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Design Study 1 will focus on a design project for a tall tower, for example a combination of residential and office space, or space that has the capability of being used for either function. This project will be located on a site in the UK. Students design options that are driven by fire safety objectives. Students study how both strategic and detailed fire safety considerations affect the nature of the design and the, sometimes-uncomfortable, relationship between fire safety and other design drivers such as energy conservation. Students examine the relationship amongst relevant construction legislation, the design strategies that are being investigated, and the role of building procurement in the context of these fire safety strategies.Ìý

Learning OutcomesÌý

On successfully completing the module you will demonstrate the following learning outcomes, in the context of a high rise residential/office tower under performance based (UK) legislation and government guidance:

1. Create fire safe strategic layout options with active smoke control and fire suppression systems, and evaluate these against design, social and sustainability criteria including long-term flexibility in use, daylighting, and cost.

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, the location and nature of specialist fire equipment, detection, active separation and fire and smoke suppression systems.Ìý

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

4. Evaluate building envelope proposals either digitally or physically in a fire hall. 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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