Dare to Build 2021

Course description:

ACE135 & ACE160, Dare to Build

7.5 credits, Summer 2021

Objective

True (social, economic and environmental) sustainable development is inherently cross-disciplinary and urgent. Thus, there is a need for integrated and transformative solutions fostering collaborations and shared learning between disciplines such as architecture and civil engineering. The aim of this course is to provide students with a multi-disciplinary practice-based learning environment, where students are involved in the CDIO methodology (conceive, design, implement, operate) to realize a project into a full-scale built result. This provides students relevant skills to enter their working life, such as effective communication across disciplinary borders, putting one’s knowledge and abilities into a real context, and having the capacity to handle complex problems both in a technical design process as well as in a building process. In addition, the course aims  at developing the necessary skills to engage with end users and local stakeholders to create a built environment that fosters social inclusion and addresses the most important local needs as well as the larger issues we face today. It is important to lift these issues out of theory and into practiced based examples, showing that real change can be simultaneously made and learned.

Learning outcomes

Project description and brief

This course has a major focus on the project task, developed in collaboration with external stakeholders and as a second stage of a student project developed in the course ARK324 Design and Planning for Social Inclusion in the Autumn of 2020.  The choice of project for the Dare to build course was done after an assessment based on the course’s learning outcomes, the current design development, the anchor with stakeholders, the budget-feasibility, the time-feasibility, the ease of permitting the fun factor, and the relevance in social impact.

This year’s project is described in detail in a separate document called PROJECT BRIEF

Examiners and teachers

Chalmers
Examiner ACE135: Emílio da Cruz Brandão, brandao@chalmers.se

Examiner ACE160: Robert Jockwer,

Teacher: Yutaka Goto, yutaka@chalmers.se

Teacher: Tabita Nilsson, tabita@chalmers.se

Teacher: Peter Lindblom, peter.lindblom@chalmers.se

Teacher: Shea Hagy, shea.hagy@chalmers.se

 

Guest Teacher: Larry Toups, toupslarry@gmail.com

External (building phase)
Tutor: Sam Carvalho, samueldiascarvalho@gmail.com

Tutor: Bruno Gonçalves

Tutor:

*You can access detailed contact information on all those involved here.

Schedule information

The daily schedule is between approximately 8:00-17:15 with slight variations depending on the day and task.

The first week will include lectures, concept design, detailed drawings, construction schedule creation, as well as material and budget lists, concluding in the creation of a comprehensive deign manual to be used during the building weeks.

See course schedule details in the GOOGLE CALENDAR linked on canvas or in the Canvas calendar.

Course’s location

The first week (week 23) of the course will take place virtually via zoom

The following 4 weeks ( weeks 24-27) of the course will be on-site in Bergsjön.

*Note that in the beginning of week 24 (June 14th) we will meet on Chalmers' premises in Hammarkullen (Hammarkulletorget 62B)

Literature

Brause, C., 2016. The Designer’s Field Guide to Collaboration. Routledge.

Crawley, E., Malmqvist, J., Östlund, S. and Brodeur, D., 2007. Rethinking Engineering Education-The CDIO Approach.

Hailey, C., 2016. Design/build with Jersey Devil: A Handbook for Education and Practice. Chronicle Books.

Kara, H., Georgoulias, A. and Silvetti, J. eds., 2012. Interdisciplinary Design: New Lessons from Architecture and Engineering. Actar Publishers.

Olsen, C. and Mac Namara, S., 2014. Collaborations in architecture and engineering. Routledge.

Pressman, A., 2014. Designing Relationships: the art of collaboration in architecture. Routledge.

Lambert, L. 2020. Food as Evidence of Colonialism and the capitalocene with Cooking Sections. The Funambulist #31

Kattan, K. 2020. Cooking Palestinian food: on indigenous herbs, craft and community by chef Fadi Kattan. The Funambulist #31

Tirado von der Pahlen, C. 2019. Climate change, the food commons and human health. Routledge Handbook of Food as a Commons.

De Schutter, O. et al. 2019. Food as commons: Towards a new relationship between the public the civic and the private. Routledge Handbook of Food as a Commons.

Changes from last year

Last year's Dare to Build followed an emergency plan of 3 weeks of design and 1 week of building, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, Dare to Build returns to its original structure with 1 week of intensive design and 4 weeks of building, with reserved time within the building phase for the individual assignments.

Form of examination

Grading: UG – Pass, Fail

To pass the course the following is required:

• Attendance and active participation at lectures/seminars
• Active participation in group work, presentations and cross critics
• Delivery of course assignments of sufficient quality (fulfilling the requirements regarding content and presentation of the assignments)
• Attendance and active participation in construction of the project. To ensure the steady progress and completion of the project, it is crucial that the building team is 100% present on site. If, however, you will not be able to join part(s) of the building phase it is necessary to send an email , latest June 7th, to the teachers describing in detail your situation. If reasonable, the teachers will assign you work to make up for the absence. Note that more than 50% of unjustified or total absence from the building phase means that you cannot pass the course.
  

The course compulsory assignments are structured and examined as seen in the ASSIGNMENTS page on canvas.

* For the course syllabi, you can visit the following pages: ACE135 - architects, ACE160 - engineers