Construction I

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The theoretical classes with exposure of compositional principles, materials, building systems and ways of conceiving and realizing, resort to readings of existing physical structures in order to interest students in the interpretative analysis to develop the theoretical and practical component of the subject.

Theoretical-practical classes oriented to develop interpretative analysis exercises of buildings with secular constructive anchorage, other than seeking constructive perception of their physical organic structures favor the gradual internalization of the qualification of the design as a means of assessing the 

intentionality of handling capacity of the discursive construction materials and systems.

The classification of each year result from the weighting of these aspects: attendance and performance in follow-up sessions (20%); the continued development work (15%); response to exercise (65%).

Learning Outcomes

In a reference to the space and architectural form, the compositional principles, materials and construction systems - resulting in a vernacular architecture and an entrenched secular knowledge that has been validating scholarly generations - will seek to awaken students in a constructive awareness that allows a first understanding of material reality that surrounds them. This is interfering with the mental structure of the students in order to equip them with tools and ability to initiate critical readings of architectural forms from the compositional decoding, material and constructive of their physical bodies.

This process of internalization between the articulation of materiality and the building phenomena will be accompanied by the gradual recovery of qualification design corresponding to a means to gauge the intent to handle the discursive capacity of materials and building systems.

Work Placement(s)

No

Head Lecturer(s)

António Alberto de Faria Bettencourt

Assessment Methods

Continuous assessment
The classification of each exercise will result from the weighting of the referred aspects: attendance and performance in the monitoring sessions (20%); continuity in the development of work (15%); response to exercise (65%).: 100.0%

Bibliography

FRAMPTON, Kenneth – Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction In Ninteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, Edited John Cava, 1995.

VILLALBA, António Castro – História de la Construcción Arquitectónica, Quaderns d´Arquitectes 12. Barcelona. Edicions Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, 1995.

ADAM, Jean  Pierre -  La construcción Romana, materiales y técnicas. Leon. Editorial de los ofícios, 1989.

TÁVORA, Fernando; KEIL AMARAL, Francisco; PEREIRA; Teotónio et al – Arquitectura Popular em Portugal. Lisboa. Associação dos Arquitectos Portugueses., 1988.

TEIXEIRA, Grabiela; BELÉM, Margarida ­ diálogos de edificação: técnicas tradicionais de construção.[s.l]. CRAT (Centro Regional de Artes Tradicionais), 1998.