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Major Courses
ARC (204)
Urban Design & Housing (1)
Introduction to urban design, housing and
related fields; relevance of contextual design; history and development of
urban form and housing; an introduction to site planning and design
principles, elements, processes and products; examples and application,
local and international, limited assignments.
ARC (304)
Urban Design & Housing (2)
Housing
– The unit covers housing and development of housing areas, relations to
related fields, housing development: processes, analysis and shaping of
housing areas; analysis, assessment and design of housing types and
patterns, completed and incremental housing development, site planning,
socio-economic aspects of housing - The housing project covers: the design
and assessment of housing units and the development of a local housing
area.
ARC (404)
Urban Design & Housing (3)
Urban design:
scope, objectives, output, major schools and trends, urban tissue, visual
perception, townscape, urban form, analysis and design of urban spaces and
paths, images and mental maps, community development: socio - economic
aspects, legislation and development control, case studies- The urban
design project, covers: development, upgrading, conservation and community
design of an existing and a new area.
Elective Courses
Third Year
ARC(361) : Housing (1): Housing in
Developing Countries
Definition of housing problems issues in
developing settings; special reference to Egypt, approaches and policies
and alternative, emphasizing the complex nature of comprehensive
development and urban housing; the importance of non-physical aspects,
roles of the involved actors, formal versus informal housing; seminars;
limited research assignments and applications.
ARC(362) : Urban Design (1): Community
Design
Conceptions and directions of community
design; definitions, analysis, emphasis on its nature as a complex
socio-cultural phenomenon and its physical expressions; tools and
principles of assessment and development, community features and
transformation, human settlements cultural, architectural and physical
patterns; community design and development; existing and new communities,
processes and elements, the Egyptian experience; seminars; limited
research assignments and applications.
ARC(363) : Site Planning and Landscape
Architecture
The unit covers the two closely related
disciplines: site planning and landscape design, reviews: objectives,
principles, conceptions, approaches and outputs; site selection and
evaluation, site organization, recording of natural and man-made settings;
landscape evaluation, cost and economic considerations, applications and
case studies, landscape details and construction; seminars; limited
research assignments and applications.
ARC(364) : Urban Spaces (1): History and
Development
Historic development of conceptions and
form of urban spaces, concise reviews and evaluation of selected examples
of urban space form; early and classical civilisations, Mediaeval,
Islamic, Renaissance and Baroque, Industrial and post Industrial
Revolution; design of urban spaces, visual analysis and evaluation, serial
vision, non-physical aspects; form, symbols and meaning, selected case
studies local and international; seminars, limited research assignments
and applications.
Fourth Year
ARC(461) : Housing (2): History and
Theories of Housing
Conceptions, features and characteristics
of human settlements, housing areas and housing units; reviews and
analysis of its development throughout history emphasising: older
civilisations, classical era, mediaeval, renaissance, industrial
revolution and beyond, 19th and 20th century; the
inter-relations and influences of religious, cultural, social, economic,
technical aspects and features of related civilisations; seminars; limited
research assignments and applications.
ARC(464) : Housing (4): Housing Policies
and Socio–Economic Transformations
The unit reviews and emphasises the
integrated relation between socio cultural contexts and housing, covers
and analyses socio cultural and economic transformations and related
general and housing policies and directives, follows and critically
monitors its physical products, housing schemes, patterns and types;
assessment of recent and current housing policies and products in Egypt;
seminars, limited research assignments and applications.
ARC(465) : Urban Design (2): Special Areas
Design and Development
Urban design processes, elements,
determinants, stages and outputs; emphasising natural and urban settings,
Special Areas with distinct features and value including: heritage areas,
areas of outstanding landscape value, coastal areas and water front,
twighlight areas, informal settings, urban edges, etc. Conceptions and
background, case studies; seminars, limited research assignments and
applications.
ARC(466) : Urban Spaces (2): Arts and New
Trends
The unit reviews conceptions, directives
and trends in urban space design and development; urban spaces as a
definition of public realm, and a resource in upgrading and development;
current trends in design, analysis and evaluation, urban space as an art
and a container of public and environment art, plastic arts and urban
spaces, history and current trends, critical review of selected case
studies; seminars, limited research assignments and applications.
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