Undergraduate Course: Design: space, function and planning (ARCH07017)

Course Outline
School	Edinburgh College of Art	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	40	ECTS Credits	20
Summary	A studio based course consisting of technical exercises followed by projects dealing with site analysis, spatial design and planning.
Course description	1. to introduce concepts relating to the design of landform and earthworks 2. to resolve spatial and functional requirements for a simple design problem 3. to introduce site planning and analysis

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: undertake site analysis and site planning to comply with a basic brief design landform for specific functional requirements resolve functional and spatial demands in a simple composition

Reading List
Ching, F. (1996) Architecture: form, space & order / Francis D.K. Ching. New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold. Littlefield, D. (2008) Metric Handbook. Architectural Press. Oxford. Lynch, K. (1984) Site Planning. MIT Press. Simonds, J. O. (1983) Landscape architecture: a manual of site planning and design. McGraw-Hill. Tandy, C. (1972) Handbook of Urban Landscape. Architectural Press Weddle, A. E. (1979) Landscape techniques. Heinemann.