Academic Program Core Requirements
ARC611 ( ADVANCED DESIGN I )
Credit Hours: 3
| 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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ARC612 ( DESIGN THEORIES AND METHODS )
Credit Hours: 3
| 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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ARC613 ( RESEARCH METHODOLOGY )
Credit Hours: 3
| 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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ARC614 ( VALUE ENGINEERING IN ARCHITECTURE )
Credit Hours: 3
| 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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ARC621 ( ADVANCED DESIGN II )
Credit Hours: 4
| 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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ARC622 ( PROJECT / DESIGN MANAGEMENT )
Credit Hours: 4
| 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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ARC623 ( SPECIAL TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN )
Credit Hours: 4
| 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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ARC631 ( PROJECT RESEARCH )
Credit Hours: 4
| 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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ARC643 ( CAPSTONE PROJECT )
Credit Hours: 5
| 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. |
| Prerequisite : ARC631 “PROJECT RESEARCH” |
Academic Program Elective Requirements
ARC632 ( Energy and Exhaust in Building Operation )
Credit Hours: 3
| (Elective Course I/1) 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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ARC633 ( Architectural Energetic Self Reliance )
Credit Hours: 3
| (Elective Course I/2) 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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ARC634 ( Special Structural Facilities )
Credit Hours: 3
| (Elective Course II/1) The course provides theories / concepts of leadership and modern management 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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ARC635 ( Urban Setting of Public Places )
Credit Hours: 3
| (Elective Course III/1) 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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ARC642 ( Urban Design Thinking )
Credit Hours: 3
| (Elective Course III/2) 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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