| CODE | BEN2101 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Design Workshop 3 | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Faculty for the Built Environment | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Study-unit Aims: This study-unit consists of a series of projects, which will be carried out in a design studio environment, dealing with building components and spaces, and which are intended to progressively develop the student’s ability to organize the plan of a simple construction, and to design and incorporate in such plan a variety of building components. The aim of this series of projects is ultimately to ensure that students can understand the technical requirements of a simple construction, and can design simple buildings, incorporating all such requirements. Typical projects will include small terraced or detached residential units, studio apartments, small public utility buildings such as sanitary facilities, clinic or child care facilities. The project focus will include spatial organization, space relationships, building/site relationships, but also the way building components can be assembled together to create a construction. Learning Outcomes: - Ability to effectively synthesize building components into a compact plan of a simple building or an identified area of a larger building. - Ability to understand and apply the principles of spatial organization and relationships between different components of a building. - Ability to understand, and incorporate, the requirements for barrier-free access, in the design of spatial components of buildings. - Ability to understand the relationship between a building and its site and effectively locate a building taking into consideration topography, views, wind, sun, vegetation and other site specific elements. - Awareness of the impact of environmental issues on the form and appearance of buildings and ability to identify various passive energy technologies that can be incorporated in buildings, and to manipulate such incorporation of passive technologies to achieve desired outcomes. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Various architectural journals and reference books will be indicated. - Design Like You Give a Damn, ed. Architecture for Humanity, Thames & Hudson, 2006. - Barrier-Free Design: Principles, Planning, Examples, Heiss, Degenhart & Ebe, Edition Detail, Birkhauser. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Offered only to B.Sc. (Hons) in Built Environment Studies students. | ||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Project and Tutorials | ||||||||
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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