SRD765 - Architectural Design and Resolution

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Waterfront (Geelong)
Credit point(s):2
EFTSL value:0.250
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Lana Van Galen
Cohort rule:

This unit is only available to students enrolled in S700, D306, D764

Prerequisite:

D364 and D307 articulating students - Nil

All other students SRD753 and SRT751

Corequisite:

D364 and D307 articulating students SRT751

Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 300 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.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 2 hour lecture per week, 1 x 5 hour practical experience (studio) per week.

Note:

Please note students will be required to pay additional costs (not included in standard student fees) for unit related materials.

Content

In this unit you will investigate architectural design as both a discipline of philosophic intention coupled with compositional, structural, constructional, and material development. This will require you to undertake a process of architectural design development, where designs will be analysed, and the design intentions developed through investigations into compositional and material methods. You will be required to develop your design to a considerable level of resolution and detail such that significant parts of the scheme are clearly understood for their philosophic, structural, and material qualities.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Evaluate a project design, identify its intentions and develop the scheme with a greater level of understanding and at a finer scale. Identify potential construction systems and materials consistent with the project brief or original design.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO2

Demonstrate professional capacity to assess and to integrate a body of knowledge, including construction systems and materials consistent with project brief, as well as methods in Architectural design to further develop a project, or original design.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO6: Self-management

ULO3

Identify and explore solutions to complex issues in the design and resolution process, including investigation and integration of appropriate structural, construction, service, and transport systems as well as appropriate material selection and nomination of quality and performance standards for the selected materials, finishes, fittings components and systems.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving

ULO4

Present and discuss sophisticated ideas of architectural intention using both verbal and visual formats of communication. Demonstrate Integration of materials and components based upon an understanding of their physical properties.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication

ULO5

Timely and professional completion, curation and communication of accurate and comprehensible documents that may include, as required, drawings models, specifications, schedules, and other relevant modes of information.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO6: Self-management

 

ULO6

Manage and take responsibility for an individual project.

GLO6: Self-management

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1
Weekly activity folio
Weekly online submission of in-class activities 20% Weeks 1 - 10
Assessment 2
Mid-trimester project presentation
Digital submission and live presentation of project drawings 30% Week 6
Assessment 3
Final folio and demonstration
Digital submission and a live review will be undertaken in the studio with a review panel. It should consist of all drawings produced throughout the unit. 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 the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SRD765 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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