Description
The dynamic logic of building technology and structural systems, and their effect on architectural space and language. Integration of engineering and architectural skills in the production of buildings. Review of pre-industrial structural systems (post and beam, vaulting, rib vaulting, domes) and post-industrial structural systems. (E.g. 2D trusses, 3D trusses, concrete shells, tensile structures, pneumatic structures). Relationship between buildings, the ideas and messages embodied by the structures and the culture in which they were built. The course will also include: Analysis of statically determinate structures such as Trusses, Beams, Frames. Displacements of statically determinate structures. Analysis of indeterminet structures by the aproximate methods.
Credits
3 Hours