Subject Specific Learning Outcomes
Successful completion of this year will mean that students partially demonstrate the academic learning requirements of the Architects Registration Board (ARB) Competences to Masters level. These are shown as codes with brackets [ARB] referencing the relevant accreditation clauses. As part of this, students will show:
1: General Contextual Knowledge:
[ARB CK1-7]
How diverse social, economic and technological factors affecting wider society affect architects and engineers as part of construction industry processes, including environmental and social sustainability, climate change and biodiversity. How these factors influence principles of the design and construction of buildings, the material and environmental systems and processes involved in design, use and reuse/dismantling. [CK1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
2: For Design, students will be able to:
[ARB D1-12]
Prepare and present architectural design projects of diverse scale, complexity, and type in a variety of contexts, using a range of media, responding critically to briefs of diverse scales and types, accounting for client, user, site, environmental and contextual requirements. [Part D1, 2]
Demonstrate a critical and creative approach to architectural designs that integrate the artistic, spatial, environmental, social and experiential aspects of a building with the technical requirements of its construction, including strategies for structure, construction technology, materials, services, ventilation, thermal environment and lighting and acoustics that are appropriate to a project’s brief and context, using an integrated approach to the solution of complex problems. [Part D3,4,5]
Produce designs that consider the relationship between people and built environment, between buildings and their context, and the need to relate buildings and the spaces between them to human needs, inclusivity, user experience and scale, understanding the consequences of design decision making on value to clients and communities over the life-cycle of built projects and the costs to the environment. [Part D5,6]
Propose design solutions that achieve or exceed relevant performance standards and requirements and understand the implications and benefits of regenerative design solutions and ethical sourcing and supply chains throughout the life cycle of architectural projects that meet or go beyond minimum standards. [Part D7,8,9]
Understand the implications and benefits of working with existing buildings including potential for re-use and retrofit, and the resulting environmental impact. [D10]
Prepare and document designs that demonstrate appropriate consideration of fire safety, life safety and wellbeing and inclusivity of users, the public and building constructors. [D11]
Use appropriate digital systems for creating, modelling, processing, presenting, and sharing design, building and project information [D12]
Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the discipline;
- work that is typically both evaluative and creative;
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