ARCH 527 Building Technologies II
This course seeks to illuminate the ecological and structural considerations as well as the materials, means, and methods that are fundamental to the conception and execution of contemporary building. Corresponding construction examples will introduce students to the demands that so often influence decision making in the technical process and inflect (and potentially enrich) design intention. The ability to make technically clear representations of a variety of commonly used assemblies in building construction will be explored; the application and properties of common building materials, physical and environmental stress and constraint, stresses and forces as well as free body diagrams will be reviewed; as well as structural understanding between depth, span and sectional shape and size of components, and quality and ecological impact.