12415 (v.4) Architecture Design 401

Area:

Department of Architecture and Interior Architecture

Credits:

50.0

Contact Hours:

6.5

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

1 x 0.5 Hours Weekly

Studio:

3 x 2 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

12409 (v.3) Architecture and Culture 401

Syllabus:

One of the three design studio modules offered in the same semester - urban design, praxis and complex buildings. Urban design - the analysis of urban contexts, urban design considerations, marking. Public spaces between buildings integrated with the designing of new and old buildings and statutory limits on project design. Praxis - a practice-oriented unit incorporating the resolution of an architectural project to an appropriate level of detail. Each project will be tutored by a prominent local architectural practice with the input of various building consultants. The unit will also study the relationship between drawing, specifications, budgets, bills of quantity and contracts. Complex - the design, planning and analysis of building projects selected jointly by staff and students and having an appropriate degree of complexity and size.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

040100 Architecture and Urban Environment (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External