• 1. Horizontal load-bearing structures – functional and mechanical requirements. Connections of horizontal and vertical load-bearing structures. Classification of horizontal load-bearing structures. Spandrel beams.
• 2. Overhanging and recessed structures – balcony, loggia, portico, oriel windows and cornices – material solutions, mechanical requirements, thermal design.
• 3. Groundworks and excavations. Founding soil. Construction and hydrogeological survey.
• 4. Shallow and deep foundation – Foundation types, material, and structural solutions. Foundation construction on property boundaries.
• 5. Substructure. Damp proofing – design of damp proof systems. Protection against radon gas infiltration.
• 6. Expansion joints, settlement joints and construction joints in load bearing and non-loadbearing structures.
• 7. Roofs – classification of roofs. Pitched roofs / Traditional truss solutions – classification, structural solutions. Contemporary solutions. Roof compositions above attic spaces.
• 8. Roofs – Warm flat roofs – design principles, dewatering solutions, compositions of warm flat roof variants, and materials.
• 9. Roofs – Cold flat roofs – design principles, dewatering solutions, materials, roofing, ventilation of the air cavity.
• 10. Chimneys and ventilation shafts – design principles, structural requirements, types, and solutions.
• 11. Windows, doors, gates. Variants and material solutions, technological and installation procedure.
• 12. Floor – functional requirements, the function of layers, materials, thermal expansion.
• 13. Soffit / Lower ceiling – functional requirements, structural and design principles, types of lower ceilings. Finishes – plaster, paints, coats, frescos, tiles.

The output of practices is a set of drawings which are part of the building documentation for building permit application. The outputs do take up the form of studies or drawings.

• 1. Introduction to practices. Individual assignment – Detached house with the basement and 2 stories above ground level. Plans of above and underground stories given modular coordination and general requirements of typology. Note: The outputs of follow-up practices are to respect the individual assignment.
• 2. Plans of 1st basement, 1st, and second floors.
• 3. Stairway design.
• 4. Horizontal load-bearing structures – Structural solution of 1st and 2nd-floor slabs.
• 5. Supplementing the floor plans with the stairway.
• 6. Design of foundations. Placing building on the terrain. Site plan.
• 7. Section A-A.
• 8. Design of Queen post roof truss.
• 9. Design of warm flat roof.
• 10. Supplementation of Section A-A with the Queen post roof truss and warm flat roof.
• 11. Elevations building. Window installation into an opening.
• 12. Floor composition design.
• 13. Submission and final evaluation of presented work.