Diploma in Architect Engineer

Course Details

Course Information Package

Course Unit TitleARCHITECTURAL DESIGN VII
Course Unit CodeAPX401
Course Unit DetailsBA Architecture (Required Courses) -
Number of ECTS credits allocated12
Learning Outcomes of the course unitBy the end of the course, the students should be able to:
  1. Develop the ability to use effectively empirical research methods and tools in order to investigate topics relating to user’s needs, physical space design and the construction of the built environment.
  2. Acquire and develop skills in experimenting with architectural and urban design composition and development of alternative options in the context of the interpretation of a user / client brief.
  3. Develop an understanding and skills in handling larger scale projects and sites at a neighborhood scale, organization of outdoor space and the interface between private and public realm.
  4. Expand their ability to visualize and represent spatial concepts in abstract expressions and conventional architectural language.
  5. Expand the ability to construct design rationales and present effectively project work.
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
PrerequisitesAPX302Co-requisitesNONE
Recommended optional program componentsNONE
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.

Recommended and/or required reading:
Textbooks
  • The ageing body and architecture, Catharina Nord, Assistant Professor, NISA, Linkoping University Norrkoping Sweden.
  • Ιn Detail (special publication): Housing for people of all ages, editor Christian Schillich, 2007.
  • Ο περί στεγών για ηλικιωμένους και αναπήρους νόμοι το 1991 και 1994 – Κ.Δ.Π. 213/2009.
  • Web search for social and economic benefits and issues: Τμήμα Κοινωνικών ασφαλίσεων, Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών.
References
  • "Humanistic Design of Assisted Living" John P. Marsden, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
  • "The Essence of Home: Design Solutions for Assisted Living Housing" W.J. Brummett, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1997
  • "New Approaches to Housing for the Second Half of Life (Living Concepts Series)", Andreas Huber, Birkhauser, 2008
  • ‘Feeling of what happens; body emotion and the making of consciouselee, Antonio Damasio, Vintage Books, 2000
  • ‘Problems of Aging sociological and social phsycological perspective’ H Loether, MW Books, 1980
  • Sociopolis, Project for a City of the future (sharing tower ), Vincent Guallart, 2004
  • Self Sufficient Housing, Iaac 1st Advanced Architectural Contest ACTAR 2006
  • Green Architecture, James Wines, Taschen 2000
  • Big Ideas XS Small Buildings, Phyllis Richardson, Ed Lucasl Dietrich, Thames & Hudson 2001
  • Global Housing Projects – 25 buildings since 1980
  • Architectural Papers – Monograph, ETH ACTAR, 2008
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
 

Assessment methods and criteria
Participation10%
Analysis exercises10%
Two Intermediate Assignments20%
Final Assignment 40%
Language of instructionGreek
Work placement(s)NO

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