Course Details

Building Constructions and urban planning

Academic Year 2025/26

BHA019 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-GK Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Radim Smolka, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

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/289972

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Urban design, urban planning, legislation and urban typology.
  • 2. Functional, operational and spatial structure of urban settlement department, city plan, municipalities, regulatory elements, buffer zones.
  • 3. Public spaces, transport and technical facilities and infrastructure.Types of buildings according to the purpose of their use. Basic types of structures and coordinating of their dimensions.
  • 4. Structural systems of buildings. External influences on the design.
  • 5. Excavations and foundation construction. Vertical load-bearing structure including exterior walls of the building. The spatial bracing construction.
  • 6. Horizontal structures. Types of floor structures. Overhanging and receding structures.
  • 7. Structural systems for roofing structures. Non-bearing structures, doors and windows, floors.
  • 8. Constructions for different height level – stairs, ramps.
  • 9. Flat roofs and chimneys.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1.–2. Draft of cellared building construction.
  • 3.–4. Structural studies of the building 1:100.
  • 5. Sections and Elevations of building.
  • 6. Contour lines plan and local topography for the building. Location of the building in the terrain.
  • 7. The foundation structure.
  • 8. Proposal of landscaping. Technical report.
  • 9. Completion and granting credit.