(A) Compulsory Program Requirements
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Course Code |
Course Name |
No. of Credit Hours |
Prerequisite |
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ARC611 |
ADVANCED DESIGN I |
03 |
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Description In this course, students have to design a large scale mixed-use building. The building has to be continuous and must be developed both horizontally and vertically. Have to solve the uses and circulation inside each use with their connection. Also the relationship between the building and its environment has to be logical and solved. The students have to work from the urban scale to the detailed scale. |
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Course Name |
No. of Credit Hours |
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ARC612 |
DESIGN THEORIES AND METHODS |
03 |
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Description Reviewing and comparing the design principles of architectural movements, since early the industrial revolution, which enables students to think critically and approach the problem solving in creative design based on deep theoretical knowledge and study cases. |
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Course Name |
No. of Credit Hours |
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ARC613 |
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY |
03 |
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Description In this course, the students in being acquainted with scientific methods of formulating researches, reports, critics, and thesis. Techniques of writing and formulating a clear research contents, presentation, research design and methods of data collection and analysis, all are embedded in the course contents. |
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Course Name |
No. of Credit Hours |
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ARC614 |
VALUE ENGINEERING IN ARCHITECTURE |
03 |
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Description A very specific course that encounters the student to a very fine engineering process of material selectivity, editing, and compromising in order to adapt the project to a certain financial ceiling without losing its required quality determinants. |
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Course Name |
No. of Credit Hours |
Prerequisite |
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ARC621 |
ADVANCED DESIGN II |
04 |
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Description In this course, students have to study many theoretical approaches for urban design of large scale mixed-use complexes. Buildings have to be continuous and must be developed both horizontally and vertically. Have to solve the uses and circulation inside each use with their connection. Also the relationship between the building and its environment has to be logical and solved. The students have to work from the urban scale to the detailed scale, with special emphasis on holistic design procedures, and future extension demands. |
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Course Name |
No. of Credit Hours |
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ARC622 |
PROJECT / DESIGN MANAGEMENT |
04 |
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Description This course aims to explain the role of the project manager as the architect responsible to conduct a design task, and a construction site within a time frame, a specified budget and a required quality level. The course teaches how to plan, organize and control the design/implementation work, using different and standard techniques used in the management process of the project different phases. |
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No. of Credit Hours |
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ARC623 |
SPECIAL TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN |
04 |
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Description This course adjusts the environmental conditions within the comfort zone of human performance in building/public space design. The essence of this course is to design sunshade devices and passive systems of cool ventilation, and illustrates different design responds to various environmental conditions. |
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Course Name |
No. of Credit Hours |
Prerequisite |
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ARC631 |
PROJECT RESEARCH |
04 |
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Description This individual researching and programming parts of the final Master project that selects the type of project with data collection and analysis. The research methodology follows theoretical framework and working techniques of architectural space/functional programming. |
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Course Name |
No. of Credit Hours |
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ARC643 |
CAPSTONE PROJECT |
05 |
ARC631 “PROJECT RESEARCH” |
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Description Integrating knowledge and skills acquired during two years of advanced architectural studies. Each student developing his/her own project, based on the research undertaken in ARCM631 Project Research. |
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(B) Elective Program Requirements
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Course Code |
Course Name |
No. of Credit Hours |
Prerequisite |
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ARC632 |
(Elective Course I/1) Energy and Exhaust in Building Operation |
03 |
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Description A course that tackles Environmental issues mainly concerning Zero Carbon Buildings, and how throughout the design process, the building exhaust would be minimized to its leas permissible levels. |
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Course Name |
No. of Credit Hours |
Prerequisite |
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ARC633 |
(Elective Course I/2) Architectural Energetic Self Reliance |
03 |
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Description A course that tackles Environmental issues mainly concerning Energy Self-Generating Buildings, aiming self sufficiency in producing and utilizing needed energy of electric power, Heating, Cooling, water resources, and other consumables that a building would created for itself. |
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Course Name |
No. of Credit Hours |
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ARC634 |
(Elective Course II/1) Special Structural Facilities |
03 |
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Description Structural design of buildings of special form and static status, are introduced here, with concept and process, analysis of statically determinate structures, and introducing methods of solving special structural issues in buildings and facilities. |
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Course Name |
No. of Credit Hours |
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ARC635 |
(Elective Course II/2) Simple Structural Analysis |
03 |
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Description The course introduces structural design concept and process, analysis of statically determinant and non-determinant structures, using simple methodologies for better understanding of the complex structural role in complex buildings. |
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ARC641 |
(Elective Course III/1) Urban Setting of Public Places |
03 |
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Description Theory and practice of planning the urban environment resembled in urban places, here integrate the cultural context to the physical essence of land-use and accessibility networks at different levels of resolution, aiming to the comfort and human ethics and values to be embraced in public conglomerates. |
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No. of Credit Hours |
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ARC642 |
(Elective Course III/2) Urban Design Thinking |
03 |
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Description This course handles urban issues in advanced manner. Theories and Applications of Urban Design, provides a deep handling of urban design terms in both physical and non-physical aspects. |
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