Unit details

ARCT5507 Conservation Planning—Developed Research Project on Adaptive Reuse

Credit

6 points

Offering

Availability	Location	Mode
Not available in 2022	UWA (Perth)	Face to face

Content

This unit provides experienced professional guidance for students to apply their practical skills in conservation planning to an individual research project involving the adaptation of significant places to suit new uses. Student research begins by studying a range of adaptive reuse projects carried out on significant buildings in Western Australia, examining the key issues involved in this kind of conservation practice, and assessing their success in conserving significance and extending the useful life of these places. This is followed by a main research project, building on a subject place for which a conservation plan has been prepared in a previous unit, to propose an appropriate adaptive reuse strategy for that place, develop it to sketch-design stage for client and planning approval, and prepare an outline scope of work with preliminary estimates of cost.

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) understand, identify and discuss key issues in the application of conservation principles to projects involving the adaptation of significant places for new uses and (2) apply this understanding and demonstrate a professional level of skill in the development of an individual adaptive reuse project.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) minor survey report and (2) major assignment. Further information is available in the unit outline.

For units commencing in May 2022 or later the availability of the supplementary assessment is subject to confirmation.

Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.

Except where supplementary assessment is not available in a unit, it will be offered to students in all units who:

• Are in good academic standing overall;
• Have passed over half the units taken in the teaching period concerned, except where they are only enrolled in two or less units in the period;
• Have submitted all assessment items in the unit;
• Have achieved a mark between 45 and 49 for the unit overall, or the same mark in any failed component item in the unit; and
• No finding of academic misconduct has been made against them in the unit concerned.

Additionally student may apply for supplementary assessment in any unit which is the final unit required for graduation in there course and where they have achieved a mark between 45 and 49 for the unit overall, or the same mark in any failed component item in the unit.

Unit Coordinator(s)

Dr Ingrid van Bremen

Unit rules

Prerequisites:

ARCT5583 Introduction to Architectural Conservation (formerly ARCT5583 Heritage and Conservation) or ARCT5505 Conservation in Cultural Landscapes, Historic Towns and Urban Precincts; and ARCT5506 Conservation Planning in Practice

Co-requisites:

Nil

Incompatibility:

Nil

Contact hours

meetings with supervisors: typically 1 hour per week