ARCH2413
Building Technology I: Materials and Construction
Target Students BSSc2
Course Term 1
Course Type Required
Teacher(s) XU, Liang Leon
Architects play an essential role in the construction process. Their deep understanding of various construction materials and their properties, capabilities, and limitations and their knowledge and expertise in specifying, detailing, and integrating these materials with different construction methods and structural systems are essential in creating safe, functional, and aesthetically pleasing buildings.
This course aims to provide students with a solid foundational knowledge of building technologies in materials, construction methods and structural principles while developing their ability to critically observe, explore, and integrate this technical information into a design process.
Students will be introduced to the importance of tectonics and the ethics of using materials. Students will be encouraged to discover the supply, processing and performance of the given building materials, together with the evolution and potential of the construction and structural systems.
The first two Building Technology courses are closely related and build on each other. The first course focuses on understanding materials, construction methods, and structural systems from a qualitative perspective, while the second course examines the same issues using the method of graphic statics - a quantitative approach.
