Course Details

Diploma Project

Academic Year 2023/24

NGA060 course is part of 2 study plans

NPC-ARS / ARA Summer Semester 2nd year

NPC-ARS / ARP Summer Semester 2nd year

The diploma project is delimited by the focus which the student selects at the beginning of their subsequent master’s degree. For the Architecture specialisation, it is a set of constructions or one construction with demanding operational requirements, elaborated at the level of an architectural study and with the addition of a construction engineering part proving that the student understands how the construction should be executed. For the Architectural Management specialization, it is an architectural study with an added analysis from the commercial and managerial points of view. For the Urban Planning specialisation, it is an urban planning study concerning also the areas of urban engineering and environmental issues.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

Serves to verify the maturity of the graduate on completing their two-level structured architectural degree. Demonstrates their ability to manage the most complex tasks connected with the design and execution of structures or groups of building constructions, or with the development of urban areas.

Knowledge

The diploma project verifies the student’s qualified readiness for the execution of their profession as well as for authorization with the Czech Chamber of Architects. It proves the ability of the graduate to apply his/her knowledge in the full width of mutual urban planning, architectural as well as construction technology contexts and verifies his/her complete suitability for the execution of employment and as a prospective team leader.

Syllabus

Individual semestral work on an architectural or urban planning study, complemented with selected details which prove the feasibility of the proposed solution in relation to the focus of the subsequent master’s study programme.

Prerequisites

The entirety of all knowledge and skills gained during the student’s preceding structured study in the architecture specialization.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

30 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

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

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Project

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory