Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN VII | ||||||||||
Course Unit Code | APX401 | ||||||||||
Course Unit Details | BA Architecture (Required Courses) - | ||||||||||
Number of ECTS credits allocated | 12 | ||||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||||
Prerequisites | APX302 | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||||
Course Contents | This studio course attempts to articulate students experiences on architectural design with the issues related to the urban environment and the ways of intervention in the urban fabric. The course is not focused in one building type but in a multifunctional type of large scale building programs. Studio’s basic design parameters focus on: the relation and integration of the proposed artefact with the urban context, analysis and design of the interrelated open public spaces and their connection to the proposed intervention, comprehension of the urban setting conditions and their relations on the design form of the intervention, the capability of architecture to improve the image of the city, consideration on environmental design and sustainability issues, landscape design approach. The studio course focuses on large scale and much more complex interventions than the ones of the previous semesters and pays particular importance in questions of management of complexity that accompany a multifaceted context setting, a complex building program and management of information that results from the analysis of this complexity. | ||||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The taught part of course is delivered to the students through: - mainly face to face individual and group tutorials - design workshops and interim reviews at critical stages of the project design development - seminars on specific/specialist topics directly relating to programme topic - desk top research – empirical review of case studies - informal lectures on relevant topics as they arise from the project development | ||||||||||
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Language of instruction | Greek | ||||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |