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On completion of this module students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate the ability to analyse and critically evaluate existing and historic buildings and environments and to use these as an active component in the design process.
2. Demonstrate the ability to apply critical and analytical thinking to the development of a series of projects, employing a range of work methods and techniques.
3. Demonstrate the ability to use design as a means of investigation and research.
4. Demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate issues of building construction, structure and materials and integrate them into a synthetic design proposal.
5. Demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate issues of environment and integrate them into a synthetic design proposal.
6. Demonstrate an ability to use a variety of representational skills as a means of investigation and research and to present and exhibit work coherently.
7. Demonstrate the ability to communicate, discuss, critique and reflect on your own work and the work of your peers.
Key content covered will include an exploration of modes of engaged practice, the role of the practicing architect in society, introduction to research by design and methodologies for framing research by design projects.
These themes will be examined and tested by students in applied projects, under relevant contemporary themes which may be typological, infrastructural, landscape, or urban based. Students will be encouraged to develop their research, analytical and critical thinking skills in the application to a thematic project/s set by the tutors.
Exemplar studies of similar projects will be investigated.
Detailed project design will be developed by students through a variety of scales to reach a good level of resolution.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Small Group | 50 |
Tutorial | 20 |
Seminar (or Webinar) | 80 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 150 |
Total | 300 |
B. Sc. Architecture or equivalent
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Portfolio: A portfolio of work including research, survey and design drawings, final drawings, digital and physical models, written material, images, undertaken by the student individually or within a group. | Week 12 | n/a | Graded | Yes | 100 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Summer | No |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
Students are in weekly contact with their tutors in small group meetings. At these, student's work is discussed and summative feedback is provided that is focused on positively developing project ideas. It is not intended to grade ideas which are in the process of taking shape. Reviews are scheduled during the semester at which students will be given an indication of what development is required in the case of a project being underdeveloped. Written feedback is given after the Interim Review and after the final assessment.
Name | Role |
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Mr Christophe Antipas | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Paul Arnold | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Professor Hugh Campbell | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Philip Comerford | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Ms Anna Cooke | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Marcus Donaghy | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Tiago Faria | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Mark Hackett | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Ms Fiona Hughes | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Livia Hurley | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr David Leech | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Assoc Professor Samantha Martin | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr James Martin | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Professor Finola O'Kane Crimmins | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Oran O'Siochain | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Ellen Rowley | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Professor Nasrin Seraji | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Stephen Tierney | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Assoc Professor Michael Pike | Tutor |
Studio | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 | Fri 09:00 - 12:50 |
Studio | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 | Fri 14:00 - 17:50 |
Studio | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 | Mon 14:00 - 17:50 |
Studio | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 | Wed 14:00 - 17:50 |