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ARC 450 - Architectural Design ARC 510 - Graduation Project II and processes for sustainable project. The Course will expose the concepts, elements and principles Geographic Information Systems.
VI architecture. It will study sustainable students to drawings and detailing of design, and basic concepts of Acquire technical skills in the use
Credit Hours: 6 theory how it influences practice and develop an understanding of space planning and furniture layout. of GIS software; acquire qualitative
Credit Hours: 6 Prerequisite: ARC 450 and informs design thinking. The drawings for landscape architecture Development of design vocabulary methods skills in data and document
Prerequisites ARC 410
A substantial work of design research “triple-bottom-line” or “three-E’s” and the skill of creating specifications relative to architectural details, gathering, analyzing information, and
This course introduces students to presented as a short thesis report, (Environment, Economy, and Equity) for landscape projects. furnishings, and finishes. It will presenting results; and investigate
the process of developing a program entailing practical application to will be used as an organizing theme introduce terminology that helps the potential and practicality of GIS
for functional/environmental a researched topic of a specific to connect theory to daily practice. clarify and amplify architectural technologies in a typical planning
requirements of the determined building type (complex multi- use Building rating systems such as LEED ARC 584 - Housing and interior design thought and setting and evaluate possible
project, setting up solution for the design problem). Project selection is will be used to evaluate and enhance Credit Hours: 3 introduce students to careers in applications.
concerned design problem, and based on the real needs of society. the sustainability of a given project. interior design. Management
selecting the relevant site for the Methodology in architectural ARC 550 - Graduation Project II Prerequisite: ARC 360
developed program. Taking into design through a process of Concepts of housing policies, Computer Application ARC 586 Architectural
account the real needs of local programming. Literature review, Credit Hours: 6 developments and design. Site ARC 582 - 3D Modeling Conservation
society, students are also introduced data collection, statistics, case study Prerequisite: ARC 510 considerations and computations for
to the process of analysis and critique, developed architectural accomplishing residential housing Credit Hours: 3 (1 lecture + 4 studio) Credit Hours: 3
synthesis, and evaluation of large program and schematic design Development of the schematic development projects. Real estate Prerequisite: ARC 280 Prerequisite: ARC 260
concept formulated during
scale design problems as applied concept. Special consideration of development process. Site evaluation History of the conservation
to large community projects (e.g. social, environmental, cultural and Graduation Project I. Development considerations include those relating This course is designed to teach an movement, international and
residential, commercial, convention, traditional aspects in architectural of design preliminary drawings in to boundary surveys, topographic advanced level of 3D modeling and local conservation programs,
accordance with the Architectural
and health complexes). design. Presentation is in a form of a evaluation, soil analysis, traffic animation for architects. Emphasis regulatory instruments, methods
report and preliminary project. design program formulated in evaluation, hydrographic analysis, will be placed on building 3D world
ARC 460 - Structures for Graduation Project I. Rendering plus environmental, aesthetic, and space representing various aspects and techniques. Case studies.
Architects II ARC 520 Research Methods and and presentation of the design of the built environment. It will allow Conservation experience in UAE. This
Program- ming final drawings, using advanced cultural considerations. students to build upon concepts such class examines the history and theory
Credit Hours: 3 CAAD application. A comprehensive ARC 585 - Islamic as complex geometries, light effects, of historic conservation, focusing
Prerequisite: ARC 330 Credit Hours: 3 experience closely related to materials, camera settings, physical on the UAE, but with reference to
Prerequisite: ARC 410 professional practice of Architecture Architecture traditions and practices in other
Strength of structural materials, motion, and modeling techniques,
design of tension & compression This course revisits the architectural after graduation. Credit Hours: 3 rendering, and post production. countries, and explore how laws,
members, beams, slabs, and columns design process with emphasis on the Prerequisite: ARC 220 ARC 583 - Building Information public policies and cultural attitudes
shape how we preserve or do not
in both concrete and steel design. study of methods for gathering data Professional Elective This course is an exploration of Modeling
and analysis of project information the history of Islamic cultures preserve the built environment.
ARC 470 - Urban Design for the design synthesis. Courses through their most vibrant creation: Credit Hours: 3 (1 lecture + 4 studio) ARC 587 - Project
Credit Hours: 3 ARC 530 - Working Drawings II Special Design Focus architecture. The course explores Prerequisite: ARC 280 Management
Prerequisite: ARC 360 Islamic architecture both as a This course explores Building
Credit Hours: 3 ARC 581 - Landscape historical tradition and as a cultural Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces concepts and Prerequisite: ARC 430 catalyst that influenced and was Information Modeling (BIM) Prerequisite: ARC 340
theories of urban design. It explores Architecture influenced by the civilizations with programs from Preliminary Design
elements and structure and the tools This course focuses on the Credit Hours: 3 which it came in contact. It surveys through Design Development, and Theories, methods and quantitative
needed for analysis and evaluation preparation of a complete set of Prerequisites: ARC 210 the sacred, commemorative, pious, into Construction Documents. It tools used to effectively plan,
of urban space, project development, working drawings for a medium size and educational architecture in the focuses on streamlining the design organize, and control construction
project management and architectural project with emphasis This course emphasizes the history Islamic world from the beginning process with a central 3D model. projects; efficient management
presentation. The course will build on detailing. Drawings include plans, and Development of Landscape of Islam as a religious revolution in ARC 591 - Geographical methods revealed through practice
skills fundamental to undertaking a layouts, schedule, details, building Architecture in addition to 7th-century Arabia to its evolution and research; hands-on, practical
wide variety of urban design efforts, systems such as architectural, understanding the contemporary as a global power straddling three Information Systems project management knowledge
including for example: design of structural as well as the integration landscape architecture, its various continents, Asia, Africa, and Europe, Credit Hours: 3 (1 lecture + 4 studio from on-site situations and field trips.
streets and public places, shaping of mechanical, electrical, and elements, materials, assemblies and in the medieval period to a world Prerequisite: ARC 280 ARC 590 - Building
neighborhood form and function, communication systems. their characteristics. The technology religion professed by one-sixth of Economics
and incorporating natural systems and methods of landscape design humanity in the present. Develop a solid understanding of the
into the urban fabric. ARC 540 - Sustainable Design will also be covered. The complete planning and public management Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 process of landscape design as ARC 588 - Interior Architecture uses of geographic information Prerequisite: ARC 340
Prerequisite: ARC 410 applied to complex projects in systems (GIS). The development and This course covers the principles
Landscape architecture will include Credit Hours: 3 history of GIS, present applications of of economics and its application
This course investigates the theory the proposal, programming, Prerequisites: ARC 210 the technology. Essential elements in the construction and building
and practice of sustainability and analysis, concept development and This course is an introduction to of a Geographic Information System. industry. It conveys an appreciation
the interrelated design methods final presentation of the design architectural and interior design Basic concepts and principles of

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