B. Architecture

Overview

Welcome to our esteemed architecture school, where creativity, innovation, and design excellence converge to shape the architects of tomorrow. Our Bachelor of Architecture Design program, accredited by the Pakistan Council of Architects and Town Planners (PCATP), offers a transformative educational experience that prepares you to redefine the built environment with visionary ideas and impeccable design skills. The program focuses not only on design principles but also on interdisciplinary collaboration, sustainability, social awareness, and digital and emerging technologies. This degree is suited for those who aspire to contribute to the shaping of the living and human environment. The desired attributes expected from a graduate of this program are achieved through a well-designed academic program supplemented by the ethos of SDAAT, which emphasizes skill development and social responsibility.

In today’s world, architects play an essential role in addressing various global challenges, including urbanization, climate change, and social inequality. At our school, the design studio is a sanctuary where students are encouraged to push the boundaries of conventional thinking. Here, students and faculty embark on a journey of reframing, exploring the depths of creativity and learning to shape spaces that breathe life. Guided by experienced mentors and engaged in hands-on projects, the Bachelor in Architecture program infuses a unique artistic flair into the built environment and infrastructure.

Why Study at PAF IAST?

Location and Ambience

PAF IAST is nestled in natural mountains that flank its campus from all sides, offering one even the ravishing view of snow-capped peaks of Nathiagali and natural winding trails. To its north-west is Tarbela Lake, a journey of only a few kilometers from the campus. Set in the middle of the campus is a natural lake, fed by the springs of surrounding mountains. The campus is just a 3-kilometer drive from the Hazara Motorway. The ideal setting equally conducive to academic activity and aesthetic sensibilities of the human eye is a serene island of its own kind, far from the chaos, congestion, and cacophony of metropolitan culture. The major cities like Islamabad, Abbottabad, are just an hour’s drive, while small towns like Wah, Hasanabadal, Taxila, and Swabi can be reached in just half an hour.

Technology Advancement and Foreign Partnership

This institute is an emerging center of excellences, with its own technology park. All faculty members hold PhD degrees in appropriate disciplines. By virtue of its wide array of facilities and the facilitation for its students to learn and benefit both from classroom teaching and faculty trained at premier Austrian universities/institutions, the institution is ideally cut out for imparting state-of–the-art engineering and allied education in Pakistan. The institute enjoys close linkages with top ranking universities in Austria and China. We have already concluded with them formal agreements regarding student and faculty exchange programs, provision of dual degrees in certain areas, and the training support from foreign faculty. cities like Islamabad, Abbottabad, are just an hour’s drive, while small towns like Wah, Hasanabadal, Taxila and Swabi can be reached in just half an hour.

Academia-Industry Relationship

There is a strong synergetic relationship between academia and industry which paves the way for job opportunities for students even in the midst of their studies. PAF IAST will serve as a welcome platform for the industry to share their requirements for a skilled workforce. This will enable the institute to incorporate their valuable inputs in practical vocational training and expose the students to industrial perspectives

On-Spot Industry Internship

It will be a mandatory requirement for every student to do an internship every semester in an appropriate industry. This will garner them practical experience related to their respective degree programs. To crown it all, Technology Park will afford them rare opportunities to apply themselves innovatively and become promising entrepreneurs.

Need and Merit-based Scholarships

Different types of local and foreign scholarship opportunities are available on need and merit base.

Employment Opportunities

The bachelor degree in architecture provide students a great opportunity to develop both technical skills and creative ones. And because of the broad range of skills involved in this degree, students studying architecture can find career opportunities in many industries including interior design, urban planning and construction management.

Here are some of the many fields where you can use your architecture degree:

  • Architectural technologist
  • Interior and spatial designer
  • Building surveyor
  • Town planner
  • Production designer
  • Historic buildings inspector
  • Structural engineer
  • Conservationist

Course Curriculum

SDAAT Foundation - 1st Semester

Code

Course

Credit

SS- 102

English Language & Communication Skills  

3(3-0)

SS-112

Pakistan Studies (2)

2(2-0)

COMP-102

Introduction to ICT

3(2-1)

DAA-101

Foundation Drawing

3(0-3)

DAA-151

History of Art & Design-I

2(2-0)

DAA-121

Introduction to Digital Tools

2(0-2)

DAA-102

Object in 3D

2(0-2)

 

Total Credit

17(9-8)

SDAAT Foundation - 2nd Semester

Code

Course

Credit

SS-111

Islamic Studies

2(2-0)

MGT-262

Entrepreneurship

3(3-0)

DAA –141

Introduction to Digital Media

2(2-0)

DAA-132

Design Thinking

2(2-0)

DAA – 103

Drawing-I

2(0-2)

DAA – 122

Digital Tools-I

3(0-3)

DAA – 104

Introduction to Drafting

2(0-2)

 

Total Credit

18(11- 5)

Semester 3

Code

Course

Credit

MTH-101

Technical and Business Writing

3(3-0)

DAA – 201

Mathematics for Art & Design

3(3-0)

ARC – 213

Architecture Studio – I

5(0-5)

DAA-241

Fundamentals of Photography

2(0-2)

AID – 214

Building Materials and Concepts – I

2(1-1)

AID-221

Computer Modelling

2(0-2)

AID-232

Visualization and Representation

2(0-2)

 

Total

19(7-12)

Semester 4

Code

Course

Credit

COMP-111

Programming Fundamentals

4(3-1)

DAA -205

Project Management

3(3-0)

ARC – 214

Architecture Studio – II

6(1-5)

AID – 215

Building Materials and Concepts – II

2(1-1)

ARC – 217

Structural Design and Construction

2(1-1)

ARC-251

History & Theory of Architecture – I

2(2-0)

 

Total

19(10-9)

Semester 5

Code

Course

Credit

DAA-305

Research Methods & Report Writing

2 (2-0)

ARC – 311

Architecture Studio – III

6 (0-6)

ARC – 215

Building Services and Systems

2 (2-0)

AID – 341

Computational Design and Application

2 (0-2)

ARC – 351

History & Theory of Architecture – II

2 (2-0)

 

Elective

2(2-0)

 

 Total

16 (88)

Semester 6

Code

Course

Credit

DAA-206

Marketing

2 (2-0)

SS-322

Professional Ethics

3 (3-0)

ARC – 313

Architecture Studio – IV

6 (0-6)

ARC – 352

History & Theory of Urbanism – I

2 (2-0)

ARC – 353

Understanding Nanotecture

3 (3-0)

 

Elective

2(2-0)

 

 Total

18(10-8)

Semester 7

Code

Course

Credit

DAA-221

Organizational Behavior

3 (3-0)

ARC – 411

Architecture Studio V

8 (0-8)

ARC – 451

History & Theory of Urbanism – II

2 (2-0)

AID – 421

Lighting and Acoustics Design

2 (2-0)

ARC – 452

Advanced Building Technologies

2 (2-0)

 

Elective

2 (2-0)

 

 Total

19(118)

Semester 8

Code

Course

Credit

ARC – 412

Architecture Studio – VI

10 (2-8)

ARC – 413

Urban Design and Planning

2 (2-0)

ARC-453

Disaster Resilience and Development

2 (2-0)

 

Elective

3(3-0)

 

Total

17 (9-8)

Semester 9

Code

Course

Credit

ARC – 512

Professional Practice

2 (2-0)

ARC – 561

Architecture Thesis – I

10 (2-8)

 

Elective

2(2-0)

 

Total

14 (6-8)

Semester 10

Code

Course

Credit

ARC – 562

Architecture Thesis – II

12 (0-12)

ARC-513

Thesis Report

2 (2-0)

 

Total

14 (2-12)

Bachelor Programs

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