PTE405: App Arch Drawing

Course Title: App Arch Drawing
GRADE LEVEL: 11-12
CODE: PTE405
COURSE LENGTH: 36 Weeks
PREPARATION: Engineering Drawing, Principles of Engineering and Architectural Drawing

Major Concepts/Content: The applied architectural design course is designed as a capstone project. Emphasis is placed on applying life and educational experiences to architectural design. The team approach to problem solving is emphasized. The content includes, but is not limited to, determining purposes, uses, and aesthetics of structures, the analysis of various architectural designs, apply principles of environmental and energy efficient design, and use current construction materials and practices. Students will prepare and present multimedia presentations using a variety of software and technologies. This is a real or simulated design project meeting the needs of actual clients. This course is the culmination of the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) curriculum and is intended as an opportunity for students to utilize all the skills acquired through the AEC strand of courses. This course is recommended for aspiring architects, designers, engineers, CAD technicians, and interior decorators.

Major Instructional Activities: Students will work in design teams on a realistic architectural design project. A variety of computer software programs will be used in developing a presentation of final project solutions. Students will be required to plan, design, and produce a project. They will develop solutions to problem solving activities, communicate ideas and information orally and in writing, investigate content-related occupations, and assume leadership roles and work cooperatively. The final project will be presented to a review panel for evaluation. Students will use the Internet as one of many tools in researching their project designs. Students will have the opportunity to interact with designers through a mentoring program.

Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will be evaluated based upon the quality of their design work and performance. Projects will be analyzed and evaluated for meeting the essential objectives, creativity, and presentation quality. In addition, the students will be evaluated on their ability to cooperatively work together and solve problems.

Essential Objectives: Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

  • Cooperatively work as a member of a design team.
  • Demonstrate the use of CAD to model structures.
  • Analyze data in terms of conditions or laws that affect design.
  • Integrate zoning standards and architectural principles to generate a structural design.
  • Use current environmental considerations in designing a structure.
  • Apply energy efficient design concepts to the capstone project.
  • Develop and participate in the presentation of design projects.
  • Perform measurements in both the metric and U.S. customary systems.
  • Apply modeling techniques from the design analysis.
  • Maintain a technical journal recording the engineering process.

CLUSTERS AND PATHWAYS
This course can be used to partially satisfy the requirements for an endorsement in the following pathways.

Cluster | Pathway | Required/Recommended/Related

Architecture & Construction | Design/Pre-Construction | Required
Science, Technology, Engineering & Math | Engineering & Technology | Recommended

Last Revised: March 24th, 2009 at 3:01 pm.