Undergraduate Course: Architectural Design: Any Place (ARCH08006)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course is thematically focused on circumstances and conditions beyond the local. It moves away from ideas of locality to consider issues of foreignness and distance. This thematic focus is supplemented by a broader interest in the city as a condition for architecture. Students investigate a range of everyday practices that constitute the experiences of the contemporary city.
Working through a series of studio exercises, students explore these themes in architectural terms. These exercises also support the development of skills in the manipulation of form, volume and built fabric. They do so in the context of ideas of creative agency and design inquiry within broader frameworks of accountability and consequence. |
| Course description |
Not entered
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
Architectural Design: Elements (ARCH08001) AND
Architectural Design: Assembly (ARCH08004)
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Co-requisites | It is RECOMMENDED that students also take
Architectural Design: In Place (ARCH08007) AND
Technology and Environment: Applications (ARCH08008)
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| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This Course requires additional costs to be met by the Student.
Travel and Accommodation: There are required travel costs associated with international field trips.
Student will be expected to part- support the cost of international travel by air, and the cost of accommodation for 4-7 nights.
Equipment and software:
Most equipment and software required will be provided by the School, but students will be expected to provide some specialist equipment including laptop headphones and SD cards.
Materials:
Students will be expected to fund the purchase of general art and design materials, such as sketchbooks, paper and pens. Students will be expected to fund purchase of some specialist materials required by their course e.g. model making tools, model making materials, drawing board etc.
Course Organisers will support you in meeting intended learning outcomes while keeping material costs to a minimum, encouraging sustainable, responsible sourcing through Free Use Hub but students will be expected to fund optional material costs as necessary for their own project work.
Printing:
Students are expected to fund occasional printing of A4/A3/A1 sheets, booklet binding etc.
Funding:
There is a fund set aside to partially support the fieldtrip for each student.
Budget:
To fully participate in the BA/MA (hons) Architecture programme students are recommended to budget a minimum of £300 in Years 1, £600 in Year 2, £300 in Year 3, £300 in Year 4. NOTE: This figure is for all courses undertaken in an academic year. |
| Additional Costs | Field trip travel.
Processes and materials involved in the presentation of work: printing and reprographic charges, photographic costs, drawing and modelling materials; digital storage etc. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | This course is only open to students on an approved exchange with ESALA.
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| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 6,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 88,
Fieldwork Hours 10,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Formative Assessment Hours 3,
Summative Assessment Hours 3,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
75 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Summative assessment through design coursework, and portfolio presentation for examination at the end of the semester.
Design coursework includes drawn, modelled and documented design studio work & project panels. |
| Feedback |
All students will receive formative assessment, normally mid-way through the semester, in the form of written feedback.
Feedback sheets will be issued within 15 days of the hand-in of the relevant assessment exercise. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate ability to develop architectural designs that appropriately respond to specified non-local conditions and that integrate an explicit investigation through research; and to reflect on the consequences of these decisions.
- Demonstrate capacity to synthesize a range of programmatic components, formal, environmental, spatial and technical strategies of modest complexity within an architectural design that responds to specified urban conditions;
- Demonstrate ability to critically explore and effectively communicate design ideas and propositions individually and as part of a team, in a range of digital and analogue formats, including portfolio.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
There is one main studio day which will be structured according to the design projects being undertaken.
A mixture of methods will be used, supervised learning, directed learning, and independent learning. |
| Keywords | Studio |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Nikolia Kartalou
Tel:
Email: N.Kartalou@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Louisa King
Tel: (01316) 502306
Email: Louisa.King@ed.ac.uk |
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