Master of Architecture Design Thesis - TMA1180

Assessment 1: Project work

Formative assessment, which will normally take the form of formative feedback, will be conducted at the Interim Reviews of each stage of the project, prior to resubmission of the whole work for Summative assessment at the end of the module.

Project work

Assessment 1: Portfolio

An integrated Design Project presentationA 30-minute oral examination.
Must pass all elements of assessment.

Portfolio

In this module you will undertake a comprehensive architectural design project of your own choice but which must be agreed with the Module Tutor and that must be at a level of complexity and depth of resolution comparable to that which pertains in architectural practice.
Upon your own initiative you will select a location in a European Region, and develop a design proposal which is responsive and appropriate to the cultural and environmental context of your chosen location, whilst identifying and responding to the heritage and cultural traditions as evident in the established Urban fabric of Europe.
As such your final design should assert an architectural narrative, explore architectural typology, satisfy predetermined user requirements, resolve spatial organisation, and be made manifest by considered deployment of appropriate technologies.

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TMA1180 - Master of Architecture Design Thesis

Master of Architecture Design Thesis

be able to identify the parameters of a complex design problem and develop a clear design strategy to achieve an appropriate solution.

be able to evaluate and apply a comprehensive range of visual, oral and written media to test, analyse and critically appraise and explain design proposals and to communicate ideas and information in a sophisticated and appropriate professional manner.



be able to generate complex design proposals showing understanding of current architectural issues, originality in the application of subject knowledge to produce a comprehensive architecture design which satisfies the objectives of a brief in a highly resolved and creative design solution responsive and sensitive to the climate, culture and context of architecture and urban design in a European country.

be able to demonstrate ability to resolve the technical design of a complex architecture to a level of detail comparable to that which pertains in architectural practice and that reduces to the minimum practicable the impact of the architecture on the local and global environment and, where appropriate, to test new hypotheses and speculations.