This module will apply virtual work and flexibility analysis to develop conceptual and analytical understanding of new and existing structural systems. The...

Structural and Foundation Analysis (BARC0132)

This module will apply virtual work and flexibility analysis to develop conceptual and analytical understanding of new and existing structural systems. The application of soil mechanics to foundations investigation and design and forensic procedures will be examined. The module will include a selection of topics such as: • Structural analysis of building engineering components • Analysis and design of determinate and indeterminate structures • The effect of tolerance, fit, settlement and temperature • The analysis of bending, shear and torsion in beams • Foundation working loads and settlements • Analysis and design of shallow and deep foundations • Hygro-thermal performance of, and interaction with, ground floor structures and foundations • Site investigations using geotechnical methods • Evaluation of existing structures.

significant site specific theories|criticism and practice

BARC0075 is a module that uses a weekly series of lectures and seminars to introduce the students to the main types of research method adopted in situated...

Situated Practice: Research Methods (BARC0075)

BARC0075 is a module that uses a weekly series of lectures and seminars to introduce the students to the main types of research method adopted in situated practice. It provides an underlying conceptual framework concerning practice-led research, and also makes reference to examples of significant site specific theories, criticism and practice. The perspective provided will look both at the situation in London and the UK in detail, as well as exemplars from around the world.

Students will be introduced to the range of approaches taken to situated practice, by practitioners from across the spatial disciplines, emphasising transdisciplinary modes of practice and engagement.
To foreground the importance of critically situating one’s practice in relation to existing theoretical ideas and practice.
To explore how working in specific sites opens up possibilities for situated practice from responses to the formal and material conditions of location, to the social, cultural, political and historical pasts, presents and futures of a site, and to a focus on working with collaborators, including inhabitants and their roles as spectators, participants and/or possible co-producers and collaborators.
To introduce students to the kinds of approaches and questions they will need to tackle when it comes to developing their own individual approach to situated practice.