Philadelphia University
Faculty of Engineering
Department of Architecture
First Semester (2014/2015)
Course Syllabus
Course Title:
Architectural Design (7)
Course Level:
4th year
Lecture Time:
Sun & Tues 8:10 – 12:00 @61306
Course code:
660456
Course prerequisite (s):
660355: Architectural Design (6)
Credit hours:
4
Academic Staff Specifics
Name
Rank
Office
Number and
Location
Dr. Afnan Saleh
Assistant
professor
61-311
Office
Hours
E-mail Address
a.saleh@ philadelphia.edu.eg
Course description:
This design course concerns with new tendencies for hospital planning. The
student is to have the basic required knowledge of hospital planning, international
healthcare facilities codes and specifications, and different architectural
applications. Essentially, the students’ practice of designing a general hospital of
300bed will improve the students’ skills of professional design for such type of
complex institutions that are sensitive toward the international change of mentality
in designing such facilities where administrative quality, sophisticated medical
functionality, infection control, stress control and safety matters depend on the
efficiency of architectural design.
Course objectives:
This course main objective is to improve the student’s skills in new tendencies
of healthcare facilities design. In this difficult task, the functionality that all health
centers require to adapt to computer systems and sophisticated medical equipment
must be combined with an aesthetic that is pleasant for patients, visitors and
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medical staff. This combination is supplemented with circulation systems and
access that must convent and efficient, because minutes can at time be crucial in a
building of this type. This course aims to fulfill the following objectives:
 General knowledge of introductory basics of hospital planning which are
essential for useful understanding of the way such institutions work and
therefore be able to design its facilities.
 To understand the basic codes and specifications concerns the different
hospital department, relations between these departments, safety control
issues, infection control issues, stress control issues and circulations
systems.
 To apply the basic medical department specifications and samples on CAD
drawings to be used as basic unites and modules of design.
 Analyzing site plan to be able to locate and design the hospital in
functional, pleasant, efficient, environmentally friendly, and economical
way.
 Selecting and analyzing useful and affordable case studies.
 Evaluating the functionality, quality control, infection control, safety, stress
control, efficacy, and aesthetic values of the case studies.
 Creating, as main goal, a 300bed hospital design which has specialized
departments for different needs and facilities for sleeping, eating and
purchasing.
Course components
Books;
Selected sections from several books shown at the end of this syllabus
Support material;
Various illustrations on Data Show, books, magazines, site visits, and
DVDs.
Homework and laboratory guide:
A series of exercise sheets designed to achieve the course objectives.
Each sheet includes exercise description, exercise objective, required
instruments and materials, and guiding instructions and the time of work to
produce required submittals.
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Teaching methods:
This course follows the process of enhancing the student’s talents and
practical experience. In order to achieve this, the followings should be taken into
consideration;
 Each exercise objectives are explained in details to ensure the student’s
ability to be involved in the experiment.
 The student needs a strong desire, patience, perseverance, commitment,
and most of all practice so to gain confidence in his/her ideas and abilities.
 Exercises are designed in a way that provides the student with analytical
skills enabling him/ her with the ability to start the architectural design
process.
 Architectural design is a continuous process of decision making.
Accordingly, this course requires and enhances the student’s decision
making, self assessment, problem solving, and presentation skills.
Learning outcomes:
Knowledge and understanding:
The student is to be aware that architectural design is a creative process that
requires both organization and intuition which involves continuous ordering of the
defined form and space for enjoyable functional use.
Cognitive skills - (thinking and analysis):
This course improves the student’s imagination by manipulating a three
dimensional organization of form and space.
Communication skills - (personal and academic):
The student will be trained to use the architectural vocabulary which enables
him/her to work with other architects. The practice of creative architectural design
strengthens the student’s confidence and leadership skills. The Masterpiece of
architecture can never be created without the designer’s strong desire, persistence,
practice, knowledge, time management, decision making, problem solving, and
innovative skills.
Practical and subject specific skills - (Transferable Skills):
The student’s recognizing and practicing of the organization of space and
form in third dimension is considered as basic knowledge in architectural design
that helps the student to succeed in future practice of architectural design.
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Assessment instruments
The student is to submit two main projects which are to be evaluated
according to the following criterion:
Allocation of Marks
Assessment Instruments
Mark
First Exam: Submittals 1& 2 (10+10)
20%
Second Exam: Submittal 3 (20)
20%
Reports: Sketch designs (1+2) & ½ submittal 4 (5+5+10)
20%
Final Exam: ½ submittal 4 & final submittal (10+5+25)
40%
Total
100%
Engineering student should have the ability of time management.
Consequently, assignments and exercises should be submitted on time. A bonus of
5% of the students’ grade will be awarded to those who submit their projects on
time. A penalty of 5% of the students’ grade will be inflicted foe each day of delay
(weekends included).
Documentation and academic honesty
The students are trusted to act honorably. Those who are in violation of the
academic honesty can be subjected to standard penalty for a first offence includes
issuing "No Pass" or "No Credit" for the exercise in which the violation occurred.
The standard penalty for a multiple violation includes "No Pass" or "No Credit"
for the course. Examples of conduct which to be regarded as being in violation
include unpermitted collaboration and representing the work of another as one's
own work.
Course academic calendar
‫مناسبات‬
‫ عالمة‬10 :1 ‫تسليم‬
‫الشهر‬
‫اليوم‬
‫اليوم‬
‫السبوع‬
10
19
‫ح‬
1
10
21
‫ث‬
10
26
‫ح‬
10
28
‫تسلسل‬
‫ايام‬
‫العمل‬
‫الفعلية‬
‫التسلسل‬
‫التعريف بالمادة والمشروع‬
‫دراسة متطلبات المشروع‬
‫نبذة عن المستشفيات‬
‫دراسة متطلبات المشروع‬
‫حاالت دراسية والمعايير‬
1
1
2
2
3
3
‫ث‬
‫ دراسة متطلبات المشروع‬:1 ‫تسليم‬
4
4
)‫تحليل الموقع وتوزيع الفعاليات (موقع عام اولي‬
5
5
)‫تحليل الموقع وتوزيع الفعاليات (موقع عام اولي‬
6
6
11
2
‫ح‬
11
4
‫ث‬
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3
‫اجندة العمل‬
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‫‪7‬‬
‫تسليم ‪ :2‬تحليل الموقع وتوزيع الفعاليات (موقع عام اولي)‬
‫‪8‬‬
‫‪8‬‬
‫الفكرة االولية‬
‫المساقط االفقية وتوقيع االقسام الطبية‬
‫)‪Architectural Design (7‬‬
‫‪4‬‬
‫‪5‬‬
‫ح‬
‫‪9‬‬
‫‪11‬‬
‫ث‬
‫‪11‬‬
‫‪11‬‬
‫ح‬
‫‪16‬‬
‫‪11‬‬
‫‪9‬‬
‫‪9‬‬
‫‪10‬‬
‫‪10‬‬
‫المساقط االفقية وتوقيع االقسام الطبية‬
‫ث‬
‫‪11‬‬
‫‪11‬‬
‫الواجهات والمقاطع‬
‫‪12‬‬
‫‪12‬‬
‫الموقع العام‬
‫‪13‬‬
‫‪13‬‬
‫تسليم ‪ :3‬التصميم االولي‬
‫‪18‬‬
‫تسليم ‪ :2‬موقع عام‬
‫مبدئي (‪ 10‬عالمة)‬
‫‪11‬‬
‫ح‬
‫‪23‬‬
‫‪11‬‬
‫ث‬
‫‪25‬‬
‫‪11‬‬
‫اسبوع امتحانات االول‬
‫ح‬
‫‪30‬‬
‫‪11‬‬
‫تسليم ‪ 20 :3‬عالمة‬
‫‪14‬‬
‫‪14‬‬
‫‪Sketch design 1‬‬
‫ث‬
‫‪2‬‬
‫‪15‬‬
‫‪15‬‬
‫تفاصيل االقسام الطبية‬
‫‪16‬‬
‫‪16‬‬
‫تفاصيل االقسام الطبية‬
‫‪17‬‬
‫‪17‬‬
‫ضبط العدوى‪ /‬انماط الحركة‪ /‬االدارة‬
‫‪18‬‬
‫‪18‬‬
‫ضبط العدوى‪ /‬انماط الحركة‪ /‬االدارة‬
‫ث‬
‫‪19‬‬
‫‪19‬‬
‫الواجهات والمقاطع‬
‫‪20‬‬
‫‪20‬‬
‫الواجهات والمقاطع‬
‫‪21‬‬
‫‪21‬‬
‫الموقع العام‬
‫‪22‬‬
‫‪22‬‬
‫الموقع العام‬
‫ث‬
‫‪23‬‬
‫‪23‬‬
‫تسليم ‪ :4‬قبل النهائي (‪ 20‬عالمة)‬
‫‪24‬‬
‫‪24‬‬
‫‪2Sketch design‬‬
‫‪25‬‬
‫‪25‬‬
‫تطوير المشروع‬
‫‪26‬‬
‫‪26‬‬
‫تطوير المشروع‬
‫ث‬
‫‪27‬‬
‫‪27‬‬
‫تكامل المشروع واالظهار‬
‫‪28‬‬
‫‪28‬‬
‫تكامل المشروع واالظهار‬
‫‪29‬‬
‫التسليم النهائي ‪30( 5‬عالمة)‬
‫‪30‬‬
‫مناقشة المشروع‬
‫‪6‬‬
‫‪7‬‬
‫‪8‬‬
‫‪9‬‬
‫‪10‬‬
‫‪11‬‬
‫‪12‬‬
‫‪13‬‬
‫‪14‬‬
‫‪15‬‬
‫‪16‬‬
‫‪12‬‬
‫ح‬
‫‪7‬‬
‫‪11‬‬
‫ث‬
‫‪9‬‬
‫‪11‬‬
‫ح‬
‫‪14‬‬
‫‪12‬‬
‫‪16‬‬
‫‪12‬‬
‫ح‬
‫‪21‬‬
‫‪12‬‬
‫ث‬
‫‪23‬‬
‫‪12‬‬
‫ح‬
‫‪28‬‬
‫‪12‬‬
‫‪30‬‬
‫امتحان ‪ 5‬عالمة‬
‫‪12‬‬
‫امتحانات الثاني‬
‫امتحانات الثاني‬
‫ح‬
‫‪4‬‬
‫‪1‬‬
‫تسليم ‪ 20 :4‬عالمة‬
‫ث‬
‫‪6‬‬
‫‪1‬‬
‫امتحان ‪ 5‬عالمة‬
‫ح‬
‫‪11‬‬
‫‪1‬‬
‫‪13‬‬
‫‪1‬‬
‫ح‬
‫‪18‬‬
‫‪1‬‬
‫ث‬
‫‪20‬‬
‫‪1‬‬
‫ح‬
‫‪25‬‬
‫‪1‬‬
‫اخر موعد انسحاب‬
‫من المادة‬
‫تسليم ‪ 30 :3‬عالمة‬
‫ث‬
‫‪27‬‬
‫‪1‬‬
‫ح‬
‫‪1‬‬
‫‪2‬‬
‫عالمة النهائي‬
‫ويضاف لها تقييم اداء‬
‫عامامتحانات‬
‫نهائية‪10‬‬
‫ومشاركة من‬
‫ث‬
‫‪3‬‬
‫‪2‬‬
‫امتحانات نهائية‬
‫‪Expected workload:‬‬
‫‪Architectural Design courses are the most important courses for the‬‬
‫‪architectural engineering student. This course involves creative tasks that require‬‬
‫‪patience and continuous practicing which implies spending extra time (not less‬‬
‫‪than 10 hours/week) in working on projects and exercises.‬‬
‫‪Attendance policy:‬‬
‫‪Absence from lectures and/or tutorials shall not exceed 15%. Students who‬‬
‫‪exceed the 15% limit without a medical or emergency excuse acceptable to and‬‬
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approved by the Dean of the relevant college/Faculty shall not be allowed to take
the final examination and shall receive a mark of zero for the course. If the excuse
is approved by the Dean, the student shall be considered to have withdrawn from
the course.
References
Books
Ching, Francis D.K. 1979. Architecture: Form. Space & Order. New York : Van Nostrand
Reinhold Company, 1979.
Dechiara, Joseph and Hancock, John. 1973. Time-saver Standards for Building Types. New
York : McGraw-Hill, 1973.
Fawcett, A. Peter. 1998, 2003. Architecture: design notebook. s.l. : Architectural Press, 1998,
2003.
Neufert, Ernst and Neufert, Peter. 2002. Neufert's Architects' Data. s.l. : Blackwell Publishing
Professional, 2002.
The American Institute of Architects . 2007. Architectural Graphic Standards. s.l. : John Wiley
& Sons Ltd., 2007.
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