12.5 Martin Fowler. First semester Up to 6 hours of lectures, tutorials, studio and laboratory work, and site visits per week. On completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate that they have an understanding of:

• the purpose of structure in buildings and the principal modes of structural actions;
• masonry and timber construction practices commonly used in Australian domestic-scaled building and landscape design;
• site-analysis and site-works for domestic-scaled buildings and landscapes;
• the documentation conventions shared by architects, builders, planners and landscape architects.

Site Construction: Site and landscape construction including the use of masonry, concrete and timber; introduction to contours and site works including codes and regulations. Structures: Modes of structural action and the behaviour of materials for a range of simple structural systems. Techniques for approximating the size of structural members. Communication: Recording, analysing and reporting techniques with an introduction to basic drawing techniques for landscape and construction. Assignments (eg: exercises, site reports, class presentations), equivalent to not more than 5,000 words, and one examination of up to 2 hours (which could take the form of a class test). (Details, including the weighting of assessment, will be made available in the first 2 weeks of semester). Exercises may relate to work being undertaken in other subjects.