Building Construction 2

Code:

300304

Acronym:

300304

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Architecture and construction

Instance: 2024/2025 - A

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Tecnologia da Construção (TC)
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Degree in Architecture

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIARQ	154	MIARQ	3	-	9	142,5	243

Teaching language

Portuguese
Obs.: English Friendly Course

Objectives

Architecture achieves its disciplinary purpose through the synthesis of multiple constituents, internal and external, still subordinate to the Vitruvian triad today. Within the framework of this discipline, it is particularly important to highlight the relationships and contemporary meaning of firmitas as a basis for the development of an intuitive knowledge of physical phenomena, particularly those associated with the "gravity/energy" pair, and an understanding of good shape in its material, productive and environmental circumstances.

The handling of technical materials as a lever for the design project and realization of forms requires the student to have a qualitative, critical and local approach, where "understanding the construction means apprehending it intellectually after having apprehended it materially, with all [its] senses", (in, Deplazes, Andrea - Constructing architecture. Basel: Birkhauser, 2005, p.19). It is therefore important to value an intellectual and sensitive understanding of the construction simultaneously with the technical-scientific foundation.

Thus, the general objectives of this discipline are:

1. Understand the changes in the environment caused by the construction and use of buildings from the perspective of environmental ethics for design practice;

2. Use construction as a creative lever to create the rational bases for the architectural design project;

3. Develop technical mastery of some construction systems and materials, recognizing their physical limits and applicability;

4. Understanding the process of moving from design project to construction in a multidisciplinary context and graphical regulations.

Learning outcomes and competences

In Construction 2, current materials and construction systems are preferentially addressed, especially those more adapted to the housing program developed in Project 3, at a level of complexity that takes the construction knowledge acquired in the previous year as its starting point. Whether from the theoretical classes or from the theoretical-practical time, where the Project exercise will be privileged, the following learning and skills will be encouraged:


1. Ability to handle building principles in Design Project practice and build a coherent global solution;

2. Ability to identify the principles that govern the functioning of constructive elements, particularly based on mechanical and thermodynamic phenomena;

3. Ability to evaluate, formulate and represent comprehensive constructive solutions and, simultaneously, detailed in the context of housing and its regulations;

4. Ability to apply technical and construction standards and be aware of the environmental impacts of decisions;

5. Ability to identify pathologies and apply durability strategies when choosing solutions and materials;

6. Ability to recognize indicators of internal comfort in housing and ability to implement passive design principles;

7. Ability to integrate sustainability criteria into architecture in a critical position based on energy efficiency criteria, the life cycle of buildings and the environmental impact of materials.

8. Mastery of technical drawing and associated vocabulary, fundamental to communicating the design project to the building.

Working method

Presencial

Program

In the hierarchy of contents, the Semperian proposal will be taken, in which technical solutions originate from the use of certain particular materials and respond to universal principles. And its deepening will resort to the patterns of analysis suggested by Edward Allen: function, constructibility and language (in Allen, Edward - Architectural Detailing. Function, constructibility, aesthetics. New York: Wiley&Sons, 1992).


A. TERMS
1. Gravity and Energy.
2. Basic requirements of the building based on the notion of “shelter”, “comfort”, “integrity”, and “durability”;
3. Construction, regulations and environment.

B. CONSTRUCTIBILITY
1. The philosophy of technical detail. In addition to efficiency, economy and technology;
2. The external environment: visible and invisible; of opaque and transparent;
2.1. The opaque facade (classification, characterization and design);
2.2. The facade and transparent components (classification, characterization and design);
2.3. Coverage (classification, characterization and design);
2.4. The soil (classification, characterization and design of buried elements);
3. The structure, facilities and internal compartmentation;
3.1. Current structural systems (classification, characterization and design);
3.2. Housing infrastructure (classification, characterization and design);
3.3. Partition walls and stairs (classification, characterization and design);
3.4. Fixed furniture and trimming of internal spaces;

C. MATERIALS. Properties, systems and tectonics.
1. Earth;
2. Concrete;
3. Stone;
4. Wood;
5. Metal;
6. Glass;
7. Insulators and mortars.

Mandatory literature

Deplazes , Andrea; Constructing architecture materials processes structures a handbook. ISBN: 978-3-7643-8631-3
Herzog, Thomas,; Facade Construction Manual /. ISBN: 1-299-86366-3

Teaching methods and learning activities

The teaching method in theoretical classes will be expository, crossing quantitative and qualitative aspects of the content and using the analysis of buildings as case studies. Practical courses will preferably be developed in a workshop environment, mainly coinciding with Project pedagogical practice.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho escrito	15,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	75,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	120,00
Trabalho escrito	15,00
Trabalho de investigação	30,00
Estudo autónomo
Frequência das aulas	90,00
Total:	255,00

Eligibility for exams

In accordance with applicable legislation in force.

Calculation formula of final grade

Examinations or Special Assignments

The first practical work will result from the joint and individual reading of a title from a bibliography provided in the context of construction materials and systems. It involves coming into close contact with a particular universe of knowledge in Architecture focused on construction's history, theory, techniques and technologies. The aim is to investigate the applications of certain materials in construction based on recent practices. The work to be presented will take the form of a reading sheet that will communicate, through text, image and drawing, the syntheses of the material culture in question and the quantitative and qualitative performance of the material, complemented with case studies and (re)design of constructive details. This first work aims to have contact with the basic bibliography of the curricular unit and to master specific subjects capable of being amplified and reproduced in other contexts. Using synthesis operations and (re)design as a knowledge-inducing instrument, the aim is for students to stabilize some technological content relating to the exterior surroundings of buildings and integrate sustained technical and tectonic aspects into their design thinking. The recognition of these capabilities the quality of the text and drawings, will be the main criteria for evaluating the work.


In the second practical work, the relationship between architectural form and structural solution will be addressed based on the premises associated with coordination and spatial modular dimension, as this constitutes a basic criterion in the design of multi-family residential buildings.

Based on "Exercise 1", previously developed in Project UC 3, the aim is to return to the solution left in suspense to refine it to a 1/100 scale by including the most appropriate structural systems to ensure the stability of the construction. This development must also consider the graphic expression resulting from the scale of the drawings, and the integration of information on other constructive aspects of the buildings, namely their external surroundings, should not be neglected.

In this work, the handling and integration into the project of knowledge acquired in classes on structural systems will be valued, as well as understanding the functioning and dimensioning of the various structural elements and the representation and graphic expression of the drawings presented.

The third practical work focuses on the buildings under development in the 3rd year Project, determining in coordination with UC Project 3 the solution by successive approximations from scale 1/50 to scale 1/2 and targeting various construction components in the context of formulating an Execution Project.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

In accordance with applicable legislation in force.

Classification improvement

In accordance with applicable legislation in force.