Core Curriculum: Where people live
‘Where people live’ is a RIBA core curriculum subject. It covers (among other areas): the theories and objectives of urban design and the qualities of successful places; influence of design and development on places, communities, non urban areas and cities; ways in which spaces and places fit into their local context, and; understanding the relationship between design, buildings, green spaces, gathering places, facilities, energy, carbon reduction, highways, servicing, safety and security, and people.
Focussed around providing guidance on the Government’s key initiatives on terrorist attacks, this seminar covers all ranges of automatic doors, including standard, enhanced security, and bomb blast automatic entrance solutions designed to protect crowded places during and after an attack. It also explains how risks are assessed and the specific considerations that need to be addressed when specifying automated doors.
Ingersoll Rand is a leading global provider of products and services that make environments safe and secure without inhibiting access or working capability. Recently its automated Bomb Blast
Resistant Doorset, which has been designed to withstand the blast overpressure of an explosion, won the Best Buildings and Facilities Innovation Award at Counter Terror Expo 2013.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes
This course is designed for architects, landscape and urban designers who work as studio tutors in architecture schools, but who are not experts in the area of environmental design. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on workshop sessions participants will be provided with some of the fundamental knowledge and skills required to supervise students in the development of environmental design solutions, in the immediate context of their studio projects. Studio tutors will not replace the specialist technical tutors but will assist them by coaching students on how to address environmental design questions in their architectural projects. This, however, requires environmental design to be taught in a manner that is sympathetic to the experiential and iterative learning approaches deployed within the architectural studio.
The Centre for Architecture and Sustainable environment is a research centre within the Kent School of Architecture, focusing on sustainable design. The Centre’s main research areas include environmental design education, historic environmental technology and urban heat island. Current projects include research into the design and performance of the Houses of Parliament’s historic ventilation system and an HEA funded project on integrating environmental design into studio projects.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 8½ hours