Course Details

Residential Buildings

Academic Year 2025/26

BGA008 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. arch. Juraj Dulenčín, Ph.D.

Institute

Link

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289648

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Concept of typology, typology in the architecture of residential buildings.
  • 2. Social and psychological aspects of housing.
  • 3. Definition of a flat and its fragments, flat zoning, articles of the standard.
  • 4. Historical development of the building type of a family house.
  • 5. Family houses, typological varieties.
  • 6. Historical development of the building type of a multidwelling house.
  • 7. Typology of a multidwelling house, exterior and interior areas of a house.
  • 8. Typological varieties of multidwelling houses.
  • 9. Prefabricated blocks of flats.
  • 10. Polyfunctional buildings.
  • 11. Housing for the aged.
  • 12. Buildings for temporary accommodation.
  • 13. Nature of the new residential construction.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1.–2. Introduction to study, work methods, assign 1st task
  • 3.–4. Assignment task: family house for analysis
  • 5.–6. Sketches of given house analysis: environment, form, function, structure, dimensional model
  • 7.–11. Presentation of the analyzes specified family house, models
  • 12.–13. Submission of work, the final evaluation