Final Year Project I PROJECT PROPOSAL

& SITE SELECTION

Samir Al Qeisi

13/02/2017

PROJECT PROPOSAL

& SITE SELECTION

General introduction

1. Proposal statement

2. Importance / Use of the project

3. Aims

4. Objectives

5. Methodolgy

6. Scope and limitations

7. Site details

General introduction

• What is a Final Year Project Report (for designers)

• Document presenting the results of an ANALYTIC work

about the SETTING of a DESIGN PROBLEM

• So… the FYP report is not only an end in itself but also

means to an end.

• FYP report talks about itself and about FYP project

Proposal statement

• TITLE of your report !

• You need a working title to focus on throughout your FYP.

It may be that you will improve on the wording later but

make sure the title you begin with means something.

• Your statement should:

• Outline the problem

• Describe the nature and purpose of your research

• Indicate what you hope to achieve

Importance / Use

• Your PROJECT proposal must be delineated in terms of:

• Name of your project

• Short description of the context

• Importance of the project

• Sector of society concerned with the project

• Scope of the project

Aims

• Aims are:

• An intention or aspiration; what you hope to achieve.

• Aims are statements of intent, written in broad terms.

• Aims set out what you hope to achieve at the end of the

project.

• Your FYP report Aims might concern for example:

• Outlining the functions in such a project

• Determining the possible styles

• Developing a spatial program

• …

Objectives

• Objectives are:

• A goal or a step on the way to meeting the aim; how you

will achieve it.

• Objectives use specific statements which define measurable

outcomes

• Your FYP report objectives related to an aim of “Outlining the

functions” might concern for example:

• Conducting a literature review

• Analyzing the functions in similar buildings

• …

Methodolgy

• Methodology concerns the logical sequence of

procedural steps for achieving the objectives

• For example, what are the logical sequential steps to take in

order to achieve “case studies analysis” ?

• Choosing the cases

• Site visits

• …

Scope and limitations

• What you will do and what you will not do !

• Delimiting the extent of your investigation

• Type of building

• Interior – Exterior

• …

• Setting the boundaries of your investigation

• you may have too much material to cover so you will need to

put some limits in place on the project

• you may not be able to conduct some research due to

constraints imposed by time, cost or availability of materials.

• …

Site details

• All the DOCUMENTS that you will need in the setting

of your project

• LOCATION

• SITE PLAN – MESURMENTS – TOPOGRAPHY

• SITE SECTIONS

• ELEVATIONS (SURROUNDINGS)

• PICTURES

• ANY OTHER INFORMATION