Course Details
Typology of Buildings
Academic Year 2025/26
BHA021 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-EVB Winter Semester 1st year
Methods of building design with the consideration of an architectural concept - building typology and layout arrangement requirements. Rooms and floor areas requirements, building dimensions and zones, orientation to the cardinal points, operation schemes, interiors equipments and furniture. Elementary architectural and structural design principles of public buildings according to their types.
Acceptance of valid standards and regulations. The application of architectural and structural design principles, present economic relations, energy efficiency requirements and environmental demands. Design principles for barrier-free civic buildings and their neighbouring outdoor spaces. Design of residential houses is completed in following practical classes.
Credits
5 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
Entry Knowledge
Aims
To gain basic knowledge and experience in conceptional work within the frame of planning residential and some selected public buildings. Subject graduate will be able conceptual work in the process of planning with regard to artistic and compositional requirements. Student will acquire and accept typological and ergonomic principles of layout design and dimension solution, standards, regulations and specifications for barrier-free solutions of building interiors and their exteriors.
Basic Literature
ČSN 73 4130 Schodiště a šikmé rampy - Základní požadavky, Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví, 2010 (cs)
ČSN 73 5305 Administrativní budovy a prostory, Český normalizační institut, 2005 (cs)
ČSN 73 6056 Odstavné a parkovací plochy silničních vozidel, Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví, 2011 (cs)
Zákon č. 283/2021 Sb., Stavební zákon, Parlament České republiky, 2021 (cs)
Vyhláška č. 146/2024 Sb., o požadavcích na výstavbu, Ministerstvo pro místní rozvoj ČR, 2024 (cs)
Vyhláška č. 131/2024 Sb., o dokumentaci staveb, Ministerstvo pro místní rozvoj ČR, 2024 (cs)
Vyhláška č. 460/2021 Sb., o kategorizaci staveb z hlediska požární bezpečnosti a ochrany obyvatelstva, Ministerstvo vnitra ČR, 2021 (cs)
Vyhláška č. 160/2024 Sb., o hygienických požadavcích na prostory a provoz zařízení a provozoven pro výchovu a vzdělávání dětí a mladistvých a dětských skupin, Ministerstvo zdravotnictví ČR, 2024 (cs)
NEUFERT, Ernst: Architects' Data 6th Edition, John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2023 (en)
Recommended Reading
FILIPIOVÁ, Daniela: Projektujeme bez bariér, Praha: Ministerstvo práce a sociálních věcí, 2002 (cs)
REMEŠ, Josef a kol.: Stavební příručka, Praha: Grada, 2014 (cs)
BLANC, Alan: Mitchells Internal Components, London: Longman, 1998 (en)
REID, Esmond: Understanding Buildings, London: Addison Wesley, 1996 (en)
ŠTÍPEK Jan, PAROUBEK Jiří: Stavby pro bydlení, Praha: ČVUT, 2006 (cs)
PAROUBEK Jaroslav, NAVRÁTIL Arnošt: Občanské stavby: stavby pro tělovýchovu a sport, Praha: ČVUT, 2001 (cs)
STÝBLO, Zbyšek: Školské stavby, Praha: ČVUT, 2010 (cs)
ŠTÍPEK Jiří, PAROUBEK Jan, PAPADOPOULOS, Angelos: Administrativní budovy, Praha: ČVUT, 2008 (cs)
CHUDLEY, Roy: Construction Technology, Essesx: Longman Ltd., 2012 (en)
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction – design area dependence on tenant physiology. Residential houses – layout design solution, dwelling zones, cardinal point orientation from the point of view requirement of indoor climate, placing on the construction site.
- 2. Residentials rooms. House equipment and accessories. Vertical and horizontal communication areas.
- 3. Basic design rules for entrance space, wardrobes, bedrooms, children’s rooms and related and storage spaces.
- 4. Ergonomics design principles of hygienic services and technical equipment.
- 5. Principles of ergonomics in kitchen, design of dining and living room.
- 6. Barrier-free design of building interior and exterior.
- 7. Parking design, parking systems and parking garages.
- 8. Basic design principles of temporary accommodation.
- 9. Rules design of public catering.
- 10. Design of educational facilities – nursery schools, primary schools – layout design.
- 11. Basic rules for designing of administrative buildings.
- 12. Building design for business and services, multipurpose houses – general principles layout and typology solutions.
- 13. Basic design principles of sports buildings and physical education.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1st - 12th week
Task 1:
Work out an assessment of present family house min. 5 + kk – min. from 5 aspects e.g.: http: www.archiweb.cz
Criterions (min 5):
orientation to the cardinal points (situation of a building in terrain), architectural integration to surrounding built-up area.
Analyse design layout, review area of single rooms (cubic capacity in attics), calculate daylighting, evaluate ergonomics (kitchen, bathroom, area of communication, cabinet..) and appraise amount of storage space in single rooms.
Compare with rules (recommended literature, lectures…)
Complete with pictures, alternatively sketches, calculations.
Task 2:
Work out an assessment of assigned public building and evaluate from point of view of layout, cardinal point orientation, placement on construction site, barrier-free design interior and exterior…
Compare with rules (recommended literature, lectures…)
Complete with pictures, alternatively sketches, calculations.
Output:
Every assignment will hand in as separate writing work completed with layouts, pictures, alternatively by own designs, sketches.
Work out in size A4/A3 – ribbon bookbinding.
13th week - Credit