Design technology II is concerned with how ideas are made. Design strategies and the detailed decisions subsequently developed to support them must demonstrate a direct synthesis between a project's intent and its architectural resolution. The potential for a project to respond to site and context is explored by addressing the technical requirements of a building's design and construction and the needs of its users, all of which are issues of performance. Technical design takes place at strategic (macro) and detailed (micro) levels, and is integral to the design aims and ambitions of an architectural project. The aim of the course is for the students to develop and demonstrate the following in relation to their Year 2 final design portfolio project.

The module is taught through a series of Lectures, workshops, structural and environmental clinic days and tutorials. Students will submit two Strategic Investigation Reports which should address the following issues in report one:

1. Introduction – project brief/themes, programme ideas, strategic aims
2. Site – location, reasoning for selection, historic/strategic context
3. Climate + Microclimate
4. Transport and Access – global, regional, local, programme-specific
5. Resources and Materials
6. Energy
7. Water
8. Internal Environment + Comfort
9. Material/Detail Investigation*
10. Bibliography

*The material/detail investigation is an opportunity to iteratively explore one or more evolving ideas relating to construction technologies, structures or materials under consideration during the Year 2 final design project. The material/detail investigation should be explored through maquettes, prototypes and physical models using the Bartlett workshop facilities.

Report two should address the following:

1. Introduction – project brief/themes, programme ideas, strategic aims
2. Structural Design
3. Envelope Study Details (3 sets of 2D + 3D)*
4. Construction
5. Environmental Design
6. Operation, Maintenance and Legacy of the Building
7. Conclusion
8. Bibliography
* the envelope study details must be digitally drawn at an appropriate scale in 2D and digitally modelled in 3D with notes and annotations. The details must be cross-referenced to images from a detailed structural model or digital 3D structural drawing of the design projects, also at an appropriate scale.