Academic year/semester: 2024/25/1

ECTS Credits: 7

Available for: Only for the faculty’s students

Lecture hours: 2
Seminarium:0
Practice: 2
Laboratory: 0
Consultation: 0

Prerequisites: 2 semester Building Constructions

Course Leader: Dr. Vizi Gergely Norbert PhD

Faculty: Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, 1146 Budapest, Thököly út 74.

Course Description:
• To get to a common knowledge on basic building structures and systems in Central Europe such as foundation-, wall-, slab, roof- and wall cladding structures.
• To learn the requirements and applicability of this structures and
• To get familiar with the required form and content of an execution plan with the help of the end term plan

Competences:
get familiar with the required form and content of an execution plan

Topics:
12-14 WEEKS SCHEDULE:

1. Week: Introduction. Getting to know each other. DICTIONARY.Designing the layer order for wall, slab, floor, footing. Handing out Project work #1 (execution plan)

2. Week: Light weighted construction, wood and steel frame

3. Week: FOUNDATIONS, FOOTING, WALLS, LINTEL BEAMS. Design questions, External envelope impacts and requirements , Wall section S=1:20- sketch #1

4. Week: Student presentations: „Foundations, footings, walls, lintels in my home country”, Consultation, workshop

5. Week: ROOF STUCTURES, HABITABLE ATTICS I., Roof structures 1:50 sketch #2

6. Week: ROOF STUCTURES, HABITABLE ATTICS II., Consultation, workshop

7. Week: ROOF STUCTURES, HABITABLE ATTICS III., Habitable Attics 1:10 Chalkboard task #1

8. Week: ROOF STUCTURES, HABITABLE ATTICS IV., 1st. TEST (wall structures and habitable attics)

9. Week: WALL CLADDING KITS I. Design questions, systems Substructure systems , Planar coordination of doors and windows, placement solutions in layered walls Chalkboard task #2 Handing out Project work #2 Consultation, workshop

10. Week: WALL CLADDING KITS II. Design questions, systems Substructure systems , Views and sections of walls with back-ventilated cladding, design rules - sketch #3

11. Week: WALL CLADDING KITS III. Design questions, systems Substructure systems , Detail design

12. Week: CURTAIN WALL STRUCTURES Design questions, systems , 2nd. TEST (Wall claddings, window and door constuctions)

13. Week: Review, conclusion. Corrective test, Handing in the Project works (End Term Plan) Evaulation

Assessment: Midterm assignment, tests and exam

Exam Types:

Test Exam

Mid Term Exam

Compulsory bibliography: none

Recommended bibliography: none

Additional bibliography: none

Additional Information: none