Course detail

Building Constructions and urban planning

FAST-BHA019Acad. year: 2024/2025

Introduction into the structural design of buildings constructions. Students will learn the basic knowledge of purpose, function and design of buildings and structures and of application of knowledge in the field of geodesy and their interconnections with buildings constructions. Output of this course is elaboration of the study the building construction in concrete conditions given area.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Radim Smolka, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Entry knowledge

cartography, land surveying, computer graphics CARD

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Evaluation based on the final status of partial project documentation.


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

Aims

Students are to acquaint with the issue of building construction design and realization including project drawings and valid legislation and with application of knowledge in the field of geodesy and their interconnections with buildings constructions.


Documentation study of structural design of the building construction including the situation and and oral examination

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-GK Bachelor's 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. arch. Ivana Utíkalová, Ph.D.
Ing. Radim Smolka, Ph.D.
Ing. arch. Luboš Eliáš

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

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Radim Smolka, Ph.D.

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.