Course detail

Public Buildings I.

FAST-AG04Acad. year: 2014/2015

The subject enables the students to gain the basic knowledge of designing various typological complexes in the field of public buildings. It constitutes a theoretical preparation for working out simple assignments in seminars and, above all, designing public buildings in the following studio tuition.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. arch. Antonín Odvárka, Ph.D.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student will manage knowledge of the public building typology, school buildings, management and administration builidings, commercial facilities and services, traffic structures.

Prerequisites

The subject is involved in 1st semester of study. It does not connect with any previous discipline. The prerequisite is the general knowledge of culture and history at the secondary school level.

Co-requisites

Basicaly it is an independent discipline with its own methodology.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of Brno University of Technology Rules for Studies and Examinations. In this case it deals with lectures and seminars.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Analyses of realized examples of public buildings in writen form and visual presentation as a condition for classified accreditation.

Course curriculum

1. Children’s day facilities, nurseries and créches
2. Elementary and secondary schools
3. Colleges, lecture halls and laboratories
4. Congress centres
5. Libraries
6. Administration buildings
7. Banks and strongrooms
8. Retail network shops
9. Department stores and shopping centres
10. Public catering, fast-food and restaurants
11. Railway traffic and bus traffic structures
12. Car parks, garages, petrol stations
13. Airports

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Knowledge of the public building typology, school buildings, management and administration builidings, commercial facilities and services, traffic structures

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Kolektiv: Projektování staveb bytových a občanských. SNTL Praha, 1979. (CS)
NEUFERT, E.: Navrhování staveb. Consultinvest Praha, 1995. ISBN 80-901486-4-6 (ČR). (CS)
Vyhláška 369/2009 Sb. o obecných technických požadavcích zabezpečujících bezbariérové užívání staveb. 2009. (CS)

Recommended reading

PEARMAN, H.: Contemporary World Architecture. Phaidon Press London, 1998. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-APS Bachelor's

    branch APS , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. arch. Antonín Odvárka, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Children’s day facilities, nurseries and créches
2. Elementary and secondary schools
3. Colleges, lecture halls and laboratories
4. Congress centres
5. Libraries
6. Administration buildings
7. Banks and strongrooms
8. Retail network shops
9. Department stores and shopping centres
10. Public catering, fast-food and restaurants
11. Railway traffic and bus traffic structures
12. Car parks, garages, petrol stations
13. Airports

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. arch. Antonín Odvárka, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1.-2. Facts for analysis
3.-8. Analyses of realized examples of public buildings
9.-12. Visual presentation of realized examples of public buildings
13. Final evaluation of the results of the work