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Design Study 2 will focus on a design project for a place of assembly such as a theatre or a concert hall with associated commercial and office elements. This project will be located on a site outside the UK with a different regulatory environment and will include participant engagement with local communities to ensure sensitive and inclusive approaches to fire safe design. Students study how both strategic and detailed fire safety considerations affect the nature of the design. The context of this project provides a much broader set of opportunities for design, while being inspired by the fire safety of occupants. The nature of the project enables the incorporation of different social considerations and the roles of other professional relationships that are defined by relevant construction legislation, procurement practices, and design strategies.Ìý

Learning OutcomesÌý

On successfully completing the module you will demonstrate the following learning outcomes, in the context of a large and complex place of assembly under prescriptive (non-UK) legislation and other guidance:

1. Create fire safe strategic layout options and evaluate these against design, social and sustainability criteria including long term flexibility in use.

2. Create fire safe detailed volumetric proposals that include decisions about fire compartmentation, the nature of structural and non-structural materials, components and servicing systems and the location and nature of specialist fire equipment, detection, active separation and fire and smoke suppression systems.

3. Develop the design of a fire safe external envelope to include long span roofing in the context of a fire strategy that meets structural, sustainability, ventilation, thermal, moisture and air permeability criteria and propose appropriate procurement routes.

4. Evaluate digital building envelope proposals.

5. Synthesise a coherent design proposal with a thorough, well presented illustrated report.

Reading List:Ìý

Craighead, G., High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety, Elsevier, 2009, 3rd Ed.

Drysdale, D.D. Introduction to Fire Dynamics. 3rd Edition. Chichester: Wiley, 2012.Ìý

Frost, L. E., and E. L. Jones. ‘The Fire Gap and the Greater Durability of Nineteenth Century Cities’. Planning Perspectives 4, no. 3 (1 September 1989): 333–47.Ìý

Hollis, L. The Phoenix: St. Paul’s Cathedral and The Men Who Made Modern London. London: W&N, 2009.

Hurley, M. SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. 5th Edition. Gaithersburg, MD: SFPE, 2016.

NFPA 1, National Fire Protection Association, 2020: https://www.nfpa.org/codes-and-standards/all-codes-and-standards/list-of-codes-and-standards/detail?code=1

NFPA 101, National Fire Protection Association, 2020: https://www.nfpa.org/codes-and-standards/all-codes-and-standards/list-of-codes-and-standards/detail?code=101

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O’Hagan, A. ‘The Tower’. London Review of Books. https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n11/andrew-ohagan/the-tower.

Quintiere, J.G. Principles of Fire Behaviour. 2nd Edition. Clifton Park, NY: CRC Press, 2017.

Schalk, M. ‘The Architecture of Metabolism. Inventing a Culture of Resilience’. Arts 3, no. 2 (13 June 2014): 279–97.Ìý

Schoenefeldt, H. ‘The Lost (First) Chamber of the House of Commons, AA Files, 72 (June 2016) Pp. 161-173’.Ìý

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Slaton, A. E., ed. New Materials: Towards a History of Consistency. Amherst: Lever Press, 2020.

Stollard, P., and J. Abrahams. Fire from First Principles: A Design Guide to Building Fire Safety. London: Routledge, 2014.

UK Gov. Fire Safety: Approved Document B. 2020. Open access: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-approved-document-b

Plus this periodical:

BSOL British Standards Online BSI. https://bsol.bsigroup.com/.

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