Course Details

Public Buildings 2

Academic Year 2024/25

BGA011 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Summer Semester 1st year

The subject enables the students to gain the basic knowledge of designing various typological units in the field of culture, commerce, catering and transport from the point of view of function, layout and architecture. It constitutes a theoretical preparation for working out simple assignments in seminars and, above all, designing public buildings in the following studio tuition.

Credits

3 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. arch. Michal Sedláček

Institute

Link

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

The subject connects with Public Buildings I. and some typological disciplines that are taught in the preceding semester. It partly applies the knowledge gained in the history of architecture.

Aims

Knowledge of the public building typology, sports facilities, health service, cultural and ecclesiastical buildings, zoological gardens, aquariums.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the public building typology, sports facilities, health service, cultural and ecclesiastical buildings, zoological gardens, aquariums.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281487

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Sports stadiums
  • 2. Gymnasiums and sports halls
  • 3. Muscle-conditioning gyms, fitness centers and recreation sports
  • 4. Indoor and outdoor swimming pools
  • 5. Health-care facilities
  • 6. Hospitals
  • 7. Spas and medicinal facilities
  • 8. Museums and galleries
  • 9. Churches, ecclesiastical buildings,
  • 10. Funeral homes and crematoriums
  • 11. Theatres and cinemas
  • 12. Concert halls
  • 13. Exhibition spaces and grounds

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1.–2. Facts for analysis
  • 3.–8. Analysis of realized examples of public buildings
  • 9.–12. Visual presentation of realized examples of public buildings
  • 13. Final evaluation of the results of the work