Concepção e Experimentação Estrutural

Code:

50143C5

Acronym:

CEE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Building Technology

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://www.instagram.com/cee_faup/
Responsible unit:	Arquitectura (A)
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	20	MIARQ	4	-	3	-	81
			5

Teaching language

Portuguese and english

Objectives

The course unit aims to bring students closer to three types of structural principles – statics, materials and construction – that were on the conceptual genesis of reference structures of the past.

On statics, the objective is to develop an intuitive and holistic relationship between form and structure using graphical methods and physical models, in which structures are being calculated as they’re being drawn.

The students, in groups of 6 or 7 people, should develop the project for a structure that will be built in February. This structure, with no program or function, should have its genesis on an idea or structural principle, the engineering themes: equilibrium, surfaces, lines.

During this process, the students must question and explore the restrictions they’re being faced – technical and constructive process – and for their project they should produce three types of drawings – conception, execution and construction.

Learning outcomes and competences

The students should be able to develop a synthetic thinking between form, structure, materials and construction during their own conceptual design process.

With these processes of learning, based on drawing, historic references and experimentation, the students should be able to develop a common language that can foster a more informed dialogue with engineers and other professionals of construction.

At the end of this course, the student should be able to design, explain and build a structure. By being a workgroup, the collaboration process and autonomy are highly valued, and are essential for the development and building of the objects.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. THEORY

1. Static principles - mass, gravity

2. Lines - arches, cables, beams, columns

3. Surfaces - walls, deep-beams, slabs

4. Equilibrium

Mandatory literature

DEPLAZES, Andrea ; Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures, Birkhauser, 2009
GARGIANI, Roberto; The rhetoric of Pier Luigi Nervi: Forms in reinforced concrete and ferro-cement., EPFL Press, 2016
MOSTAFAVI, Mohsen ; Structure as Space: Engineering and Architecture in the Works of Jürg Conzett and His Partners, AA Publications, 2006
MULLER-BROCKMANN, Josef ; Sistemas de grelhas, Gustavo Gili, 2012
MUTTONI, Aurelio; The Art of Structures: Introduction to the Functioning of Structure in Architecture, EPFL Press, 2012
NERVI, Pier Luigi; Aesthetics and Technology in Buildings, Harvard University Press, 1966
SANDAKER, Bjorn; The Structural Basis of Architecture, Routledge, 2014
SEMPER, Gottfried ; Style in the technical and tectonic arts, or, practical aesthetics, Getty Research Institute, 2004
REICHEL, Alexander ; Support, materialise. Columns, walls, floors, Birkhauser, 2014

Complementary Bibliography

ADDIS, Bill; Building: 3000 Years of Design Engineering and Construction, Phaidon, 2007
ANGERER, Fred; Surface Structures in Building: Structure and Form, Reinhold Pub. Corp, 1961
BILL, Max; Robert Maillart, Erlenbach, 1949
CARLANA, Michel; Forms of Structures, Electa architectura, 2011
FLURY, Aita; Cooperation: The Engineer and the Architect, Birkhauser, 2012
KIND-BARKAUSAS, Friedbert; Concrete Construction Manual, Birkhauser, 2002
PICON, Antoine; Art de l'Ingenieur: Construction Entrepreneur Inventeur, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1997
POPOVIC, Olga; Conceptual Structural Design: Bridging the Gap between Architects and Engineers, Thomas Telford, 2003
TORROJA, Eduardo; Razón y ser de los tipos estructurales, Ediciones Doce Calles, 2010

Teaching methods and learning activities

Each weekly class is divided in three parts: theory, fast exercises (graphical statics and model making), and workgroup tutorial. Invited guests (architects, engineers and builders) will provide complementary knowledge.

The workgroup of this year has the theme of "resist" and will consist on designing and building an object made of wood and textile.

For the 2023/24 edition visiting trips are planned to construction sites, laboratory of materials and steel workshops.

At the end of the semester each team must deliver a 2 minute video, with a maximum of 15 slides that explains and produces a short and synthetic analysis on the built object.

Software

Autocad, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, Revit, Rhinoceros, Robot Structural Analysis

keywords

Technological sciences > Engineering > Civil engineering > Structural engineering
Technological sciences > Architecture

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	40,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	60,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	6,00
Elaboração de projeto	36,00
Frequência das aulas	39,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

75% attendance

Calculation formula of final grade

Global and continuous evaluation during the semester, taking into account workgroup and individual components:

Workgroup:
1. Research, dynamics and autonomy - 25%
2. Command of design process tools - 15%
3. Quality of built object and panels presentation - 20%

Individual:
4. Attendance to lectures - 5%
5. Quality of active participation in lectures  - 15%
6. Constructive Process - 20%

CF = 1+2+3+4+5+6

Classification improvement

Improvment of grade, after evaluation, can be obtained by oral exam, which will take on the lectured programme and classes.