Course syllabus
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ACEX15 Kandidatarbete i Arkitektur och teknik lp3-4 VT25 (15 hp)
Kursen ges av institutionen för Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik
Kontaktuppgifter
Morten Lund morten.mose.lund@gmail.com
Peter Christensson peter.christensson@chalmers.se
Wolfgang Kropp wolfgang.kropp@chalmers.se Lukas Nordström lukas.nordstrom@white.se Mats Ander, examinator mats.ander@chalmers.se
Schedule
Course schedule ( länk till årets schema ) AT3 SCHEDULE 2025 03MAR25.pdf
Architecture and Engineering - an international challenge and a collaborative design process
Since 2009 the Architecture & Civil Engineering program has collaborated with the division of Applied Acoustics integrating the third-year final degree course in Bachelor of Architecture with the fourth-year room acoustics course in Master of Civil Engineering.
Over the years the course has made use of the international student competition by the Acoustical Society of America to give a framework and motivation for the degree course. It has never been mandatory for the students to participate in the competition and the brief. However, with the well-defined presentation format and non-negotiable deadline, the competition is a good preparation for the requirements of professional practices.
Since the competition brief never fully matches the learning objectives and architectural intentions of the Architecture & Civil Engineering BA-course, the competition brief is always expanded with primarily architectural prerequisites when applied in the project brief of the BA-course.
The brief of this year’s ASA competition
The iterative design process
The iterative process is a series of steps that during the progression gradually inform the architectural design proposal. From the initial survey to the end of the first design iteration, the AT students work in groups of two. In the remaining design iterations each group will team up with a Sound of Vibration student. In the final BA exam the students will present their project portfolio individually.
Tutorials
Tutorials with the teachers are the principal teaching situation. They will take place once a week and with a common introduction. Schedules for tutorials are prepared in advance by the students. We aim to give each group a 15-minute time slot. Tutorials will normally take place on Wednesdays.
Course format
Lectures and critiques - lectures and running critiques will take place physically on campus.
Final critique - will be conducted as an auditorium critique in front of a traditional pin-up with the boards.
Group work - the course's assignments are carried out as group work. The groups organize the work themselves within the course syllabus.
Submissions - all submissions are to be handed in digitally in advance.
Learning outcomes
The AT3 BA-course in architecture is the conclusive project of three years of studies in architectural design and engineering. The course emphasize the collaboration of the two distinct professional cultures and the integration of their diverse methodologies. The students will obtain a confident proficiency in the iterative design process where experiments by artistic approaches and investigations of technological performances are integrated into an architectural design proposal. Furthermore, the AT3-students will develop a multifaceted understanding of the fleeting phenomenon of sound applied in room acoustics and a proficiency to express its different qualities in drawings and models.
Examination
The bachelor's thesis begins with a mandatory review of previous completed architectural projects. The completed bachelor's thesis project is communicated by use of physical models, drawings, pictures and text, and is presented and defended orally in two critique seminars.
For the final seminar, several students present their projects in a group, and the project is evaluated by a jury of guest critics from outside the school. Here the emphasis is on the ability to present, discuss, and critically reflect on the results of the work. Great emphasis is given to the students ability to present the proposal in physical models, drawings, images, text, and speech so that it is easily accessible and understandable to the appropriate audience and can serve as the basis for a public debate.
For the BA exam, each student presents his or her work individually, and is evaluated by the examiner and one of thesis supervisors. In addition to the design project itself, the student is also evaluated on the ability to present, discuss, and critically reflect on his or her own working method and the quality achieved; which questions have been asked, which investigations have been made, which alternatives have been found, and what considerations have been made for design decisions. In the bachelor's thesis is included a critical review of other bachelor's thesis projects during the ongoing design process and / or of the presented final proposals.
Course development work
During the course three meetings with the course committee will be conducted. The first meeting will be in connection to the course introduction, the second in mid March , and the third in connection to the course evaluation meeting in quarter 1, Fall-25.
Proposed course representatives are:
Lisa Davidsson
Susanna Durne
August Johannnesson
Leo Klevenås Kraft
Malin Svensson
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