ARCT08055 2022 Advanced Architecture Technology 3

In this module students will undertake a technology dissertation to present a detailed study on a topic of choice. The dissertation provides the student with an opportunity to undertake an independent research project where they will apply the academic, digital and technical skills gained throughout the advanced technology modules.

Students will carry out an independent investigation into an area of their choosing (from a list of available topics related to environmental design, building energy performance, construction, sustainable refurbishment, environmental material science), leading to either a theoretical or design-based report. The dissertation will include a research methodology, proposal development, design of a research strategy, literature reviews, data gathering, analysis, presentation, writing up and presentation.

Students will also learn about interdisciplinary collaboration in architecture and the cross-disciplinary dialogue required within the overall framework of the design process. Through a series of lectures with invited guest speakers from diverse disciplines across the construction sector, students will understand the structures, relationships, co-ordination and integration of a great deal of complex information, procedures and systems in delivering a design project.

MODULE OBJECTIVES:

• Enable the student to apply the knowledge about technology, design and construction issues that you have gained from the taught components to develop your dissertation project.
• Enable the student to develop research skills and the ability and skills to review and summarise the available literature and information.
• Enable the student to produce a coherent and logically argued piece of writing that demonstrates competence in research and the ability to operate independently.
• Enable the student to address issues of research design, methodology and theoretical arguments, and locate a piece of research within these.
• To enable the student to develop skills in independent inquiry.

Aimed specifically at students on BSc and taught Masters programmes who are embarking on research for the first time, this book is clear with explanatory text supported by numerous examples illustrating good practice.

Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century. As we witness the increasingly turbulent effects of climate change, the multiple challenges of resource depletion and wage stagnation, we know that our current ways of living are not resilient. Our urban infrastructures, our buildings, our economies, our ways of managing and governing are still too tightly bound to models of unrestrained free-market growth, individualism and consumerism. Research has shown that the crises arising from climate change will become increasingly frequent and increasingly severe. It is also known that the effects of climate change are not evenly distributed across places and people, and neither are the resources needed to meet these challenges. We will need specific responses in place that engage with, and emerge from, citizens ourselves. This volume takes resilience as a transformative concept to ask where and what architecture might contribute. Bringing together cross-disciplinary perspectives from architecture, urban design, art, geography, building science and psychoanalysis, it aims to open up multiple perspectives of research, spatial strategies and projects that are testing how we can build local resilience in preparation for major societal challenges, defining the position of architecture in urban resilience discourse.

This book focuses on the intelligent application of advanced information technology tools (such as CAD and KBES) to design and planning in construction. It describes and explains the current applications of computer tools, presents new ideas for their use in design and planning processes, and in particular, concentrates on the preliminary design stage. Computer Integrated Planning and Design for Construction aims to demonstrate the implementation of these ideas and uncover the extraordinary opportunities for design improvement as a result.

Construction, architecture and engineering projects are complex undertakings, involving a temporary grouping of people and companies, with different agendas and experience, coming together to achieve a project goal. This book investigates the dynamics of the relationships between individuals involved in architecture, engineering and construction projects. It combines a structured theoretical framework, derived from social psychology and mainstream management theory, with case studies and research from the built environment sector. Focusing on how people interact, communicate and work together, it examines how best to manage the interdisciplinary relationships that form and reform during the project life cycle. The book covers vital areas of project management, whose importance has recently come to be recognized, and will be valuable for students at both undergraduate and graduate level. Practitioners will also find it a useful insight into the social aspect of project management, with implications and applications that apply to all projects in the built environment sector.

Despite co-ordination being the principal focus of the Lead Designers role, there is very little written about how to undertake these duties. What tools can the Lead Designer use to address the many complexities of developing a design as part of an iterative process? How can the Lead Designer redefine what they do using a digital world to provide profoundly different and new services? This book analyses at all of these questions, setting out how the Lead Designer can perform effectively and efficiently in the digital world, addressing clients new whole life project requirements and new ways of constructing and assembling buildings. Managing increasing numbers of specialists in the construction process requires experience to ensure that their contributions are properly managed and produced at the right time. This book considers this challenge. It will also consider how the Lead Designer can effectively lead and manage health and safety aspects and risks (the principal designer role in UK regulations). This book replaces the current publication, Leading the Team: An Architects Guide to Design Management, published in 2011. It has been revamped to accommodate BIM and the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 as well as fundamentally adjusting it to address the Lead Designer role and the design management techniques that support this.

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see module handbook

see module handbook

Refer to Architecture Space and Resource provision Handbook.

Dedicated studio space for each student registered on the academic year of the BArch programme.

Including but not limited to: 

Drawing Board, Layout space, wall space, drawing/model storage, materials storage.

Printing and scanning facilities (A0, A1, A2, A3).

Model Making benches, cutting surfaces, hand tools, lazer cutters, 3Dprinters

Modelmaking Workshop

General and Archive storage.