Bachelor of Architecture Honours

Outcomes

1. Employ design method and qualitative and quantitative research methods and independent research to formulate and evaluate sustainable architectural construction and design theories relating to responsible conservation, housing, sustainable and urban architectural development###
2. Employ and formulate appropriate problem solving methods, skills and tools, including historical and theoretical research, computer aided design, technical drawings, analysis, two and three dimensional modelling, simulation, and information handling, to organise inter-related theoretical, design and construction problems related to urbanity, conservation, sustainability and housing###
3. Design and appraise an appropriate design concept and rational and execute a competent design of a simple multi story building, based on parameters and constraints developed through independent research, which are sensitive to issues of environment and sustainability, as well as cultural issues in a responsible, appropriate and economical manner in an urban, a sub-urban or rural context###
4. Synthesise various and diverse research relating to architectural theory, history, and basic spatial aspects of contemporary urban, sustainability, housing and conservation approaches within urban environments in an analytical and constructive, critical manner###
5. Illustrate and communicate effectively independent research relating to investigations into the history and theory of architecture, and construction and design problem solving through academic and professional oral, visual and/or written conversion and presentation techniques in a verity of mediums and in two and three dimensions###
6. Differentiate and integrate knowledge of contemporary urban settlement and theoretical thought in architecture, relating to sustainable and responsible architectural place-making###
7. Analyse and organise contemporary urban, sustainably, conservation and housing theories, design methods and construction techniques### apply these theories, design methods and construction techniques to highly complex urban environments### 8.Identify and analyse the complexities involved when choosing and utilising normative architectural design approach and construction practice in complex, culturally and historically diverse urban and human environments with sensitivity to urban aspects###
8. Describe and question the appropriateness of a theoretical application or design and construction interventions by critically assessing the historical, cultural and urban relationships###
9. Analyse and integrate information from historical and theoretical resources, as well as architectural precedent and case studies in order to produce design and construction solutions relating to urban, sustainability, housing or conservation issues###
10. Integrate architectural design and construction with the elements of the human ecological landscape (landscape specific to man, place, time and culture) and manage design and construction within the human ecological system through an understanding of the delicate, diverse and unique nature of each human ecological landscape###
11. Employ and responsible evaluate the human ecological landscape as systems that impact on architecture, and to diagnose diversity of and within unique human ecological landscapes###
12. Investigate and structure the relationship between the natural and the built environment taking into account landscapes and environmental structures in basic terms in an analytical, constructive and critical manner###
13. Manage the basic spatial, functional and aesthetical aspects appropriate to urban architecture concentrating specifically on responsible solutions for conservation, housing, urbanity and sustainability###
14. Compare and structure construction methods and uses for materials related to simple multi story building while managing the demands of context, local resources and appropriate technologies that harmonise with the environment, which influence the construction of a building###
15. Devise durable, cost-effective, climate responsive construction details, basic structural concepts pertaining to buildings and research relevant to construction methods and materials### 17.Prepare a set of working drawings (including component and material specifications) as part of a set of contract documents of a complex building to acceptable practice standards which illustrates durable, cost-effective, climate-responsive construction systems and details sensitive to the contextual language of the design concept###
16. Employ national building regulations and local authority approval requirements###
17. Identify and interpret the contents of the various building contracts, the terminology and basic concepts and principles of architectural business practice, and the administrative and logistical support systems in a practice.

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