After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand relevant aspects of building construction on a detailed level. Thereby, holistic, comprehensive, process-guided tectonic thinking plays a major role.

This course focuses on formal representations of constitutive elements of building construction. Selected topics of the current practice of building construction planning will be discussed. Thereby the role of contemporary planning tools and knowledge¿based design and construction will be emphasized, such as Building Information modelling and performance¿guided building design. Students are expected to gather experience in the application of building construction principles as required in a wide range of use cases (Building Performance Modeling, Design Decision Support, etc.).

The course contains a theory component and an exercise part. The lecture part
introduces to the fundamental elements of building construction based on contemporary practice and state¿of¿the¿art tools. Current challenges and trends will be considered in the specific definition of each semester's theoretical foci. In the exercise part, participating students will be asked to specifically approach a specific area of building construction, which is to be subjected to representational inquiries and numeric analyses. 

• course in english language
• theory part ==> assemble knowledge about building construction
• practice part ==> detailling of building construction

Different participant groups:

• students taking this course as stand-alone course.
• students taking the course as addendum to the design studios held by Sigrun Swoboda and/or Ulrich Pont
• students taking the course in the framework of 259.342/259.343

Schedule Winterterm 2024 for Students taking this course as stand-alone course:

• This course will be a self-learning course, starting by 1st of May via TUWEL. Students will be asked to conduct certain assignements until specified deadlines. The working Phase will be form 1st of May till Mid of August 2024. Please not that prior to 1st May there will no content being uploaded in the TUWEL course

Contact:

only via lecture2593@tuwien.ac.at  (Subject: 259445 - and a short wording about the needed help/information) - Please DO NOT write to person-addresses.

• presence in class.
• participation.
• timely delivery of high-qualitative assignements.

Interest about the content and willingness to invest some time and work on deliverables.