Artefact 1

Thesis design report incorporating Practice and Legislation submissions

Report

Structural and Constructional Strategy and Detail

Artefact 3

Artefact 2

Thesis Design Project 
This module is taught primarily through tutorials which occur once a week and design reviews, typically, every third week. There are also lectures which will introduce the various components of the module. Additional seminars provide formative feedback and guidance following-up and reinforcing the design reviews. These will draw upon historical and contemporary information regarding the physical, spatial, functional, economic and political context of the projects as the basis for discussion around the themes of the module 
This module will integrate design activity with activity in the subjects of History and Theory (as design research) and Technology and Practice (as written and drawn evidence). 
The range of project topics to be undertaken by students will, in the main, have been drawn from urban design project work undertaken in the main part of the first Semester and each student will agree a programme of work with the Module Leader which best suits their specialist leanings. 
The building types and architectural circumstances offered to the students will have sufficient inherent complexity compared to the CDP (BA Year Three) to warrant MArch (ARB / RIBA Part 2) status. 
The CDP will engage detailed design and buildability studies, showing an appreciation of sustainability matters. The CDP will be developed at 1:500, 1:200, 1: 100, 1:50 and more detailed scales as appropriate. 
Each individual student will prepare a high quality design for a complex project, where evidence will be shown of drawing (hand drawn and computer generated) and physical / computer model building skills, which deal with concept, site strategy and landscape, with the spaces of the building in two and three dimensions. 
Environmental, Structural &amp; Construction Strategy &amp; Detail 
This component of the module will be facilitated via a series of six workshop / technical reviews, following an introductory lecture. Guests and specialist design tutors will advise each individual student on the technical ways in which each project should develop and how to integrate the information and advice given. 
A record of each tutorial session should be kept by each student for their design journal &amp; academic portfolio. This module will fully utilise the model making and FabLab workshops. 
Practice Tasks 
A lecture series will provide a concise overview of the RIBA Professional Practice syllabus, as an introduction to architectural practice 
Thesis Design Report 
A lecture and subsequent seminar will describe the expectations, methodology and creative potential of illustrated documentation.

Integrated Design 2: Thesis architectural design - ideas through building - 7222MAR

Integrated Design 2: Thesis architectural design - ideas through building

Articulate, through the building design, an understanding and response to the social and economic context.

Cogently integrate strategies for constructional, structural, material, environmental and building services into a complex building.

Demonstrate, through application in design, an ability to synthesise issues of context and site analysis techniques, processes and communication.

Demonstrate a clear understanding of the parameters affecting optimum internal environments in relation to a complex design project.

Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the impact of buildings on the environment.

Communicate through the production of a comprehensive, illustrated, referenced report the evolution of their thesis project, from design precedents through brief development to spatial and technological resolution.

Demonstrate an appropriate level of skill in presentation techniques and the use of designated systems and equipment

Demonstrate a conceptual and critical approach to architectural design which integrates understanding of the needs and aspirations of building users

Investigate, critically evaluate and reason between alternative technological strategies in the context of innovative sustainable design.

Appraise and demonstrate an understanding of current UK policy, regulation and legislation.

Prepare a scheme design for a complex building using a range of media, and in response to a brief.

Appraise potential environmental impacts created by proposed technical strategies for a complex building, and evaluate those decisions.

Research and develop a conceptual and critical approach to a complex building design proposal and its context