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Technical Dissertation | Grad Dip Stage 2 . Semester 1 . 2008/2009
Tutor: Nancy Diniz
Output: Dissertation (Integrated with design project, independent research)
Scope & Aims
1. The Technical Dissertation is intended to evaluate the students’ ability to carry out independent research in technical design issues and systems relevant to building and architectural design.
2. The student is expected to identify a significant technological problem in an area of their design project.
3. The study will be based on precedent studies before proposing original solutions to identified problems related to constructional/engineering performance issues.
4. The dissertation is to include analytical and assembly diagrams/drawings not exceeding 5.000 words.
At the end of this module and through their technical dissertation, students are expected to:
a. Frame the emergence of new architectural opportunities allowed by digital technologies within the history of representation processes, and the traditions of design and construction in architecture;
b. Be familiar with the main principles and taxonomies behind the new design, engineering and manufacturing technologies of their individual projects;
c. Formulate critical arguments when they evaluate or discuss computing applications in contemporary architecture, as well as future tendencies (technological, methodological, theoretical, productive…) in the field.
d. Explore the processes leading to technological innovation in material objects and the particular role of the prototype in the design of artefacts in different scales.
e. We strongly suggest the dissertation to involve technical experimentation (digitally or laboratory) based or involving prototypes, fieldwork, to verify the technical findings.
Nancy Diniz, Sep 2008.
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