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Course Catalog 2013-2014

ARK-43206 Housing Design, Professional Course, 12 cr

Person responsible

Markku Hedman

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
Excercises
 2 h/week
 4 h/week
+2 h/week
+4 h/week


 


 


 
ARK-43206 2013-01 Tuesday 10 - 16, RD203

Requirements

Housing Design Professional Course is an advanced design course dealing with contemporary topics of dwelling. Independent work on exercise project. Lectures, seminars or studio meetings, critique session. An analysis task related to the lectures. In order to pass the course the student needs to: hand in the design project as well as the analysis task in time and attend the studios, seminars and critique session mentioned in the schedule.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

Presentation, argumentation and analysis of the design will be rehearsed in the course as well as team work.

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.    

Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes

The design project will be evaluated on scale 0-5. Criteria of evaluation, unless stated otherwise in the design brief: -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:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Additional information about prerequisites
Students must have basic knowledge and skills on housing design before taking the course.

Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)



Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
ARK-43206 Housing Design, Professional Course, 12 cr ARS-3426 Housing Design, Professional Course, 12 cr  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
ARK-43206 2013-01 In autumn 2013, the topic of the course is housing for persons with intellectual disabilities. The task is to design "dwelling networks" for persons with intellectual disabilities in four Finnish towns. The course is organized in collaboration with ARA (Housing Finance and Development Centre of Finland) and four Finnish towns. The course will include meetings with the town representatives and possibly with the future residents. Previous experience in housing design is a prerequisite for taking this course. The exact course schedule can be found on the Moodle site of the course.   Lectures
Excercises
Other contact teaching
   
Contact teaching: 25 %
Distance learning: 0 %
Self-directed learning: 75 %  

Last modified20.06.2013