Tectonic Resolution &amp; Environmental Design - Preparing constructional, structural and environmental strategies and detail for the building adaptation proposals

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Detailed Spatial Design - Developing, refining and completing detailed spatial design proposals instigated in the previous origination module

Artefact

This module will encourage students to adopt a rigorous approach to structure materiality and environmental design. This should include knowledge and practice associated with their project&#39;s ecological impact over time through integrated environmental design strategies. 
The year as a whole is focussed on the rigorous exploration of spatial design at a range of scales, relating to the modification of existing built forms within the surrounding physical and social realm whilst also developing meaningful interior studies that capture the articulation of light, space, materiality, texture and human occupation. The philosophical context for this module is intellectual culture, and how changes in culture might influence how we envisage, create and – crucially – meaningfully inhabit space.
This module is linked to and develops the design of 5121IDSRI that engages students in the process of interpreting thematically developing related briefing documentation and investigating through three-dimensional studies the notion of changing culture as built form.

Creative Adaptation - Resolution - 5522IDSRI

Creative Adaptation - Resolution

Articulate clearly through writing, drawings and diagrams an evaluation of their project’s internal visual, thermal and acoustic environments.

Create and present a building adaptation project that assimilates a concept using a range of media to include digital and physical model-making and in response to a brief.

Demonstrate an understanding of the needs and aspirations of existing and proposed building users.

Synthesise constructional, structural, environmental and regulatory requirements and strategies with a design project that explores the creative adaptation of an existing building.

Creatively apply art, cultural, environmental or other work to a building adaptation project, in terms of its spatial resolution and representation.

Compare and contrast the proposed environmental strategies with exemplary precedents.