YEARBOOK 2015 - 2016 | XJTLU DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

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ARC410
Design Studio 4
Individual Briefs
2015-2016 YEARBOOK Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
Material Library prepared for the Masters Thesis Exhibition
Level 4
( Year 2 | Semester 2 )
Module Credits
15
Module Leader
Christian Gänshirt
Teaching Team
Pierre Alain Croset
Christiane M. Herr
Glen Wash
Number of Students
6
In architectural education the final design studio is of special importance.
Here the students are expected to demonstrate the full range of
skills and abilities they have acquired over the years of their studies
at university, as well as through internships and study trips. Now they
are presenting themselves as fully educated architects, putting forward
an architectural statement that expresses their personal interests and
marks their individual position in the field of architectural culture.
At this level, students are required to demonstrate self-reliance in
the framing of architectural problems and in the research required to
propose viable solutions to them. Building on the design and research
outcomes achieved in the previous semester, students address an individually
chosen design thesis project, resolving design and research challenges
identified in the thesis prospectus written at the end of Semester
3. The outcome is a self-contained thesis design project supported by a
thesis dissertation written in the parallel module ARC408. Effectively,
the work produced at this very special moment of life has two objectives:
it concludes and summarises years of study, and clearly addresses the
wider professional public, and enables a new voice to be heard for the
first time.
This subject will be offered in the 2016-2017 Academic Year.
Level 04 – Year 2
M Arch Des Programme