Academy of Technical and
Art Applied Studies Belgrade

Reconstruction of Structures Course code: RESO | 4 ECTS credits

Basic information
Level of Studies: Undergraduate applied studies
Year of Study: 2
Semester: 3
Requirements: Fullfilled pre-exam requirements from the courses Architectural structures 1 and 2 and Building materials
Goal: The objective of the course is theoretical and applied introduction to the problems of building reconstruction with historical and comparative approach to the analysis of designing and creatingfacillities through positive and negative experiences in the world and in our country and determination of general criteria for scientific - expert approach in the reconstruction of facilities through analysis, condition diagnosis, defining and problem solving, planning, designing and performing reconstruction of the facilities.
Outcome: Within the curriculum, in addition to general introduction to the theory of architecture, students are explained the methodof structure reconstruction through the analysis of all aspects essential for theascertainment of structure condition and procedure proposalin the approach to reconstruction designing. Lectures are conceived so that the modernization of ways how to use a facility is also improved through the policy of reconstruction (legal framework), planning, evaluating, reviewing. This also includes integration of reconstructed buildings in active pulsating city life.
Contents of the course
Theoretical instruction:
  1. Theory of architecture as a specific part of the general theory of art. Artistic creation as a form of existence, creativity.
  2. Theory of communication in architecture. Authorities as the analysis elements of architectural creations. The concept of style, fashion and kitsch. Characterization of the spatial formative and creative theme as the basis of the theory of composition.
  3. The development of theoretical thinking from Ancient Greece to the present day: Vitruvius, Alberti, Perrault, Blondel, Ledoux, Boullee, Durand, Ruskin, Viollet le Duc, Schinkel, Semper, Wagner, Sant'Elia, Muthesius, Van de Velde, CIAM, Le Corbusier , Mies van der Rohe, Kahn, Venturi, Eisenman, Derrida, Tschumi, Koolhaas, etc.
  4. Basic concepts: in the approach to reconstruction of facilities and clarigficationof the approach to designing reconstruction of facilities. The procedure of analysis, diagnosis and definition of potential problems.
  5. Presentation of the most common reasons for deterioration of facilities: natural causes, human performance, errors in designing, contractors’ faults, factors that contribute to the deterioration of building materials, diseases of structures, etc.
  6. Presentation of investigational works in order to perceive the status of the existing building: geomechanical research, boreholes, trial pits, seismic refraction, geoelectrical measurements, methods of testing materials and structures, physical measurements, research works.
  7. Analysis of foundation, structures, foundation repairmethods, foundation and formation soil strenghteningmethods.
  8. Repairs, reinforcements of structures in the approach to designing, seismic structural repairs, etc. Earthquake effect on a building, seismic zoning, seismic risk, seismic hazard.
  9. Procedures and methods of wall consolidation in the structures that are being reconstructed: injection, types of mixtures, the technique of injecting into masonry walls.
  10. Wooden attic structures, renovation of attic structures, methods of strenghtening the existing attic structures and approaches to the designing in a facility reconstruction.
  11. Roof structures, possibilities of repairing, replacement of individual elements, reconstructions of roofs and covers
  12. Presentationof structure reconstructions and problems in structure reconstructions in our country. Practical training
Practical instruction (Problem solving sessions/Lab work/Practical training):
  1. Content from theoretical instruction transferred into practical application through exercises and practical exercises in teaching bases.
Textbooks and References
Number of active classes (weekly)
Lectures: 1
Practical classes: 1
Other types of classes: 0
Grading (maximum number of points: 100)
Pre-exam obligations
Points
activities during lectures
10
activities on practial excersises
10
seminary work
30
colloquium
20
Final exam
Points
Written exam
0
Oral exam
30