Building Construction 2

Code:

300304

Acronym:

300304

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Architecture and construction

Instance: 2023/2024 - 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	161	MIARQ	3	-	9	142,5	243

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The goal of this discipline is to introduce the theme of building construction, especially the understanding of the physics of buildings, which is the basis for the exercise of the project in its transition from project to construction.

It is intended that students learn about the following topics: Project and innovation; systems and construction elements; building functions and requirements; types of materials, their application and behavior; the stakeholders in the construction, function and responsibility; the concepts of building construction, phasing and management; the legal framework concerning the construction of buildings.

Learning outcomes and competences

It is intended that the student become enable to identify the constituent elements of a construction, as well as to design some constructive solutions and details. It is required that the student create theoretical and practical knowledge on subjects transversal to the construction of buildings, such as energy, sustainability, environmental quality, among others, allowing personal reflection and discussion of these issues. Finally, group work is proposed as a way to stimulate teamwork, to research and to inflame the interest in technological development and innovation in architecture.

Working method

Presencial

Program

The Construction 2 course, which we will call C2faup, is an annual discipline, divided into semesters, with 9 credits, integrated in the 3rd year of the Integrated Master in Architecture (MIARQ) of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP).It has an autonomous theoretical and practical program and seeks to articulate with the pedagogical methods and aims of the course, in close coordination with the Project course, proving the idea that Architecture is a discipline that is closer to production and construction than to the processes of representation and visual communication. 

In a first phase, this discipline will approach the new methods, systems and constructive processes of the Architecture and then go along and support the individual project of each student in order to be able to identify the disciplinary aspects of the theoretical and scientific universe of the construction physics, deepened during the practical classes of construction, in the final work of the Project course. 

The Program, Contents, Methods, Objectives, Results and Modes of Evaluation.
 
Design and Construction; The construction of architecture, The construction of buildings, "Let's Go to the construction site": Casa na Maia, The Project and Project Management, The Architectural Project Construction, Regulations and Legislation Energy, Sustainability and LCAs in Architecture The Building Materials, The Building Construction systems The Foundations, The Structure The Wall, BIM and new ways of Designing: 3D, 4D and 5D, Innovation and Technology in Construction and Architecture Cladding, Exterior openings, Installations (networks, ITED, HVAC, home automation), The notion of comfort, Insulation and waterproofing, The construction of the interior space Quality in construction, Construction pathologies rehabilitation project, The construction of urban space

Mandatory literature

Deplazes Andrea 340; Constructing architecture. ISBN: 3-7643-7189-7
Allen Edward; Como funciona un edificio. ISBN: 84-252-1089-5
Schmitt Heinrich; Tratado de construcción. ISBN: 84-252-0092-X
Paricio Ignacio; La construcción de la arquitectura
Ábalos Inaki; Tecnica y arquitectura en la ciudad contemporânea, 1950-1990. ISBN: 84-86763-74-6
Derry T.K.; Historia de la tecnologia. ISBN: 84-323-0281-3
Millaruelo Aparicio José 205; Ordenación del territorio y desarrollo sostenible. ISBN: 987-507-294-x
Almeida Vitor Carlos Trindade Abrantes; O isolamento térmico da envolvente dos edifícios face ao regulamento (RCCTE). ISBN: 972-95969-0-5
Freitas Vasco Manuel Araújo Peixoto de 1959- 340; Humidade em paredes de edificios. ISBN: 972-752-021-9
Freitas Vasco Manuel Araújo Peixoto de 1959-; Humidade ascensional. ISBN: 978-972-752-101-2
Silva José António Raimundo Mendes da 340; Reabilitação
Carlos Nuno Lacerda Lopes; Novas questões sobre o ensino da construção. ISBN: 978-989-98808-8-7
Lopes Carlos Nuno Lacerda; Construção 2.0. ISBN: 978-989-98807-1-8
Lacerda Lopes, Carlos Nuno; Rumo à Profissão, Lello Editores, 2010. ISBN: 972-48-1881-8
Lopes Carlos Nuno Lacerda; Frente & verso, documentos periódicos de construção 20

Complementary Bibliography

Lopes Carlos Nuno Lacerda; Projecto e modos de habitar
Lopes Carlos Nuno Lacerda; Arquitectura e modos de habitar. ISBN: 978-989-98073-0-3

Teaching methods and learning activities

It will be used the expository methodology during the theoretical classes and the investigation method, sometimes individual, or sometimes in a group, during the practical classes. It is intended that the student interpret, analyze and discuss the topics covered in these classes and make an in-depth investigation on some of the topics that are of interest to them. This work of collecting and processing information should then be synthesized and presented in the suggested practical work. It is intended that this research be developed during the time of the practical classes and with the support of the teachers, being then presented publicly to the colleagues. The visits to the project intend to give an experimental dimension to the discipline, introducing the experience of the work and the problematic that the architect, as author of the project and coordinator of the different areas that make up the general project, faces in the construction of buildings and architecture.

This approach is not intended to be an approach to the methods, models or work processes of the professional pathway, but the student is expected to develop a work methodology, based on research and scientific research, taking Architecture as an attitude of synthesis, based and based on the systematization of information, knowledge and understanding of physical and technological phenomena and, to that extent, construction discipline 2 should be an essential stimulus to the deepening and necessary coherence of the project idea.

Software

Software BIM

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Trabalho laboratorial	80,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	0,00
Trabalho de investigação	0,00
Trabalho escrito	0,00
Trabalho laboratorial	0,00
Total:	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Minimum attendance registration according to MIARQ regulation, participation in classes and positive classification in the work done.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final evaluation will be made by weighted average with the following relative weight:
• Individual works - 70%
• Group work - 30%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Theoretical classes and practical classes will be according to the class schedule. Visits will be made to works that will take place at a time and day to be agreed and will replace the practical or theoretical class, depending on the case. 1- Group Work Building Construction Systems and Materials. This exercise proposes experimentation and materialization with a view to understanding the process, phasing and construction elements and materials, through the development of a Shebenta and the construction of a Model that accurately and faithfully portrays a detail or part of a construction system used in the studied building. It is proposed that the work be carried out in a group with the length of an article in A4 format and in accordance with the graphic standards defined in a document to be made available as a template and in accordance with the exercise statement, calendar and research and work methodology. The themes and development of work must be carried out during practical classes. The theme of the work will be framed within the following themes described, or focus on another material or construction system proposed by the students:

T01 | Solid brick T02 | Masonry T03 | Concrete T04 | Wood T05 | Zinc T06 | Copper T07 | Aluminum T08 | Iron T09 | Glass T10 | Ceramics T11 | Stone T12 | Plastic T13 | Textile T14 | Plasters and plasters T15 | Insulation materials T16 | Energy saving mat. T17 | Ecological and recycled materials T08 | Paper or Textile T19 | Earth T20 | Paints, varnishes and colors T21| Structure T22| Coatings T 23 | The Construction of the Facade T 24 | Coverages T 25 | Ventilation and Comfort T 26 | Networks T 27 | Applied materials T 28 | Pathologies T 29| Gaps and Shading T 30| Innovation and technology Other themes/materials may be proposed by students for approval.

 Other themes/materials may be proposed by students for approval. This exercise proposes experimentation and materialization with a view to understanding the process, phasing and construction elements and materials, through the construction of a model that accurately and faithfully portrays a detail or part of a construction system used in the studied building. In this work, a methodology should be developed in which the student is asked to: analyze the project, visit the work, collect graphic information and present significantly clarifying details of the singular points of the construction, systems, materials and construction processes of the building studied, highlighting the relationship between design, execution and construction.

2: Individual work - Virtual Experience

After carrying out a work on materials and construction processes based on a case study in a representative building and its real experimentation via a model, it is proposed, with this individual exercise, the experimentation and virtual materialization with a view to understanding the process , technology and elements and materials of virtually assisted construction, through the three-dimensional modeling of constructive details characteristic of the work under study, in order to accurately and faithfully portray its construction system.

The proposed work must present the study carried out on the chosen work through the production of two presentation panels with the graphic elements of the work studied (plans, sections and elevations provided by the architect or ARPA) and the realization of up to eight constructive details in 3D. The panels must contain the following elements: (a) presentation of the work: plans, sections, elevations, photographs, sketches, descriptive memory, among other written or drawn pieces that prove essential to the understanding of the work under study. Appropriate scales should be used for the correct understanding of the project, processes and construction elements that the student should approach; (b) presentation of a 2D (minimum) section through the facade. The scales to be used should be chosen according to the size of the work under study, recommending a scale of 1/50, 1/20 or 1/10; (c) realization of up to eight details of singular points of the building in 3D.

3: Individual work (final) - Project
Realization of the proposed project in the Project III discipline (can be carried out having another project discipline that the student is based on attending). With the accomplishment of this study it is intended that the student develops the constructive system(s) that allows(m) and(m) the materialization of the building under development, in study with the architectural language and its spatial conception . It is intended the act of different systems designed for the project through the detailed definition in scales. The proposed work intends for the student to study, reflect and decide on the constructive system in the practical realization of the project, in a clear approach to the exercise of architecture in the constructive aspect, highlighting the topics covered throughout the year to take in theoretical classes.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

In accordance with applicable legislation.

Classification improvement

In accordance with applicable legislation.

Observations

According to the devellopment of COVID-19 pandemy, and depending on the dispostions that may be demanded by the Portuguese Health Authorities, changes may occur in face-to-face classes regime.

Parallel activities:
C2Lab - A construction laboratory will be created throughout the year that will encourage and support the student to develop research/innovation work on construction systems and materials. C2Lab intends to create a construction library, with a space for catalogs and construction materials, being a project support space with direct connection with the development of project III. It is intended that this laboratory creates external relations with different entities in the world of construction and development of this sector (construction companies and construction materials), being able to visit, invite, organize events and/or present at national and international fairs, fostering links between different professionals in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, as well as with international teaching and research entities such as MIT, Cambridge, USGBC, BRE.

In order to foster interest and research practice in this area of ​​knowledge, students are invited to visit, deepen and publish works and studies carried out on the platform dedicated to Construction and Architecture technologies - C2lab at CIAMH | Center for Innovation in Architecture and Ways of Living – a research line of CEAU- FAUP's Center for Architecture and Urbanism Studies.

TECA – Construction and Architecture Technologies

http://ciamh.up.pt/teca/

ARPA - Architecture Projects Archive

http://ciamh.up.pt/arpa/

ARMA – Architectural Materials Archive

http://ciamh.up.pt/arma/