Course detail

Design of Buildings and Structural Complexes

FAST-7H7Acad. year: 2018/2019

The design of a building area and units with an emphasis on architectural and compositional elements. Principles, relationships and structural form function typology in correlation with the construction of the area. Functional zones, operational relations and design conceptions. Synthesis of requirements and approaches in the event of object documentation. The analysis of momentous works of world renowned architecture, compositional fundamentals, ideas and creative designs. This subject leads to a deeper perception of architecture, to the definition of individual compositional phenomena and to the possibility of their application to solutions of simple architecture.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

Typology of buildings, architectural work and computer aided design (CAD), intersting present architecture

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

Thirteen weeks of the term divided into three essentional tasks of desgn problems.
1. Architecture's compositonal category (space, amtter, form, symmetry, asymmetry, proportion, scale, optical illusion)
2. Nowadays space architectural conception
3. Part of the architectural solution order's work

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Finish of this subjest is deeper preception of the architecture, definition of compositional principles and make possible to aplicate knowledge for solution simple architectural work

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

Čajková: Občanské stavby I.. ČVUT 1999
Neufert, E.: Navrhování staveb. CONSULTINVEST Praha 1995
Tichý, Dvořák: Architektonická kompozice. ČVUT Praha 1991

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer