SRD263 - Architecture Design Studio 03: Earthscapes
Unit details
Year | 2025 unit information |
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Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Waterfront (Geelong) |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Susan Ang |
Prerequisite: | SRD163 and SRD164 |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | SRD261 |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 2 hour lecture per week, 1 x 3 hour practical experience (studio) per week. |
Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Note:Equipment Requirements: Please note students will be required to pay additional costs (not included in standard student fees) for unit related materials. |
Content
Climate change and sustainability are increasingly significant factors in the design process. In this studio unit, students will explore architectural design with a major focus on the relationship between the built environment with natural environments, designing with Country and design for all people. Students will gain knowledge of design quality, which is a holistic balance between inputs and outcomes with regard to people and resources. Student exploration will include: the use of diagrams to communicate ideas, site analysis, and ecologically sustainable design principles. Learning and assessment activities will require students to consider cultural, social, material and environmental requirements, as well as the importance of historical precedent and designing collaboratively as part of a design team.
Learning Outcomes
ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
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ULO1 | Conceptualise, design and critically evaluate, architectural solutions that satisfy both aesthetic and technical requirements. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO2 | Communicate design concepts and their relationship to climatic, cultural and social issues of eco-architecture. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO3 | Apply methods, precedent, critique, context analysis and knowledge of the history of design theory. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO4 | Design with appropriate passive design and ecologically sustainable principles based on the relationship to natural and built environment contexts. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO5 | Identify teamwork skills they use and reflect on the development of their ability to collaborate within a design team. | GLO2: Communication |
Assessment
Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment 1 Site and site context study | Site Analysis/Conceptual Ideation. Report, 30 A4 page maximum | 20% | Week 3 |
Assessment 2 Group schematic design proposal | Collaborative graphic presentation and model | 30% | Week 7 |
Assessment 3 Individual Design project | Graphic presentation and model | 50% | Week 12 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for SRD263 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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