ARC1102 · Architectural performance 1

Overview

This unit introduces fundamental principles of sustainable architectural design focusing on the investigation and combination of appropriate materials, structures, fabrication methods and component systems as they apply to building construction and performance. This includes the study of material properties, historical context, environmental sustainability and impacts, and involves assessment of architectural performance and application in design.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

100% in-semester assessment

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Describe elementary principles of common building materials and assembly systems and their structural and environmental performance within a small scale building;
2. Apply, test and communicate elementary principles of circular design and bioclimatic design in relation to a small scale building;
3. Combine understanding of assembly systems with conventions of architectural documentation through digital modelling of a small scale building;
4. Work collaboratively in teams to document and analyse an assigned case study building;
5. Reflect on the ethical role of the architect, architectural design and realised built work in supporting sustainable futures;
6. Employ research, analysis and representation of precedents, material testing and experimentation as ways of building knowledge.

Workload

12 hours per week including 4 contact hours plus 8 hours of independent study.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.