Postgraduate Course: Architectural Design Studio A (Integrated) (ARCH11093)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | The emphasis in this course is the development and refinement of the structural, material, technical, environmental, and legislative aspects of the student's design project. These are not pursued as ends in themselves, but as part of a fully integrated design project guided by conceptual, theoretical, contextual, and ethical concerns. |
| Course description |
The course¿s studio content, themes, methodologies, and approaches change on an annual basis and are determined by the studio leaders according to their research interests and expertise. Topics have previously included, for example, the use of digital sensing technologies to develop architectural proposals; the reuse, repair, and deconstruction of existing buildings and infrastructures; the development of low carbon and bioregional approaches to architectural materials and components; and the development of urban interventions in charged environmental and socio-political settings. Studios have addressed a variety of national and international contexts, including, for example, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Berlin, Naples, Derry, and Tangier. The studio themes and methodologies will be described to students through briefing materials made available at the beginning of the academic year.
This course involves one routine studio day and one optional follow-up tutorial morning per week throughout the semester. The latter session also includes additional lectures and workshops as determined by studio leaders and in accordance with the specific themes and context identified in the briefing materials. In addition, over the course of one dedicated week, students might visit a site and engage in fieldwork, or participate in a multi-day workshop. Students are expected to engage by following the tasks and exercises in the briefing documents, which they will, individually or in groups, develop in advance of each studio tutorial.
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 29 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Lecture Hours 22,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 66,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 66,
External Visit Hours 3,
Online Activities 10,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 6,
Formative Assessment Hours 6,
Summative Assessment Hours 6,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
207 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
This course has 1 assessment component.
¿¿Portfolio, 100%, December exam diet.
The portfolio is inclusive of an installation in the studio (mixed media) and a digital submission (60-70 pages).
The portfolio is marked to all four Learning Outcomes, which are equally weighted. Coursework is assessed by Learning Outcomes, and presented in the form of drawings, models, digital representations, etc, as outlined in the studio brief and discussed with course tutors.
The Learning Outcomes are defined in relation to the ARB Part 2 criteria required to be demonstrated in the course. Please refer to the Programme Handbook via Learn for detailed information.
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| Feedback |
Formative Feedback
Formative feedback is delivered by studio tutors verbally during weekly individual or group tutorials, and in response to the drawn/built in-progress outcomes of design exercises. It is delivered verbally by studio tutors and by invited guests during studio reviews, which are organised by studio leaders to support students in the development of their projects, usually around the middle and the end of the semester. In response to reviews, written feedback is provided by course tutors, critically reflecting on the work produced in relation to the Learning Outcomes, and communicating specific areas for further investigation and development.
Summative Feedback
Written summative feedback will be provided by studio tutors to individual students on completion of their coursework. Summative feedback will be provided as per University regulations.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Structure a complex architectural and programmatic assemblage in response to a nuanced contextual situation (e.g., the built, social, technological, urban, and environmental contexts).
- Design a complex building to a high degree of resolution, with reference to the structural, constructional, environmental, material, and legislative aspects of a project, and to discussions with specialised consultants.
- Implement architectural and urban environmental strategies that address, to a high degree of specification, sustainability, embodied and operational carbon and energy, and climate.
- Critically identify, and present complex design proposals through, appropriate forms of representation (e.g., drawing, modelling, photography, film, installation, and workshop techniques).
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Reading List
Studio themes change on an annual basis and are determined by the studio leaders in dialogue with Course Organiser and Programme Director. Reading lists therefore change with each new thematic, with tailored reading lists issued as part of briefing documents.
Examples of the texts read in the course have included:
Brand, Stewart. How Buildings Learn: What Happens after They¿re Built. Penguin Books, 1995.
Haraway, Donna. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016.
Hutton, Jane Elizabeth. Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories in Material Movement. Routledge, 2020.
Latour, Bruno. Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climate Regime. Translated by Catherine Porter. Polity Press, 2018.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Research and Enquiry: Creating, identifying and evaluating the structural, constructional, environmental, material, and legislative aspects of a complex design proposal.
Personal Effectiveness: Setting objectives to formulate and evaluate design proposals that respond to current knowledge about sustainability, embodied carbon, operational energy, and climate.
Personal and Intellectual Autonomy: Developing reflective awareness of the ethical, social, and environmental dimensions of architectural design.
Communication: Using appropriate forms of representation and communication to articulate and effectively explain a complex architectural design proposal.
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| Keywords | Design,Technology and Environment,Architectural Specialisms |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Christopher French
Tel: (0131 6)50 2310
Email: C.A.French@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Louisa King
Tel: (01316) 502306
Email: Louisa.King@ed.ac.uk |
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