ARCT10160

Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate an ability to carefully observe and record objects and environments, with an appropriate use of scale and measurement

2. Demonstrate the skills required (such as hand-drawing, hardline drawing, surveying, model-making, digital drawing) to complete the Drawing & Making briefs to a satisfactory level

3. Demonstrate an understanding of how to use the language and conventions of architectural representation to describe a building, space or object.

4. Demonstrate an ability to succinctly collate material for a portfolio

Indicative Module Content:

Drawing & Making is taught in weekly on Tuesdays in Richview effectively for the full day, broken into three sessions over the day. (Introductory talk, Workshop, Pin-up & discussion).

In 2024, the weekly sessions will include: Introduction to drawing, orthographic projection and model-making, drawing techniques, observational exercises, Sketchbooks (history of sketchbooks with examples, tools and techniques to use in your own sketchbook) survey methodology, hardline drawing, model-making, digital drawing with Rhino, scanning and presenting your work digitally for portfolio.

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Approaches to Teaching & Learning:
- Active, task based Learning/Studio based learning
- Lectures and Talks
- Student Presentations
- Peer review and discussion
- Reflective Learning

Drawing & Making is taught in weekly on Tuesdays in Richview effectively for the full day, broken into three sessions over the day. (Introductory talk, Workshop, Pin-up & discussion)


Each week, there will be a brief issued for the work to be made that day . Each brief aims to explore and develop the fundamental representational skills required to develop your design work in the Architectural Design Studio modules. Each brief builds on the last, so that by the end of term, each student will have a portfolio of work that demonstrates these core skills, as outlined by the Learning Outcomes for the module.


The brief will be introduced with a lecture or talk, giving context and background, and then followed by workshops where students will work in the same space as the teaching staff on the tasks set by the brief. During these workshops, staff will discuss your work in progress with you in small groups , 1:1 and occasional larger group discussions. Towards the end of the day, there will be a pin up of work completed and group discussions on the work.

The sessions are carefully structured so that it is possible to complete the work required by the brief during the day. Students are encouraged to reflect on and upload their work each week, building to the portfolio submission at the end of term.

The sessions are all in person. There is one field trip to Dublin city centre and one sketching trip around UCD during the time of the Drawing & Making module. Attendance and participation each week are a mandatory part of the module, and students are strongly encouraged to attend and to participate in the group discussions of your work and the work of your peers. Peer discussion and feedback in particular are a very important component of your learning in this module. Please contact one of the teaching team if for any reason you are unable to attend a session.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Co-requisite:
ARCT10010 - Architectural Design I


 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Each week, students will respond to a brief during the Drawing & Making session, and upload their completed weekly work to Brightspace. Students will then collate these weekly uploads into a physical and digital portfolio at the end of term, which is the summative assessment for the module. At any time prior to the Digital Portfolio deadline, students can reflect on, revise and update elements of their weekly uploads to prepare for the submission of the final Digital Portfolio. At each weekly Drawing & Making session, students' work in progress and uploaded completed work will be regularly pinned up and discussed, providing feedback for students to aid them in the development of their work and the collation of their final Physical and Digital Portfolio. Participation in these pin-up and discussion sessions is crucial for students to understand feedback on their work in progress in a number of ways: - Group/Class Feedback from the Teaching Team - Peer Review activities: Students are encouraged to review and discuss their work and the work of their peers at each session. - Self- assessment activities & Peer-Review: Students are encouraged to reflect on and critically evaluate their own work based on the pin-up and discussion sessions. In general, students have a responsibility to consider all types of feedback given on their work, seek to understand it and act on it in the collation of their final Physical and Digital Portfolio. The Teaching Team are also available during each Drawing & Making session for further discussion if there are any aspects of the feedback given during group discussions that the student does not understand.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.