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Bushfire Interface Design Workshop (ENST90031)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25Not available in 2017
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This subject aims to integrate the elements of the prior subject Bushfire Interface Science in the Victorian regulatory context, giving a detailed understanding of how performance based design can complement existing compliance legislation.
The lectures, workshops, fieldwork and individual project work will be completed over one semester as a combination of formal instruction, group work and individual work. On completing individual projects, students present their work to the rest of the class and provide a written and basic spatial plan for the design of a residential development in a bushfire interface area.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of the Subject Students will:
- Be able to gather information suitable for, and to assess, complex urban interface scenes to determine bushfire risks and to communicate this in oral and written form.
- Be able to identify correctly, which alternative solutions options are appropriate to satisfy relevant planning and building regulations in high bushfire risk locations.
- Be able to produce a plan for development of a complex urban interface scene that demonstrates with evidence how alternative solution criteria are satisfied. This will include building and planning elements, and will demonstrate understanding of the relationships between these mechanisms.
- Be able to assess and make a decision on proposed development, possibly with changes or conditions of approval required.
- Be able to identify and illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of existing regulatory controls.
- Be able to recognise the inter-relationships between satisfying bushfire risk regulations and the range of related matters, such as economic viability, ecological values, aesthetics and ongoing maintenance issues.
Last updated: 3 November 2022