Module Code - Title:
AR4319
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ADVANCED CONSTRUCTION 3
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.
Staff and student undertake in-depth research into specialist areas of technology. Case studies focus is on an integration of structural and environmental systems in response to specific conditions that require complex skills in analysis and/or design. The students are expected to apply findings from directed and independent research on advanced construction technologies to develop each student's thesis proposal individually.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Present in-depth research into specialist areas of technology;
Explain in detail their specific design implications;
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
State a proposition on the design impact of advanced or innovative construction technologies;
Relate insight gained into advanced construction technologies to their individual design thesis proposal;
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Represent technological processes and related materials in drawings, diagrams, physical and/or digital models.
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:
Ford, E.R. (2003)
The details of modern architecture. 1928-1988 (Vol. 2)
, Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press
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
Other Relevant Texts:
Brandt, J., Kauhsen, B., Kind-Barkauskas, F., Polonyi, S. (2002)
Concrete 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
Achtziger, J., Pfeiffer, G., Ramcke, R., Zilch, K. (2001)
Masonry Construction Manual 1st. 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