Contexts (ARCH11038) AND Sustainable Design Methodologies (ARCH11039) AND Sustainable Design Methodologies (distance learning) (ARCH11040)	Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities
Assessment (Further Info)	Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Assessment Methods
Additional Information (Assessment)	Design portfolio: 100%
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

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.

Reading List
None

Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills	Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information	studio tutorials as advised
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	Miss Susan Mitchell Tel: (0131 6)51 5743 Email: Susan.Mitchell@ed.ac.uk

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