Fundamentals of designing Course code: OSPR | 5 ECTS credits

Basic information
Level of Studies: Undergraduate applied studies
Year of Study: 1
Semester: 2
Requirements:
Goal: The objective of the course is to master the basics of designing dwelling facilities.
Outcome: Within this curriculum students acquire basic knowledge about the design of buildings through lectures and exercises. Through assignments during exercises students acquire basic skills in the design of dwelling buildings.
Contents of the course
Theoretical instruction:
  1. Development of program principles in designing buildings
  2. Systematic approach to the design methodology
  3. Elements for project task defining
  4. Characteristics of contemporary dwelling conditions
  5. Space and its tasks
  6. The function of housing
  7. Analysis of residential premises
  8. Grouping and orientation of rooms
  9. Designing a house through the game of forms and colors
  10. Analysis of family homes of famous architects
  11. Frank Lioyd Wright, FrankO’Gehry, Mario Botta, Itsuko Hasegawa, Tekefumi Aida, Eric Owen Moss, FremKoolhaas, Steven Holl, Tadao Ando, Richard Meier, Le Corbucier, Mies Won de Rohe, GerntRietveld, Alvar Alt, Oscar Niemeyer and others
  12. Review of family houses of our national creativity
  13. Review of family houses of our famous architects
Practical instruction (Problem solving sessions/Lab work/Practical training):
Textbooks and References
Number of active classes (weekly)
Lectures: 1
Practical classes: 2
Other types of classes: 0
Grading (maximum number of points: 100)
Pre-exam obligations
Points
activities during lectures
10
activities on practial excersises
0
seminary work
30
colloquium
30
Final exam
Points
Written exam
0
Oral exam
30