Course Details

Elements of Architectural Design

Academic Year 2024/25

BGA007 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Winter Semester 1st year

Theoretical introduction to architecture as a creative process. The aim is the familiarization with the space, matter and shape (composition) aspects of an architectonic work and the methodology of an architect’s work while respecting the inter-connected aspects of building within the society as a whole. The acquired knowledge with an inventive application of the principles of creation of space, structure and composition will be applied in a seminar.

Credits

4 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

Ing. arch. Yvona Boleslavská, Ph.D.

Institute

Link

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

The subject is involved in 1st semester of study. It does not connect with any previous disciplines. The prerequisite is the general knowledge of culture and history at the secondary school level.

Aims

Introduction to the architectonic design, architecture as an art and a science, elements of the architectonic typology, participants in the process of architectural design.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. introduction to the architectonic design, architecture as an art and a science, elements of the architectonic typology, participants in the process of architectural design.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281484

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Nature of architecture, its function and message
  • 2. Architectural design as a synthesis of disciplines
  • 3. Theory of a natural place – phenomenology, structure, spirit
  • 4. Theory of an artificial place - phenomenology, structure, spirit
  • 5. Elements of the architectonic typology
  • 6. Space, identification with space, topos-typos
  • 7. Space composition, raumplan, plan-libre, structuralism
  • 8. Architectonic structure
  • 9. Elementary structive components
  • 10. Spatial load-bearing components
  • 11. Elementary composition categories
  • 12. Subjects of architectonic and urbanistic design, a client, an architect, an executor
  • 13. Methodology of designing

Exercise

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to the seminar, task 1
  • 2.-3. Layout of the space - "raumplan", consultations
  • 4. Survey of task 1, set up of task 2 - layout of the space - "plan libre"
  • 5.-6. Consultations of the task 2
  • 7. Survey of task 2, task 3 - "building and site", layout
  • 8.-11.Consultations of the task 3.
  • 12. Survey of the task 3
  • 13. Submission of all parts of work including models