Course detail

Architectural Design Studio IV.

FAST-AG34Acad. year: 2013/2014

The Architectonic Design Studio is the most essential means of teaching architecture. The tuition is based on acquiring knowledge and skills by means of direct experience with architectonic design proceeding step by step from elementary subjects to complicated and sophistically operated complexes of buildings. Methodology lies in passing the tutor´s experience onto a student through a dialogue over an unfinished work. It develops creative thinking and professional habits indispensable to practising an artistic and technical job. The student may take his/her own choice of both kind of design development document and a teacher.
The Monuments Restoration Studio is focused on recovery and alteration of the preserved surviving building substance, the emphasis being on the preservation of monuments of the material culture. The Studio is attended by all students.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

8

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. application of the theoretical knowledge, skills in the restoration and renewal of monuments design and graphic presentation of the three-dimensional reality.

Prerequisites

The Architectonic Design Studio makes use of the knowledge acquired in the previous typological disciplines that is an indispensable condition of being enrolled for an appropriate subject. However, the completion of this subject need not necessarily follow immediately the completion of the content-related typology.

Co-requisites

Knowledge in design of building structures

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through practical classes and self-study assignments. Attendance at practical classes is compulsory.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Condition for acceptance of project is to pass three criticisms during a semester and submission of architectural design according to requested building brief.

Course curriculum

The subjects of architectonic design for the respective semester are announced to the students sufficiently ahead of schedule. Having chosen the design development brief and the teacher, students join the chosen studios. In terms of time, the semester is divided into three parts, specified by carrying out critique discussions over an unfinished and, later on, completed design. The critiques are, as a rule, carried out in the 5th and 10th week of a semester, the last one being after the end of semester and after handing-in the studio work. The purpose of the critiques is both checking up the previously set procedure and exchanging the views of approaches to the treated subject on the parts of teachers and all involved students. Thus, the critique becomes an integral part of tuition. A student presenting his work learns, at the same time, to defend his work before the public.
The design is evaluated in each of the three parts of a semester according to ECTS scale. The sum total stands for the final assessment of a studio work.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Application of the theoretical knowledge, skills in the restoration and renewal of monuments design and graphic presentation of the three-dimensional reality.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Příslušné normy a předpisy. 0. (CS)
Neufert, E.: Navrhování staveb. Consultinvest Praha, 2000. (CS)
Girsa V., Holeček J., Jerje P., Michoinová D.: Předprojektová příprava a projektová dokumentace v procesu péče o stavební památky. NPÚ Praha, 2004. (CS)
Holeček J., Girsa V.,: Projektování obnovy stavebních památek. NPÚ Praha, 2008. (CS)

Recommended reading

Literatura a periodika vztahující s k tématu ateliérové tvorby. 0.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-APS Bachelor's

    branch APS , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

104 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Analysis of the brief
2. Analysis of the building site
3. Reference examples
4. Basic idea of the design
5. Criticism, evaluation of phase 1
6.-9.Work on the design
10. Criticism, evaluation of phase 2
11.-12.Working out of final project
13. Criticism, final evaluation