Critical Context inExistence by Jingyan He. MA Architecture/ MA Interior Architecture Final Realization July 2017. Photo: Anna Holder
31/01/18 - 09/05/2018 SEMESTER 2 CARC7003 & CIND7012 Following your literature review and position statement in semester one, you will now be developing your own detailed research project, an extended critical research thesis. The research thesis should support and aid the development of your design-research in studio. It should reflect the direction that your own research is moving in and its focus should be your own studio design research trajectory, while building upon the knowledge and insights you have gained through the literature review. It is important that the two, your thesis and studio work are developed together. As an original piece of research the thesis should be adding depth, complexity and richness to your studio work and academic writing. The research thesis and your presentations, will need to underpin and help substantiate the products of your studio work. The research thesis should take the form of a 7,000 word thesis (excluding references and bibliographic material). It should include an abstract, introduction, condensed literature review, case studies, conclusion and where appropriate, inclusion of research by design or prototyping in studio. The work must be fully referenced, using the UCA Harvard Style. A bibliography and list of illustrations should be provided at the end of the thesis. For this unit, you will be assigned to a supervisor who will help you develop your subject specific knowledge. You will need to be in contact with your supervisor directly, to arrange meetings with them. Alongside your supervisory meetings, there will be a series of workshops provided to help you develop you work and build your knowledge of research processes and methods. Success in this unit will depend on you actively engaging with your topic, reading extensively, visiting projects and exhibitions and studying other, related projects closely. The learning hours for this unit suggest that you should be spending around 600 hours in total, so 300 hours on your thesis and 300 hours on your studio. This is an average of 20 hours per week on your thesis for reading, research and writing. The thesis development will run from the 31/01/2018 until the final thesis presentation on 09/05/2018. Meetings will be held from 10:00 in the studio unless stated otherwise.
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UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Interior Architecture & MA Architecture // 2017-18