Module Descriptors
ARCHITECTURE FOR CONCEPT DESIGN
FILM50103
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 5
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Ian Naylor
Email: I.Naylor@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 36
Independent Study Hours: 114
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
  • COURSEWORK weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Additional Assessment Details
One assessment with two components (Learning Outcomes 1, 2 and 3)

- A written report (Maximum 2000 words) appraising computer generated concepts
Module Indicative Content
Students will learn the principles of architecture in order to create innovative concepts that translate directly into functional models of buildings and environments.

The students will learn the fundamentals of architecture in the form of the following
Function
- Use
- Circulation
- Line of approach
Firmness
- Post and lintel
- Arches
- Frames (3d post and lintel)
- Vaults and Domes
- Trusses and Space frames
- Shells
- Suspensions
- Membranes And inflated structures
Beauty
Proportion and Scale
- Golden section
- Structural proportion
- Classical Order
- Renaissance Theory
- Visual/Human Scale

Interior design and population of environment
Digital sketching of environments
Lighting of environments
Module Learning Strategies
3 hour lecture/lab taught in an interactive manner
(1:20)3
Module Resources
Access to the web and library, plus general computing facilities.
Halflife 2 Engine
3D Studio Max
Corel Painter
Photoshop

Module Special Admissions Requirements
CE00079-1 Introduction to 3D Applications or equivalent
Module Texts
Architecture Form, Space and Order (Paperback) by Francis D.K. Ching
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc; 2Rev Ed edition (31 Dec 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471286168
- ISBN-13: 978-0471286165

A Visual Dictionary of Architecture by Francis D.K Ching
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc; New Ed edition (14 Nov 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471288217
- ISBN-13: 978-0471288213