Module Code - Title:
AR4310
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ADVANCED CONSTRUCTION 4
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
An extended and clearly structured curriculum in construction design to induce a more innovative and imaginary approach to materials and details.
In order to ensure the expected high level of competency in advanced building construction (at an industrial scale and with respect to contemporary and innovative technologies) SAUL introduces a set of Advanced Construction modules throughout Y4 and Y5 in close relation to and in support of the Design Studio projects.
Syllabus:
The series of modules in Advanced Construction expands the scope of students competencies in building technologies and construction beyond traditional methods and their related familiar scale. In the final year, students engage in a tested dialogue with concerns of design, structure, environment, history and theory, representation, digital media, and other related areas and interests.
Students undertake a Technical Design Thesis, contextualised as part of a broader dialogue in which the technical and architectural agendas that arise within the year are synthesised. The constructional or technological proposition is pursued critically and developed imaginatively through case studies, material experiments, extensive research and consultation.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Propose and explain in great detail the application of specific construction technologies to a design problem;
Synthesise constructional, technological and architectural considerations in a Technical Design Thesis;
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Resolve constructional issues in the thesis design project by applying technological knowledge and, if needed, innovation;
Display, explain and evaluate critically technological aspects of the thesis design project in a coherent manner;
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Assemble and present a coherent set of material samples, models and prototypes;
Demonstrate the impact of a technology applied to the design proposal.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Frampton, K., Cava, J. ed. (2001)
Studies in tectonic culture. The poetics of
construction in nineteenth and twentieth century architecture.
, Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press
Ford, E.R. (1996)
The Details of Modern Architecture
, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Ford, E.R. (2003)
The details of modern architecture. 1928¿1988 (Vol. 2)
, Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press
Other Relevant Texts:
Brandt, J., Kauhsen, B., Kind-Barkauskas, F., Polonyi, S. (2002)
Concrete Construction Manual. 1st ed.
, Basel: Birkhäuser
Achtziger, J., Pfeiffer, G., Ramcke, R., Zilch, K. (2001)
Masonry Construction Manual 1st ed.,
, Basel: Birkhäuser
Auch-Schwelk, V., Fuchs, M., Hegger, M., Rosenkranz, T. (2006)
Construction Materials Manual. 1st ed.
, Basel: Birkhäuser
Herzog, T., Krippner, R., Lang, W. (2008)
Facade construction manual. 1st rev. ed.
, Basel: Birkhäuser
Balkow, D., Schittich, Ch., Schuler, M., Sobek, W., Staib, G. (2007)
Glass Construction Manual. 2nd ed.
, Basel: Birkhäuser
Giebeler, G., Fisch, R., Krause, H., Musso, F., Petzinka, K-H., Rudolphi, A. (2009)
Refurbishment Manual 1st ed.
, Basel: Birkhäuser
Barthel, R., Kießl, K., Oster, H-J., Schunck, E. (2003)
Roof construction manual. 1st ed.,
, Basel: Birkhäuser
Schulitz, H. Sobek, W., Habermann, K. (2000)
Steel construction manual. 1st ed.
, Basel: Birkhäuser
Herzog, T., Natterer, J., Schweitzer, R., Volz, M., Winter, W. (2004)
Timber construction manual. 1st rev. ed.
, Basel: Birkhäuser
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Module Leader:
Maxim.Laroussi@ul.ie