Course detail
Detail in Architecture 1
FAST-BGA035Acad. year: 2025/2026
At the factual study of details of particular buildings the students will acquaint themselves with the theoretical thinking of an architect – creator who, trying to find a way into the secrets of a technical detail and examine its alternatives, has to become a design engineer and acquire the knack of a number of crafts.
The aim is to produce a coherent final work - a detail showing both structural logic together with elementary crafts skills and permanent respect for the environment.
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Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Aims
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. survey of the development of an architectonic detail, the Arts and Crafts, parts of buildings, enclosing shell, roofs, windows, doors and gates, grading, basic building structure, staircases, building services.
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Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BPC-APS Bachelor's 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
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Syllabus
- 1. Origins of the contemporary architectonic detail, Arts and Crafts, Avant-Garde
- 2. Properties of materials and their options of expression, traditional and new materials
- 3. Excursion
- 4. Enclosing shell, balconies, recessed balconies, expansion joints
- 5. Roofs, canopies
- 6. Windows and sun screens
- 7. Roofs, gates, show windows
- 8. Gradings, thoroughfares, skinned areas, enclosures and fencings
- 9. Columns, pillars, walls, partitions, ceilings, floors
- 10. Staircases and lifts
- 11. Fixed inner fittings
- 12. Visible building services, distribution of services
- 13. Load-bearing structure joints
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- 1. Enter the first task. Choosing the already implemented architectural detail.
- 2. Consultation on selected detail.
- 3. Consultation on selected detail and graphic design of A3.
- 4. Enter the second task.
- 5.–8. Consultation on selected detail and graphic design of A3.
- 9. Enter the third task.
- 10.–12. Consultation on selected detail and graphic design of A3.
- 13. Graded course-unit credit.