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Course Catalog 2012-2013
ARS-3426 Housing Design, Professional Course, 12 cr |
Person responsible
Markku Hedman
Lessons
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Requirements
Housing Design Professional Course is an advanced design course dealing with contemporary topics of dwelling. Independent work on exercise project. Lectures, seminars/studio meetings, critique session.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation
Learning outcomes
After the course the student is able to analyze new housing solutions and different forms of special housing. The student is able to interpret building regulations and background phenomena concerning housing design and can adapt them in a practical planning task. The student can solve in an architecturally and functionally satisfactory way a rather difficult housing design task which is related to the developing of new housing solutions and typologies. During the course the student is to learn to develop his personal design approach. After the course the student is able to discuss the principals of socially and ethically responsible housing design as well as the principles of sustainable building, and can adapt them in his own design work.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | The development of housing design skills including e.g. dimensioning of apartments, applying regulations and interpreting societal phenomena in design process. | The development of personal design approach | The creation of innovative residential architecture |
| 2. | The completion of a rather difficult housing design task in an architecturally and functionally satisfactory way | The development of new housing typologies or concepts related to housing for special groups or needs | |
| 3. | To gain readiness to develop new types of housing | The design in detailed level and the implementation of structural and technical systems into the design project. |
Evaluation criteria for the course
The design project will be evaluated on scale 0-5. Criteria of evaluation: -relation to surroundings -architetural expression -conceptual solution -functional solutions -character of housing -constructional solutions and material choices
Assessment scale:
Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course
Partial passing:
Additional information about prerequisites
Students should have basic knowledge of housing design before taking the course.
Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)
Correspondence of content
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More precise information per implementation
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| In autumn 2012 we take part in the international student competition ”ARA Asunto 2049”. The competition calls for new ideas and design solutions for social housing in year 2049. The competition area is located in Lahti, Finland. The competition brief can be downloaded: http://www.ara.fi/default.asp?contentid=17351&lan=EN |