Architectural Design Major Project - TMA1452

Assessment 1: Project work

Presentation of proposed direction for the major project, which includes: aims, proposed outputs, rationale for project outcomes and time management/project planning.

Project wrk

Assessment 1: Portfolio

Portfolio

Assessment 2: Written Assignment

Written Assignment

The Major Project is the culmination of your research and development in Architectural Design. In this module you will undertake a comprehensive design project of your own choice that must be at a level of complexity and depth of resolution comparable to that which pertains in advanced contemporary practice.
The Major Project addresses critical issues relating to contemporary Architectural Design. It is a focused interrogation of technological, theoretical and design contexts and manufacturing processes relevant to the Architectural Design subject area. The Major Project provides an opportunity for in-depth research into your area of interest and the development of design methods and processes that support this. You will work to research, develop, critically reflect, refine and communicate both your methodological approach, design outcomes and your conclusions.
You will build upon your project proposal to develop a final stage framework to realise your outcomes and this may include group work subject to negotiation with your specialist supervisor. The Final Major Project will bring together the aesthetic, functional and professional features in the development of a comprehensive Architectural Design proposal that will explore and address issues of urban context, spatial practices, form generation and technical resolution, modes of representation and testing, the development of sustainable typologies, construction processes including, innovations in, and the ethical use of, materials.
You are required to develop an innovative, rigorous and robust Architectural Design project informed by a range of technological, social, cultural, ecological, theoretical and professional contexts. You will present your ideas through a design portfolio that may include drawings, illustrations, models, installations, prototypes, films, animations, interactive media, performance and written text.

School of Arts and Humanities

Beanland, Christopher. (2021) Unbuilt: Radical Visions of a Future that Never Arrived’, London: Batsford Books
Clear, Nic., Spiller, Neil.(eds) (2014). ‘Educating Architects: How Tomorrows Architects Learn Today’, London: Thames and Hudson.
Evans, Robin. (1995) ‘The Projective Cast: Architecture and its Three Geometries’, Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
Forty, Adrian. (2004). ‘Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture’, London: Thames and Hudson.
Galilee, Beatrice. (2021). ‘Radical Architecture of the Future’, New York, London: Phaidon Press.
Spiller, Neil. (2007). ‘Visionary Architecture: Blueprints of the Modern Imagination’, London: Thames and Hudson.

Architecture

TMA1452 - Architectural Design Major Project

Architectural Design Major Project

Assess the currency, relevance and suitability of your project (individual or group) within the subject specific context.

Systematically appraise and demonstrate how subject knowledge is advanced through research development to produce original outcomes in Architectural Design.

Generate advanced design proposals in a highly resolved and creative piece of Architectural Design responsive to an innovative and ethical use of form, materials and manufacturing processes.

Critically evaluate and apply selected techniques applicable to the design, development and realisation of contemporary Architectural Design. 

Systematically plan, organise and project manage your outcomes, using appropriate formats.

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.