Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module, students should be able to demonstrate:
(i) ability to develop and critique projects in an individual and group setting.
(ii) ability to analyse and represent site context.
(iii) develop further the basic mapping skills learned in the earlier stages of their education and apply them in new ways to
capture transient and subtle characteristics of the study area.
(iv) understanding of the influence of site constraints on design development.
(v) ability to make and represent appropriate detailed design interventions in a given context.
(vi) understanding of issues concerning appropriate choice and use of materials.
(vii) ability to research appropriate subject matter independently and to use such material in support of design.
(viii) make appropriate and well-considered design interventions that respond to specific localised conditions.
Indicative Module Content:
Key topics addressed in this module are:
Wind farms in the Irish landscape
design principles - texture, proportion, linking idea;
site and context - research, survey and analysis;
conceptual and detailed design;
critical, comparative reading;
(hand) drawing & (model) making;
photography;
computer graphics and lay-out.