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Building the Brief: People Process Place (ABPL90321)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
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Overview
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This subject provides insight into the design briefing process for a range of facilities, with a specific focus on learning and health environments. Key issues addressed include how to effectively engage with users/occupants of buildings, collect data about their organisational objectives, activities and spatial requirements, and strategically link such information to the work of architects and other design consultants.
The subject examines evidence-based design, effective planning processes that include stakeholder engagement and consultation, change management, spatial literacy, and workplace cultures and pedagogies. Participants will develop skills associated with developing strategic briefs that translate organisational objectives and patterns of activity into spatial requirements, including affinity and relationship diagrams.
Intended learning outcomes
Students will achieve the following graduate competencies in this unit:
- community and user consultation skills,
- research into evidence-based design,
- the strategic and architectural briefing process,
- an understanding of facility planning and programming scope of responsibilities and tools used.
Generic skills
Communication in written, diagrammatic and verbal forms, writing of briefs for different audiences, cross-disciplinary engagement working in teams.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into one of the following courses:
MC-ARCH Master of Architecture
MC-ARCH2Y Master of Architecture (200 points)
MC-ARCH3Y Master of Architecture (300 points)
MC-LARCH Master of Landscape Architecture
MC-LARCH2Y Master of Landscape Architecture (200 points)
MC-LARCH3Y Master of Landscape Architecture (300 points)
MC-CM Master of Construction Management
MC-CONMG2Y Master of Construction Management (200 points)
MC-CONMG3Y Master of Construction Management (300 points)
MC-PROP Master of Property
MC-PROP2Y Master of Property (200 points)
MC-PROP3Y Master of Property (300 points)
MC-URPL Master of Urban Planning
234AA Master of Design
234AH Master of Design (Heritage)
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
- Project Plan Oral – individual oral presentation of 10 minutes, equivalent to 1000 words; due during week-long intensive teaching period (20%);
- Project Plan Written – 1000 words; due three (3) weeks after week-long intensive teaching period (20%);
- Major Assignment – 3000 words; due seven (7) weeks after week-long intensive teaching period (60%).
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- July
Principal coordinator Ben Cleveland Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 35 hours (7 hours x 5 days) Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 9 July 2019 Pre teaching requirements Reading some papers Teaching period 22 July 2019 to 26 July 2019 Last self-enrol date 11 July 2019 Census date 22 July 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 23 August 2019 Assessment period ends 13 September 2019 July contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Additional delivery details
This subject involves a pre-teaching period which requires students to read three set articles totalling 60 pages prior to commencement.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Worthington & Blyth (2010), Managing the Brief for Better Design, Routledge, London.
- Subject notes
This subject is closely related to “ABPL90322 Human Environment Relations” and “EDUC90728 Innovative Spaces & Pedagogy”, with the latter unit available to ABP and MGSE students who work together on 'real' school based projects.
Where the course structure allows it, some Melbourne School of Design students may be able to take all three subjects (check Handbook course entries for details).
Master of Architecture students who complete all three subjects and subsequently undertake “ABPL90169 Design Thesis” with a Learning Environments theme, find they have a strong basis for framing their thesis. - Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Architecture Course Master of Architecture - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 3 November 2022