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Course Catalog 2013-2014
ARK-43206 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 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:
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
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More precise information per implementation
| Implementation | Description | Methods of instruction | Implementation |
| 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 % |