Undergraduate Course: Architectural Design: Tectonics (ARCH10003)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This course is focused on extending students' capacity to operate with different approaches to architectural design. Students are asked to develop specific approaches to design problems in a coherent manner, deploying skills in architectural design and communication gained in earlier Stages. The course concentrates on developing architectural designs that integrate programmatic, formal, material, structural and budgetary considerations. The course is offered in a number of parallel design studios that sustain the overarching pedagogical aims through varying and distinctive sub-themes. Students produce coherent architectural designs of moderate complexity communicated with clarity and precision. |
| Course description |
This course is taught through a number of parallel design ¿Studios¿, focussed on distinctive sub-themes, which students elect to follow. Through a series of design exercises students are supported to research and investigate defined technological themes for architectural exploration, culminating in an architectural design proposal for a specified site and programme. Weekly tutorial support is offered by dedicated studio staff. Additional workshops, field-trips and specialist lectures pertinent to sub-themes may also be offered within each studio.
Full-cohort lectures introduce overarching topics for exploration by design, and provide opportunity for shared learning across studios.
A pair of common exercises, the Technical Brief and Technical Drawing, define shared expectations for technical resolution between studios. Both exercises are submitted as part of the final coursework portfolio.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | This course is only open to students on an approved exchange with ESALA. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 115 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Lecture Hours 12,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 77,
Fieldwork Hours 8,
External Visit Hours 8,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 14,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
259 )
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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.
1. Portfolio, 100%, equally weighted against all Learning Outcomes, submitted in the exam period.
The portfolio will document preparatory exercise and an architectural design project, as specified in the ¿Studio¿ brief. It will also include the Technical Brief and Technical Drawing. It will be submitted and exhibited physically for examination, as well as being submitted digitally for record. All learning outcomes are equally weighted, and assessed through this single item of coursework.
Students on the BA Architecture Programme are permitted a maximum of two assessment attempts to pass this course. |
| Feedback |
Students' design proposals are presented for review at mid-semester and end-of-semester stages.
During weekly tutorials, oral formative feedback is delivered by tutors. Further oral formative feedback is offered by tutors and guests at two 'reviews'. These will occur at mid-semester point (weeks 5-7) and at end of semester (weeks 10-11). Within 15 days of a mid-semester review between, tutors will provide written formative feedback on performance against Learning Outcomes.
Written summative feedback is provided after submission and assessment of the portfolio, as per University Regulations. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Investigate and appraise environmental, structural, constructional, social and safety matters raised by a given design brief.
- Integrate an appropriate technological approach in the design of a building with moderate complexity.
- Demonstrate specified skills in two- and three-dimensional representational techniques to explain and develop a design project.
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Reading List
Cadwell, Mike. (2007). Strange details. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Deplazes, Andrea. (2005). Constructing Architecture Materials, Processes, Structures, a Handbook. Basel: Birkhäuser.
Frampton, Kenneth. (1995). Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Shwarz, Chad. (2017). Introducing Architectural Tectonics: Exploring the Intersection of Design and Construction. New York: Routledge
Tuomey, John. (2008). Architecture, craft, and culture: Reflections on the work of O'Donnell Tuomey. Oysterhaven, Kinsale, Colo. Cork, Ireland: Gandon Editions |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Research and enquiry: the ability to use skills in research and enquiry to identify and apply appropriate technological approaches to a defined architectural problem.
Personal and intellectual autonomy: the ability to use personal and intellectual autonomy to critically evaluate architectural designs.
Personal effectiveness: the ability to manage time effectively to achieve a final design proposal within the timelines set, while using judgement to address the challenges of the project brief.
Communication: the ability to use visual, written and spoken skills to explore and communicate architectural proposals. |
| Keywords | Studio,Integration of technical knowledge |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Liam Ross
Tel: (0131 6)51 5781
Email: liam.ross@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Laura Varga
Tel: (0131 6)50 2430
Email: laura.varga@ed.ac.uk |
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