Postgraduate Course: Advanced Sustainable Design Project (ARCH11041)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This is a studio based course that addresses key issues of urban and sustainable development. We focus a design project situated in a UK city for the duration of the course. You will form sustainable design strategies based around social and economic regeneration.
Architectural design projects are often misunderstood as having a conclusion in a resolved proposition, revealed in at an increasing level of detail. Instead through a series of specific design narratives you will learn skills that will help you to intervene in the built environment in a creative way.
These design narratives connect to encourage lucid and deeply informed design proposals. It gives you knowledge and skill to deploy sustainable solutions and strategies that have both breadth and depth.
You have the freedom to work collaboratively in groups or develop individual projects that not only reflect the aims and objectives of the course but also your own professional background, skills and experience.
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| Course description |
Not entered
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 88,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
293 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
You are asked to complete a design portfolio that is based a series of tasks that culminates in an exhibtion.
The individual component tasks will together comprise 80% of the final mark and be based on all the learning outcomes.
The final exhibition submission will comprise 20% of the final mark and be based on learning outcome 4.
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| Feedback |
Formative feedback is given to you during the course to help you understand the learning material and assist you in the assignments we ask you to do. Summative feedback is given on a finished piece of assignment work that advises you how well you have performed in terms of the aims and objectives of the assignment and overall in relation to the course.
This course is based around specific tasks within the design project. As a result, you will receive formal formative feedback for each task before your final submission.
This course is delivered largely through studio tutorials, workshops and reviews during which you will receive verbal feedback as your work progresses.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Gain experience of conducting a structured design research project in which programme, site selection and design decisions grow directly from the research.
- Acquire the facility to frame design proposals that respond to programmatic, contextual and sustainable criteria.
- Develop the ability to merge a quantitative sensibility of performance with a qualitative understanding of experiential and ephemeral concerns towards the design of a proposal.
- Develop advanced communication and representational skills that reconcile the complexities and often competing demands and scales of sustainable design.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
studio tutorials as advised |
| Keywords | studio architecture sustainable design project environmental |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr John Brennan
Tel: (0131 6)50 2324
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Course secretary | Miss Susan Mitchell
Tel: (0131 6)51 5743
Email: |
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