Course detail
Studio - HOUSE AND PLACE
FA-AT2Acad. year: 2022/2023
Creative studio work is the main and essential means of teaching architecture. It is based on the "learning by doing" method, i.e. gaining knowledge and skills by practical application. It consists in the dialogue of the teacher with the student over a project that is being developed.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
– The student will know the basic standard requirements for the design of buildings and will be able to apply them in the design.
– The student will acquire skills for elaboration of architectural study documentation.
– The student will be able to choose a suitable construction system for a concrete design of a construction.
– The student will be able to understand the context of the place and respond to it in the design.
Prerequisites
– Typology of residential and civil buildings
– Theory of Architecture (according to year)
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Creative studio work is the main and essential means of teaching architecture. It is based on the "learning by doing" method, i.e. gaining knowledge and skills by practical application. It consists in the dialogue of the teacher with the student over a project that is being developed.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Studio work is marked using ECTS mark scale.
Scoring of all components of the proposal and their weighted average.
– Place, interpretation, analysis, synthesis, idea
– Processes, operation
– Materiality, structure, construction
– Form, arrangement,
– Presentation, adjustment, defense
E: sufficient design, fulfillment of all assigned tasks, designed object is stable, does not show danger to life and health, meets legislative requirements (standards)
D: craftly correct design with partial drawbacks
C: good design, craft correct
B: very good design or excellent design with some shortcomings
A: excellent design with personal benefit, all aspects and components of the proposal excellent to excellent
The paper will contain a practical and theoretical part (method and reasoning of the proposal).
Mandatory annexes of the practical part:
– text (including background, analysis, objectives, principles and concept of design, construction and operation diagram)
– documentation of working sketches and photo documentation of working models
– the situation of wider relations
– the situation
– floor plans of individual floors
– cuts
– views
– spatial representation of the designed object incl. place in the context of the place
– spatial display of the interior
– architectural detail
– model (including photo documentation)
Mandatory attachments can be specified in more detail by the supervisor in the assignment. The paper will contain in a presentable form attachment containing both digital and manual processing.
Course curriculum
The content of the course will be:
– Analysis and interpretation, synthesis, idea and solution
– Development of the construction program,
– Sketches and design in the standard scope of architectural study, graphic representation of the concept,
– Presentation of graphical and verbal methods and results, adjustment, defence
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Submission of works according to the assignment and observance of predetermined scope and deadline for submission of partial tasks and proposal.
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Ernst Neufert : Navrhování staveb, normy a předpisy související s tématem zadání (CS)
Ching, F.: rchitecture: Form, Space, and Order (CS)
Skripta dle zadání - viz založka Poznámka (CS)
von Meiss, P.: Od formy k místu (CS)
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Studio work
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- plan view, sections and views , scale 1:200
- situation plan, scale 1:500
- possibly, design of internal equipment, scale 1:20
- model
- technical report