Module Code - Title:
AR4007
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DESIGN STUDIO 4A
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
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Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
In order to facilitate more extensive and, at the same time, more focused design projects and adequately comprehensive thesis projects, credits awarded to Design Studio 4a and 4b increase to 18 credits while the number of parallel modules is reduced
Syllabus:
In Y4 students start a personal pursuit; they must - through their design projects and their research work - relate to the world of architecture in their own personal way. Students are expected and asked to voice their position in architecture, to find their direction through architectural design. Students develop a method of research and allocate significant time to the research part of the curriculum. The architectural project is tightly allied to construction and the physicality of building; construction technology is an important part of the years work.
A research led project in the autumn semester opens the expanse of architectural intelligence into circumscribed cultural and environmental fields. Students develop a fluency in the means of making of and thinking through things in terms of structure, technology, and environment to the point where they can rise above the practicalities and conceptualise as well.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Conduct research in a precise way, collecting information and analysing it through drawings with insight;
Express through plans a clear spatial idea that is well resolved in terms of its architectural qualities;
Demonstrate through sections a clear understanding of space, structure, and environment;
Evidence through detail drawings a clear understanding of material, structure and environment in their relation to architectural space.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Resolve a design problem with complex societal demands;
Demonstrate technological competence within the development of the project, and high level of technical resolution;
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Create careful and precise analytical drawings;
Describe a project fully through drawings (scale 1:500-1:50), well-made and accurate models, perspectives, and other three-dimensional information;
Produce (sectional) drawings at scale 1:20 that competently define the proposed building and the related understanding of building technology.
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Module Leader:
Ger.Carty@ul.ie