Overview
Building Design 1 will introduce you to creative design as a process of investigation, critical observation and experimentation. You will be introduced to the client briefing process as well as to basic aesthetic and sustainable design principles and their application to the design of low rise residential and commercial buildings. By engaging in a series of short design-based projects that involve critiquing, listening consciously, researching and creatively solving design problems, you will learn how to create spatial environments that are conducive to human well-being and that meet stakeholder requirements.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite: BLAR11049 Built Environment Communication and Skills
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2019
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from "Have Your Say" student feedback
I particularly like the way that collaboration is encouraged to provide feedback for the evolving designs. I have learned just as much from the feedback received for my own work as I have listening to feedback given to other students.
The collaborative online feedback sessions will continue to be offered as well as the feedback forums.
Feedback from "Have Your Say" student feedback
The feedback after assignments were excellent and a great learning tool. Pinpointed exactly what was was good and what to work on for the next assignment.
Feedback will be provided in this format in future offerings as well.
Feedback from "Have Your Say" student feedback
The weekly question tasks were directly relevant to the assignments. This subject 100% confirmed that building design is what I want to do.
Weekly activities that help with the assessments will continue to be offered.
Feedback from "Have Your Say" student feedback
It would have helped if I had known how to use a computer program. It took vast amounts of hours to manually draw the required drawings.
A proposal in regards to the incorporation of CAD learning options for Building Design students is currently being reviewed.
- Develop spatial environments that are conducive to human well-being demonstrating experimentation and self-reflection
- Critique designs through the lens of building design processes demonstrating research abilities, conscious communication skills and critical, creative insight into related thought and design processes
- Design environmentally sustainable low rise residential and commercial buildings
- Create aesthetic low rise residential and commercial buildings
- Creatively solve design problems to meet stakeholder requirements.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
1 - Portfolio - 20% | |||||
2 - Portfolio - 40% | |||||
3 - Portfolio - 40% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
1 - Communication | |||||
2 - Problem Solving | |||||
3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
4 - Information Literacy | |||||
5 - Team Work | |||||
6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
8 - Ethical practice | |||||
9 - Social Innovation | |||||
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures |
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
1 - Portfolio - 20% | ||||||||||
2 - Portfolio - 40% | ||||||||||
3 - Portfolio - 40% |
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
s.flowers@cqu.edu.au
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What is the role of the building designer and what is the design process?
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How does the site influence the design of a building?
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How do I design approach, entrance and circulation within the building?
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Review: Spatial relationships within a building
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How do I find a concept and form for a building?
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How do I design the exterior of a building?
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Review: How do I apply all the theory to my design?
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Introduction to commercial building design.
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Concept, circulation and spatial design for commercial buildings
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Spatial relationships within the context of the built environment
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Review: How do I apply all the theory to my design?
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End of Term Review
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1 Portfolio
This assessment item will address the Unit Learning Outcomes 1 and 5.
You will develop a spatial environment that is conducive to human well-being to meet prescribed stakeholder requirements as per an interactive client briefing.
Your submission will be a document containing sketches and plans of your design and written responses to the assessment tasks, the focus of which will relate directly to Topics 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Weekly topic tasks will be available on the Weekly Activity Forum and are to be submitted as part of this assignment via the Moodle portal.
Full and detailed tasks for this assignment and the assignment rubric will be available from the Assessment Block in Moodle.
Further information regarding the assessment will be available on the unit Moodle site.
Week 5 Monday (12 Aug 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
Submission via Moodle portal.
Week 7 Tuesday (3 Sept 2019)
Students will be advised of any adverse circumstances that might delay this.
- creative resolution of design problems to meet stakeholder requirements
- critical thinking and problem solving employing experimentation and self reflection
- Develop spatial environments that are conducive to human well-being demonstrating experimentation and self-reflection
- Creatively solve design problems to meet stakeholder requirements.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Portfolio
This assessment item will address the Unit Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, and 4.
You
will develop a spatial environment that is conducive to human
well-being with a focus on both aesthetic and environmentally sustainable design as per an
interactive client briefing. You will provide feedback to fellow students on draft versions of their designs and gain feedback on your draft versions via the assignment forum.
Your submission will be a document containing sketches and plans of your design and written responses to the assessment tasks. This assessment builds on what you have learnt in Topics 1-4 and relates directly to Topics 5, 6 and 7. Full and detailed tasks for this assignment and the assignment rubric will be available from the Assessment Block in Moodle.
Weekly topic tasks will be available on the Weekly Activity Forum and are to be be
submitted as part of this assignment via the Moodle portal.
Further information regarding the assessment will be available on the unit Moodle site.
Week 8 Monday (9 Sept 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
Submission via Moodle portal.
Week 10 Tuesday (24 Sept 2019)
Students will be advised of any adverse circumstances that might delay this.
- identification and creative resolution of design problems to develop spatial environments conducive to human well-being
- research and evaluation of site constraints in order
to develop an environmentally sustainable building
- critical thinking and problem solving employing experimentation and self reflection to design an environmentally sustainable and aesthetic building
- constructive engagement in online discussion forums using a structured communication process when required
- use of conscious communication skills and critical, creative insight into related thought and design processes
- Develop spatial environments that are conducive to human well-being demonstrating experimentation and self-reflection
- Critique designs through the lens of building design processes demonstrating research abilities, conscious communication skills and critical, creative insight into related thought and design processes
- Design environmentally sustainable low rise residential and commercial buildings
- Create aesthetic low rise residential and commercial buildings
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
- Social Innovation
3 Portfolio
This assessment item will address the Unit Learning Outcomes 2, 3, 4 and 5.
You
will develop a spatial environment that meets stakeholder requirements with a focus on both aesthetic and environmentally
sustainable design. You will provide feedback to fellow
students on draft versions of their designs and gain feedback on your
draft versions via the assignment forum.
Your submission will be a document containing sketches and plans of your design and written responses to the assessment tasks. This assessment builds on what you have learnt in Topics 1-7 and relates directly to Topics 8, 9, 10 and 11. Full and detailed tasks for this assignment and the assignment rubric will be available from the Assessment Block in Moodle.
Weekly topic tasks will be available on the Weekly Activity Forum and are to be be
submitted as part of this assignment via the Moodle portal.
Further information regarding the assessment will be available on the unit Moodle site.
Review/Exam Week Monday (14 Oct 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
Submission via Moodle portal.
Submissions will be returned Tuesday 29 October 2019 unless otherwise advised
Marks will be allocated as specified in the assignment brief in the Assessment Block in Moodle.
Assessment Criteria are based on demonstration of the following:
- identification and creative resolution of design problems to develop spatial environments that meet stakeholder requirements
- research and evaluation of site constraints in order
to develop an environmentally sustainable building
- critical
thinking and problem solving to design an environmentally sustainable and aesthetic
building
- constructive engagement in online discussion forums using a structured communication process when required
- use of conscious communication skills and critical, creative insight into related thought and design processes
- Critique designs through the lens of building design processes demonstrating research abilities, conscious communication skills and critical, creative insight into related thought and design processes
- Design environmentally sustainable low rise residential and commercial buildings
- Create aesthetic low rise residential and commercial buildings
- Creatively solve design problems to meet stakeholder requirements.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
- Social Innovation
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.