ABB335 Materials, Products and Processes
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| Unit code: | ABB335 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | 144 credit points of completed study in current course |
| Equivalent(s): | DTB211 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,164 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,356 |
| International unit fee | $4,896 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | ABB335 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 144 credit points of completed study in current course |
| Equivalent: | DTB211 |
| Coordinator: | Muge Fialho Leandro Alves Teixeira | muge.teixeira@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit explores the complex nature of materials and products to enhance bespoke interior design project outcomes.
Your knowledge of materials and products relevant to interior design applications will be developed with a focus on sustainable and advanced manufacturing processes.
This unit introduces appropriate digital design, documentation and fabrication tools to communicate material research and understanding to relevant project stakeholders.
Specifying materials, products and processes for innovative use, is a fundamental process in the delivery of a creative interior design project.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate and communicate broad and coherent understanding of material compositions and advance manufacturing with a focus on sustainable processes and practices.
- Apply materials, product research and selections innovatively to an interior design scenario.
- Evaluate and use appropriate material selections for a given interior design scenario to create bespoke applications
- Effectively communicate innovative use of materials, products and processes using written reports, verbal presentations, visual illustrations and physical models.
Content
Topics covered in this unit include:
- introduction to materials and products utilized in interior design scenarios
- introduction to computational tectonics, digital fabrication, and advance manufacturing.
- introduction to digital documentation to communicate innovative and sustainable use of materials to a project team.
- introduction to commercial suppliers and companies relevant to commercial interior design.
Learning Approaches
This unit engages you in a practice based approach to learning and will involve self-directed learning, team-based learning, studio exercises, practical, exercises, site visits and integrated projects to explore key content areas. Strategies to be adopted in teaching the unit and promoting your learning include: externalization and explicit imagining, representing and testing of ideas through proposals for projects and exercises; and your involvement in practical exercises which encourage the integration of research and practice. Both content and organization is designed for you to assess your progress in the unit and the course and for you to gather evidence of meeting unit and course outcomes.
The main vehicles for facilitating learning are project based. Where appropriate, projects will be situated in real world contexts. Formal sessions will consist of lectures, keynote speakers, computer labs, practical sessions and studio consultations.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit will be provided to you in the following ways:
- a range of formative exercises undertaken and discussed during the teaching activities
- criteria sheet grading with written comments for summative assessment including opportunities for further discussion and clarification during teaching activities
- generic comments to all students via QUT Canvas.
Assessment
Overview
Formal assessment in this unit will involve two projects. The summative aspect of assessment will be provided by the allocation of grades for projects that will contribute to the end of semester grade. Assessment will be criterion based. These assessment criteria will be available at the start of the semester and you are encouraged to use them as constraints for testing your decisions.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Research: Materials / Products / Processes
Based on your research into nominated material(s), product(s) and processes, you will represent and communicate your findings in verbal and graphical presentation formats along with model making.
This assignment is not eligible for the 48 hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Bespoke Interiors
Innovatively apply your knowledge of appropriate material, product and process selection to create bespoke interior design solutions, using effective documentation to describe tectonics and assembly strategies.
This assignment is eligible for the 48 hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Health & Safety Inductions'
Students are required to complete, if haven't already previously completed, the following inductions / certificates:
- General Safety Induction (completed online): For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the FoE General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
- This unit (also) requires a FoE Health and Safety Induction, which provides an overview of the facilities and general safety procedures for using the Gardens Point J block Workshop facilities.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
You will undertake lectures and/or classes in classrooms and lecture theatres. As such, there are no extraordinary workplace health and safety issues associated with these components of the unit, however, you may be required to undertake lecturer-led and individual site visits to construction sites. Prior to these site visits, you are required to attend a construction safety induction session and obtain a safety induction card. This safety induction session introduces you to the relevant workplace health and safety requirements of Queensland construction sites. A safety induction course is provided by the faculty. If you do not have, or cannot produce a safety induction card, you will not be allowed to undertake the site visits.
Resources
Resource Materials
Software
Rhino
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.AB01 Bachelor of Built Environment (Honours)
- Apply theoretical, practical and cultural knowledge and skills across a range of disciplines and specialist knowledge and skills in one built environment area.
Relates to: Research: Materials / Products / Processes, Bespoke Interiors - Design and critically evaluate sustainable and creative solutions to social, economic, technological and environmental challenges.
Relates to: Bespoke Interiors - Communicate knowledge, ideas and creative solutions in diverse modes, for a range of contexts and diverse audiences.
Relates to: Research: Materials / Products / Processes, Bespoke Interiors