Program Overview

University of Edinburgh Program Information

Introduction

The University of Edinburgh offers a range of degree programs, including the Architectural Design: Any Place course.

Course Overview

Architectural Design: Any Place (ARCH08006)

This course is thematically focused on circumstances and conditions beyond the local, considering issues of foreignness and distance. The course explores the city as a condition for architecture, investigating everyday practices that constitute the experiences of the contemporary city.

Course Details

• Credit level: SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate)
• Availability: Available to all students
• SCQF Credits: 20
• ECTS Credits: 10
• Summary: This course moves away from ideas of locality to consider issues of foreignness and distance, supplemented by a broader interest in the city as a condition for architecture.

Course Description

Students work through a series of studio exercises to explore these themes in architectural terms, developing skills in the manipulation of form, volume, and built fabric. The exercises support the development of skills in creative agency and design inquiry within broader frameworks of accountability and consequence.

Entry Requirements

• Pre-requisites: Students MUST have passed Architectural Design: Elements (ARCH08001) AND Architectural Design: Assembly (ARCH08004)
• Co-requisites: It is RECOMMENDED that students also take Architectural Design: In Place (ARCH08007) AND Technology and Environment: Applications (ARCH08008)

Prohibited Combinations and Other Requirements

• Prohibited Combinations: None
• Other requirements: None
• Additional Costs: Field trip travel, printing and reprographic charges, photographic costs, drawing and modelling materials, digital storage, etc.

Course Delivery Information

• Academic year 2021/22, Not available to visiting students (SS1): Quota 105, Course Start Semester 2
• Academic year 2021/22, Available to all students (SV1): Quota 1, Course Start Semester 1
• Timetable: Total Hours 200, including Lecture Hours, Seminar/Tutorial Hours, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours, Fieldwork Hours, Feedback/Feedforward Hours, Formative Assessment Hours, Summative Assessment Hours, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours

Assessment and Feedback

• Assessment: Written Exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical Exam 0%
• Feedback: All students will receive formative assessment, normally mid-way through the semester, in the form of written feedback. Feedback sheets will be issued within 15 days of the hand-in of the relevant assessment exercise.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1. Demonstrate ability to develop architectural designs that appropriately respond to specified non-local conditions and that integrate an explicit investigation through research.
2. Demonstrate capacity to synthesize a range of programmatic components, formal, spatial and technical strategies of modest complexity within an architectural design that responds to specified urban conditions.
3. Demonstrate ability to critically explore and effectively communicate design ideas and propositions individually and as part of a team, in a range of digital and analogue formats, including portfolio.

Additional Information

• Reading List: None
• Graduate Attributes and Skills: Not entered
• Additional Class Delivery Information: There is one main studio day which will be structured according to the design projects being undertaken. A mixture of methods will be used, supervised learning, directed learning, and independent learning.
• Keywords: Studio