Course Details

Elements of Architectural Design

Academic Year 2024/25

BGA007 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-APS Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Nature of architecture, its function and message 2. Architectural design as a synthesis of disciplines 3. Theory of a natural place – phenomenology, structure, spirit 4. Theory of an artificial place - phenomenology, structure, spirit 5. Elements of the architectonic typology 6. Space, identification with space, topos-typos 7. Space composition, raumplan, plan-libre, structuralism 8. Architectonic structure 9. Elementary structive components 10. Spatial load-bearing components 11. Elementary composition categories 12. Subjects of architectonic and urbanistic design, a client, an architect, an executor 13. Methodology of designing

Exercise

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the seminar, task 1 2.-3. Layout of the space - "raumplan", consultations 4. Survey of task 1, set up of task 2 - layout of the space - "plan libre" 5.-6. Consultations of the task 2 7. Survey of task 2, task 3 - "building and site", layout 8.-11.Consultations of the task 3. 12. Survey of the task 3 13. Submission of all parts of work including models