ARCT20010 Architectural Design IV

Academic Year 2020/2021

This module begins the exploration of public space and public building. On completion of a series of analysis and primer projects, students will complete a design project for a public building and its associated outdoor spaces. Projects will include both group work and individual work at different stages. Students are required to develop and test their projects at a range of scales and using a wide selection of techniques at key moments in the design process. A series of interim submission requirements encourages this, but increasingly students are expected to take more possession over their own projects and to find independently the graphic or three-dimensional means to critique test and develop their own work.

Students must complete all projects in this module and attendance during design studio sessions is mandatory. The module also requires all students to make a collective exhibition of their work at the end of the trimester.

All of the learning outcomes must be adequately demonstrated to pass the module. Each student is required to submit an individual collated and organised physical and digital portfolio of their trimester's work including all drawings, models, sketches, etc., which must demonstrate the required learning outcomes.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate the ability to critique and develop projects individually and in a group setting, and with appropriate reference to design precedents.
2. Carry out site surveys and context analysis and represent them in appropriate graphic and model forms. Demonstrate the ability to apply this site and context analysis in the development of design interventions
3. Make appropriate design interventions within and responding to a specified context through the integration of function, form, space, structure, materials and landscape.
4. Demonstrate the ability to organize and interpret a moderately complex accommodation schedule of large and small spaces in an appropriate organizational and spatial form.
5. Demonstrate a developing understanding of building construction, structure, materials and environment and an ability to integrate these into a design.
6. Demonstrate an ability to use a variety of physical and digital representational skills appropriate to the various stages of the design project.
7. Demonstrate an ability to present and exhibit your work and ideas coherently and evocatively
8. Analyse and respond critically to a European city and a series of visited projects and represent this analysis in appropriate graphic and model forms.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Studio

272

Autonomous Student Learning

60

Total

332

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Studio work
Active/task-based learning
Enquiry & problem-based learning;
Peer and group work;
Critical writing; Reflective learning;
Student presentations 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Requirements:

Minimum grade of D- in ARCT10020 Architectural Design II


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Pre-requisite:
ARCT10010 - Architectural Design I, ARCT10020 - Architectural Design II


 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Portfolio: A Portfolio containing the full range of work done by the student is submitted at the end of the semester.
A letter grade is allocated by the Studio Staff & ratified by the School and Externs.
Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded Yes

100


Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

There are extensive individual tutorials, group/class feedback and peer review activities throughout the semester. Students will be actively encouraged to constructively critique and assess both their own work and the work of their peers. During the study break, students will receive written feedback via email on their progress to date in the module.

Name Role
Ms Phoebe Brady Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Livia Hurley Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Assoc Professor Jennifer Keenahan Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Mr John-Barry Lowe Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Ms Rae Moore Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Mr Peter Tansey Lecturer / Co-Lecturer