TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT
3 years full-time
Year 1
In your first year, you will be introduced to the multidisciplinary nature of the industry and the role of the Architectural Technologist within this domain, focusing on small domestic scale buildings that create awareness around the core skills, knowledge and themes of the discipline.
We’ll spend time producing freehand and technical drawings, learn how to carry out basic structural calculations, and explore 2D drafting techniques using industry-standard software.
As the designer plays an important role in the wider construction process, we also learn about common materials and construction methods, with a particular focus on domestic buildings; site surveying; and information management and reporting.
Modules are subject to change and availability.
Core modules
- BIM and Dimensional Control
- Technology and Structures
- Construction Technology
- Sustainable Design Studio 1
- Health & Safety
Year 2
This year you will continue to build your skills and knowledge whilst introducing more comprehension, critical analysis and problem-solving skills.
You will work within groups to a live brief with professional presentations on options appraisal to a live client panel. You will be provided with an understanding of the relationship between sustainable design, building technology and environmental performance when designing and adapting both historic and modern buildings. Understanding the various aspects can be complex and has a very real influence on the generation of architectural design.
You will also get hands-on training with some of the most up-to-date industry software, creating virtual models of residential and commercial buildings and developing your understanding of Building Information Modelling (BIM).
We get lots of practical experience on site, too. We’ll explore a current site to understand how all its elements work together. You’ll also carry out a site survey, study legal and planning constraints, and look at sustainability and environmental building performance.
And finally, we’ll further our knowledge of the construction industry focusing this year on commercial and industrial buildings.
Modules are subject to change and availability.
Core modules
- Advanced Technology and Environmental Impact
- Ruskin Module
- Design Procedures
- Digital Design Technology
- Sustainable Design Studio 2
- Building Inspection and Analysis
Year 3
Your final year is all about preparing you to work as an architectural technologist.
You will have the opportunity to further explore sustainable building technology and environmental performance strategically as individuals and within groups developing detailed solutions that are applied and can be tested methodically against given criteria.
There’s also a focus on research and evaluation. We explore issues that need to be considered when planning and managing a building development, and look at building conversion and adaptation.
We continue to examine building design and production – including how you can select and justify different designs, approaches and materials.
The degree culminates with the Comprehensive Dissertation Module that that increases the tempo on previous learning and experience with more synthesising of skills and knowledge around a student developed Major Design Project that sees the final year students develop their own design methodically to the 2020 Plan of Works stages 1-5. This simultaneously involves a comprehensive research project around a chosen well-defined industry problem that can theoretically underpin the design project. Also running in tandem with the individual technical design development, students systematically analyse the technology and professional processes of a modern building, then draw them to levels that test and enhance critical thinking in preparation for their own final technical design where a range of professional criteria are applied and assessed.
Modules are subject to change and availability.
Core modules
- Construction Technology and Innovation
- Project Evaluation and Development
- Building Pathology
- Conversion and Adaptation of Buildings
- Comprehensive Major Project (Dissertation)
