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Introduction to the Traditional Building Trades
FAST-AG029Acad. year: 2022/2023
Implementation of development building trades from oldest time to the present clarifying conventional building processes with accent on the historic skilled handwork into detail.
Knowledge is useful either in area restoration of monuments or for understanding contemporary technologies and possible solutions of design details from point of view both architectural and building constructions.
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2. Craftsmanship, material, instruments and machinery, technologies. Man and environment.
3. Wood Science, macro and micro structure of wood, wood defects, hygroscopy and drying of wood, conditions of durability, appropriate application of wood, recognition of sorts of wood.
4. Carpentry - material, technology, special branches, construction of structural work of the building.
5. Carpentry and joinery - mutual comparison of manufacturing, building joinery works.
6. Joinery - technology, cabinetmaking, turners, carvers.
7. Bricklaying and stonework - mutual comparison, historical development, material, instruments and tools, bricks and brickmaking.
8. Bricklaying and stonework - building constructions and technologies.
9. Bricklaying and surface of constructions - plasters, stucco, patent stone, painting, tiling, mosaic.
10. Bricklaying and stonework - floor and paving, materials, instruments, technologies.
11. Roofs and tinsmith´s workshop - materials, tools, technologies.
12. Smithery and metalworking - comparison of the work of smith, locksmith, girdler. Materials, tools, technologies.
13. Stove building - fire, oven, fireplace, stove.
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- Programme B-P-C-APS (N) Bachelor's
branch APS , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
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