Diploma in Architect Engineer

Course Details

Course Information Package

Course Unit TitleARCHITECTURAL DESIGN VIII
Course Unit CodeAPX402
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. Develop skills in handling a larger scale complex architectural project.
  3. Develop knowledge on the specific topic of ‘Place and Culture’ and the role of architecture in contributing to Place Making in the context of the traditional European city.
  4. Use the experimentation with alternative architectural and design scenaria as an in-depth knowledge development methodology and learning tool.
  5. Expand their ability to visualize and represent spatial concepts in abstract expressions and conventional architectural language.
  6. Expand the ability to construct design rationales and present effectively project work.
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
PrerequisitesAPX401Co-requisitesNONE
Recommended optional program componentsNONE
Course Contents This studio course continues with the concerns raised by the theme of the previous semester and offers a line of alternative topics of relatively ‘large scale’ architectural projects concerning buildings with a public character, a complex building program and specific requirements at multiple levels (contextual integration, management and reflection on complex building requirements, morphological and aesthetic approach, structural and constructional standards and specific technological issues, etc.). In this course students are called to compose knowledge gained from the development of all previous laboratories of architectural design. The ability of managing all possible relationships developed in space, offers a wide range of approach since all dimensions of design require redefinition. In this sense this studio is not only offered as a field of synthesizing knowledge that was acquired but also as a field of experimentation and close observation in all range of subjects that constituted the educational process (urban issues, process of planning, construction technology, bioclimatic design, materiality, etc).

Recommended and/or required reading:
Textbooks
  • A history of building types – Nikolaus Pevsner (1976) (theatre, library, workplace)
  • Metric Handbook, Planning and design Data, David Littlefield, Edited by David Adler, Third Edition
References
  • The sustainable office – Andy van de Dobbelsteen (2004)
  • The new office – Francis Duffy (1999)
  • The creative office – Jeremy Myerson and Philip Ross (1999)
  • Working without walls; an insight into transforming government workplace – DEGW (2000)
  • Transforming Cities; revival in the square – Nick Corbett (2004)
  • Urban Forms; the death and life of the urban block – Phlippe Panerai (2004)
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%
Two Intermediate Assignments30%
Final Assignment60%
Language of instructionGreek
Work placement(s)NO

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