Module manager: Professor Gehan Selim (interim)
Email: G.Selim@leeds.ac.uk
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BA/BEng Architecture, Architectural Engineering or related degrees
This module is not approved as an Elective
This module develops students ability to design and communicate complex architectural projects in response to real-world contexts and constraints. It integrates creative design thinking with, environmental, social, and professional considerations, enabling students to produce innovative, responsible proposals. Emphasis is placed on critical enquiry, inclusive and sustainable practice, and clear communication.
1. Analyse global, cultural, social, environmental, technological, and economic factors to inform architectural design decisions that respond appropriately to context, climate challenges, biodiversity, and social value.
2. Develop innovative architectural concepts that respond to client, user, site, environmental, structural, and contextual requirements through critical and creative design approaches.
3. Produce architectural proposals that integrate artistic, spatial, environmental, structural, material.
4. Design projects effectively, demonstrating organised workflows, technical competence, and professional standards.
5. Communicate architectural ideas clearly and critically through a range of visual, written, and verbal media suitable for diverse audiences.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Prepare and present a complex architectural design project responding to a defined context and brief, using a range of media.
2. Consider global, cultural, social, technological, and economic factors, social sustainability, social value, inclusive design, and climate change.
3. Demonstrate a critical and creative approach to architectural design. Generate and develop design concepts that respond to client, user, site, environmental, and contextual requirements.
4. Produce designs that integrate artistic, spatial, environmental, social, and experiential aspects.
5. Analyse stakeholder needs and constraints to develop appropriate briefs, and apply sustainable, responsible ethical practice, diversity, and inclusion.
6. Develop designs that comply with regulations and consider regenerative design and ethical sourcing.
7. Understand obligations to users through building safety principles.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills:
a. Critical thinking
b. Creativity
c. Digital creation
d. Decision making.
- Design process, communication, and execution
- Sustainable, Inclusive & Regenerative Built Environments
- Ethics and social responsibility
Methods of assessment
The assessment details for this module will be provided at the start of the academic year
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 8 | 2 | 16 |
| Practicals | 10 | 5 | 50 |
| Fieldwork | 3 | 8 | 24 |
| Private study hours | 360 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 90 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 450 | ||
- Feedback provided weekly during the studio time.
- Verbal feedback following in-class presentations (formative).
- Summative, via Minerva 15 days after submission.
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Last updated: 30/04/2026
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