TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE I AND LABORATORY M - Z

Knowledge of the more recurrent building construction techniques used in the fields of architecture and civil engineering. Executive design with the use of innovative and traditional building materials.

THEORY

General Concepts

Presentation of the course.
Building requirements.
Breakdown of the building. Requirements and key performance.

The construction materials

Wood, stone, bricks, mortar and concrete, reinforced concrete (ordinary and prestressed), steel and other metallic alloys, waterproof membranes, glass, thermal insulating materials.

The structure

The system of foundations

Direct foundations: footings and beams Backward.
Indirect foundations: type of piles, making of and testing.

Structures in reinforced concrete

Design of elements, arrangement of the reinforcement in beams and columns, structural drawings.

Structures in steel

Structural types, design of the nodes.

Vertical envelope

The walls

Walls in brick, massive walls.

The windows

Typology, materials, constructive solutions.

The finishes

Plasters, coatings, ventilated walls.

The roofs

The flat roofs

Geometry, layers, drainage systems, construction details.

The pitched roofs

Geometry, types of warping, trusses, drainage systems, roof coverings, construction details.

The intermediate slabs

Floors in wood, iron, cement, concrete. Analysis of the loads and technical regulations.

The basement

Crawl space, floor.

Elements of vertical communication

Internal stairs

Typology, design, supporting structure.

EXERCISES AND LABORATORY
Students gathered in working groups, composed of a maximum of three members, must perform an architectural design of substitution of a residential building, on an assigned lot.
Teaching aids
Excerpt from the floor plan scale 1:1000 of II municipality (Picanello), with the morphology of the assigned lot.
Drawings required
Project plan (scale 1:500), plants at different levels (scale 1:100), elevations and sections (scale 1:100). Plan of foundations (scale 1:100), scheme of fixed wires (scale 1:100), structural (scale 1:100). Horizontal and vertical construction sections (scale 1:10). Details, proportionately to the members of the group (scale 1:5).

Collateral activities
Some projects of contemporary architecture are presented and discussed under the constructive point of view.

Enrico Dassori, Renata Morbiducci, COSTRUIRE L’ARCHITETTURA tecniche e tecnologie per il progetto, Ed. Tecniche Nuove, 2010 (isbn: 978-88-481-2298-6).