Course detail
Studio – Free Assignment 1
FA-AT4-AAcad. year: 2022/2023
Working in a design studio is the main method of teaching architecture which comprehensively works with other methods of teaching process. It is based on the method „learning by doing“, i.e. gaining knowledge and skills when applying them in practice. It is a dialogue of pedagogues and students about the work-in-progress projects. The integral part of teaching are architecture critiques.
In Studio Free Assignment, students develop their knowledge and skills to create an architectural design gained in the studios: Small House, Large House, and Town and Place. The complexity and scale of the solved problem is given by the assignment.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
– Depending on the type of assignment, students will acquire the principles of masterplanning and the corresponding operational, structural and urban design relations.
– Students will know the basic standard requirements for designing buildings and will be able to apply them in the design.
– Students will acquire the ability to produce documentation for architectural or urban study.
– Students will be able to adequately select a structural system suitable for designing the given building or a complex of buildings.
– Students will be able to understand the context of the place and to reflect it in their design.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
It is compulsory to submit the project in the form of architectural study and to include (if the supervisor does not require otherwise):
– author's report (including the brief, analyses, aims, principles and the concept of the design, structural and operational schema),
– working sketches and photographs of working models,
– location plan,
– site plan,
– floor plans of individual storeys,
– sections,
– elevations,
– interior design,
– interior design detail at the scale 1:20 and more detailed,
– spatial rendering of the designed structure including its placement in the local context,
– spatial rendering of interior,
– physical model (including its photographs).
The project is submitted in printed and electronic form in accordance with the FA internal standard “Study rules”.
The required annexes can be further specified by the project supervisor in the “project assignment”.
The following components of the design are evaluated:
– place, interpretation, analysis, synthesis, idea;
– processes, operation;
– materiality, structure, construction;
– form, arrangement;
– presentation, adjustation, defence;
– student´s approach to the project elaboration.
The weight of individual components is defined by the supervisor.
The grading scale is given in Article 14 of the Study and Examination Rules of BUT. The recommended grading scale is the following:
– A: excellent project showing personal contribution, all aspects and components of the project are excellent
– B: very good project, or excellent project with partial deficiencies
– C: good project, skillfully designed and technically correct
– D: skillfully designed and technically correct project with partial deficiencies
– E: sufficiently developed project, with all assigned tasks completed, and complies with the legal requirements (standards)
The works which do not meet the minimal requirements (specified as E) are graded failed (grade F).
Course curriculum
I. Analysis of the location and assignment, excursion, work on the concept
II. Work on architectural, operational, structural and/or urban design
III. Completion of the project, work on the project presentation
Work placements
Aims
Assignments may include:
– interior design, scenography, and exhibition design;
– complex public buildings;
– urban design of whole settlements, landscape design, urban planning;
– renovation including heritage conservation;
– experimental assignment.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
The particular time schedule of the above mentioned compulsory lessons, or further compulsory participation, might be further specified by the project supervisor in the “project assignment”. The project assignment must be published in the Intranet FA simultaneously with the announcement of the topic description (before the registration of students).
In the case of a student's apology and with approval of the supervisor, personal participation may be substituted with online participation in the studio.
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
- compulsory prerequisite
Basics of Architecture - compulsory prerequisite
Studio – Small House - recommended prerequisite
Studio – Large House - recommended prerequisite
Studio – Town and Place
Basic literature
Vyhláška č. 268/2009 Sb. o technických požadavcích na stavby (CS)
Vyhláška č. 398/2009 Sb. o obecných technických požadavcích zabezpečujících bezbariérové užívání staveb (CS)
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme B_A+U Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Studio work
Teacher / Lecturer
doc. Ing. arch. Gabriel Kopáčik, Dr.
doc. Ing. arch. Maxmilian Wittmann, Ph.D.
prof. Ing. arch. Helena Zemánková, CSc.
Ing. arch. Katarína Falathová
Ing. arch. Marek Obtulovič
Ing. arch. Vítězslav Nový
prof. Ing. arch. Hana Urbášková, Ph.D.
Ing.arch. MArch Jan Kristek, Ph.D.
Ing. arch. Kateřina Dokoupilová Pazderková, Ph.D.
Ing. arch. Kateřina Singer
Ing. arch. Luboš Františák, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. arch. Ivo Boháč, Ph.D.
Ing. arch. Jan Kratochvíl
doc. Ing. arch. Josef Kiszka
Ing. arch. Jan Mléčka, Ph.D.
Ing. arch. Vlasta Loutocká
mgr inź. arch Szymon Rozwalka
doc. Ing. arch. Jiří Palacký, Ph.D.
Ing. arch. Václav Šana