This document provides an overview of the course ARCN423: Urban Design. It includes information about the course staff, learning objectives, competencies addressed, and schedule. The course aims to introduce students to urban design and its relationship to planning and architecture. It will discuss urban design theories and principles regarding culture and the natural environment. Students will learn how to conduct site analysis and create urban design projects for large sites that consider natural, visual and cultural dimensions. The course will consist of lectures, tutorials, and practical sessions over 15 weeks. Assessment will include a midterm exam, semi-final, and final project submission.

1. ARC 523,ARCN423,ARCn423: Urban Design
Level: 4 (Fall-2024)
Pre-requisite: ARCN324
Lecture 1
Introduction to Urban Design
A.Prof :Mehad Emara
DR: Marwa Mohamed
Architecture and Urban Design

2. Course Staff
A.Prof :Mehad Emara
DR: Marwa Mohamed
DR: Nehal El Mahdy
Eng: Eman Gazawy
Eng: Salma Sayed
Eng: GhadeerYossef
Eng :SaraTawfik

3. Course Learning Objectives:
• The course aims to introduce students to urban design to the natural and built environments and
enhancing the students' ability to apply different approaches of urban design in the Egyptian
environmental context. The course discusses the urban design definition, its relationship to
planning and architectural design theories in addition to the other approaches and concept of
urban design regarding the culture and natural environment as the basis of the urban design
principles. It discusses the special morphology in cities throughout illustrating their character,
elements, perception, and its natural and cultural composition determinacy while
understanding the urban design and context, its framework for the city, which includes the
composition elements and the basics of urban design as a tool for urban development. Students
will also be able to conduct site analysis which includes studying natural, visual and cultural
dimensions in addition to the variables, elements and effects of the site. It also includes a study for
influence of nature in the design from functional and visual points of view, in addition to
illustrating the landscape and its uses for achieving the ecological balance students will gain the
knowledge of the vocabulary, design elements, and the natural and built sites formation and
conducting a practical urban design project
Lecture (1) ARCN423: Urban Design

4. Program Competencies served by the course
• Produce designs that meet building users’ requirements through understanding
the relationship between people and buildings, and between buildings and their
environment; and the need to relate buildings and the spaces between them to
human needs and scale.
• Generate ecologically responsible, environmental conservation and rehabilitation
designs; through understanding of structural design, construction, technology, and
engineering problems associated with building designs.
• Apply technological standardization concepts for building construction, urban and
regional planning with acceptable quality integration with economic, social,
technical, and needs for all stakeholders.
Lecture (1) ARCN423: Urban Design

5. Program Learning Outcomes served by the course By the end of
this course the student will be able to
• Identify the meaning of urban design based on the application of urban
design concepts and theories .
• List the urban design elements in designing urban projects .
• Define Sustainable urban approach.
• Survey the suggested site to be designed.
• Analyse the site through project studies such as) climatic studies - site
studies.... )
• Create their own alternative urban spaces in large scale sites

6. Course Contents

7. AssessmentTiming and Grading

8. • Facilities required for teaching and learning:
MicrosoftTeams (online Learning)
MOODLE (E-learning and Course material)
ARCN423
ARCn423
ARC 523

9. Contents
Week Sunday Monday Topic
Lecture
hours
Tutorial
hours
Practical
hours
1 1-10 2-10 Lecture 1 : Introduction to Urban Design 2 4 -
2 8-10 9-10 Lecture 2: How to design layout? 2 4 -
3 15-10 16-10 Lecture 3 :Sustainability approach + project intro. 2 4 -
4 22-10 23-10 Introduction to project, Site analysis ( project studies) 2 4
5 29-10 30-10 Conceptual designs, Site analysis 2 4 -
6 5-11 6-11 Layout alternatives Discussion 2 4 -
7 12-11 13-11 Assessment (MidTerm Exam) 2 4
8 19-11 20-11 Layout, elevation Discussion 2 4 -
9 26-11 27-11 Layout alternatives Discussion 2 4 -
10 3-12 4-12 Alternative Layout + Elevation 2 4 -
11 10-12 11-12 Elevation + Details 2 4 -
12 17-12 18-12 Layout, elevation, section, details 2 4 -
13 24-12 25-12 Simi Final ( All project) 2 4 -
14 31-12 1-1 Final Submission 2 4 -
15 7-1 8-1 Revision, Exam Preparation 2 4 -
Total hours 30 60 -

10. •Urban design scale
city
building

11. • Relates to single building
• Insists on function of one building(residential –
commercial –…)
• Form of one building (colors – materials….)
• No focus on spaces between buildings or other
buildings
What is Architectural Design ?

12. What’s UP?Taking a Look at
Urban Planning
• Layout of neighbourhoods, cities and
regions Fulfilling needs of community &
economy
• Balancing the built & natural environ
• Organizes the physical components of the
city
• Deals with functional relationships
between the elements of the city uses of
the buildings- streets- transportation -
infrastructure….
• focus on function not on aesthetic

14. So, there is a
need to an
intermediat
e scale

15. WHAT IS URBAN
DESIGN?
• Art of Making Places for
People • Human Interaction
with the environment •
Involves places such as
Squares, Piazza, Streets,
Pedestrian Precinct
Urban design is concerned
with the arrangement,
appearance and function of
our suburbs, towns and cities.
u It is both a process and an
outcome of creating localitiesin
which people live, engage with
each other, and engage with the
physical place around them.
Deals with groups of buildings
and the urban spaces between
these buildings

16. Thank you