Teaching fire safety through design-based immersion of National Building Code-2016 provisions to students of undergraduate architecture: a student feedback on the pedagogy technique

Abstract

This study is based on the feedback received from students of 3rd year Architectural undergraduate degree at a leading architectural education college leading to a professional license to practice as an architect in India. The study tests the design based immersive integration of National Building Code 2016 and its fire provisions into the curriculum in order to overlay fire safety interventions on design projects familiar to students. The detailed course pedagogical structure has been presented. For feedback, an 11 point questionnaire was circulated which was answered by 32 students in anonymous mode in order to prevent any conflict of interest. The results show an overall positive response where the students prefer a design integration based fire safety curriculum which introduces fire codes to the students in the applied format