DRAD 2040 - Architectural Design 4

Credit Hours: 4.00

Prerequisites: DRAD 2030

Corequisites: DRAD 1020

(formerly DRAD 2280)

This course is the last of the architectural design courses and an introduction of elements and methods of urban planning and design. Students will examine urban developments in history within city and community and issues arising in current urban design practice. Analysis of design within diverse urban areas open to public use, patterns in urbanizing areas, city or town individual structures, landscape design layout, an understanding of watersheds, topography, conservation or creation of green areas, the need for the preservation of energy resources and the restructuring of inner cities , and the metropolitan edge. Emphasis is placed on design of infrastructure such as highways, streets, bicycle, pedestrian trails and open spaces, buildings, and landscape patterns that establish neighborhoods and provide the settings for community public life. As a capstone course, students will finalize their architectural design portfolio using the best projects from all courses.

Contact Hours: 6

South Campus

OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES
Outcome 1: Upon completion of this course, students will compare urban planning city developments throughout history.

Objectives:

Examine the historical nature of cities and towns, and the process of urbanization.
Identify the rise in city populations
Discover urban history as wider systems of communication, power or social relations.
Discover the sustainable urbanism design movement.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will identify several important urban designers and the practice of urban design.

Objectives:

Recognize that the urban design practice shapes the physical setting for life in cities, towns and villages.
Identify the built environment professionals and the nature of urban design reflected in the Urban Design Alliance (UDAL).
Recognize software used for urban design.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will analyze infrastructure and patterns established within cities and neighborhoods.

Objectives:

Distinguish the physical components of interrelated systems essential to our built environment.
Demonstrate infrastructure solutions that are cost-effective, efficient, and sustainable.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will analyze and find solutions to bringing a sense of community back to our neighborhood.

Objectives:

Examine the relationship between neighborhood design and the sense of community.
Model community engagement as a process of working corroboratively with individuals and groups to achieve specific goals.
Identify various urban park systems that support participation in and attachment to community.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will evaluate local city developments and make recommendations to city officials.

Objectives:

Create a spatial analysis of structures at the human scale.
Identify useful, attractive, safe, environmentally sustainable, economically successful and socially equitable places.
Investigate local identity and sense of place, cultural responsiveness and purposeful environmental innovation within local cities.

Outcome 6: Upon completion of this course, students will build a model representing the infrastructure within an area of concern.

Objectives:

Identify why urban models are a vital tool for town/city planning and development.
Recognize model making tips and materials for urban models built at a smaller scale representing large urban areas.

Outcome 7: Upon completion of this course, students will finalize their professional architectural design portfolio.

Objectives:

Present a collection of drawings created in the course.
Identify the portfolio creation process.

COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES
(Bulleted outcomes apply to the course)

1. The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.

2. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.

3. The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.

4. The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.

5. The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.

COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE

History of Urban Development
Urban Designers
Practice of Urban Design
Infrastructure and Patterns
Sustainable Neighborhoods
Sense of Community
Local City Developments
Human Scale
Environmental Innovations
Build a Model
Professional Design Portfolio

Primary Faculty
Grant, Janice
Secondary Faculty

Associate Dean
Pawlowski, Timothy
Dean
Hutchison, Donald

Official Course Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088