Description: 

The housing project.

Type Subject
Tercer - Obligatoria
Semester
Annual
Course
2
Credits
15.00

Titular Professors

Previous Knowledge: 

Auto Cad, drawing and inicial-project.

Objectives: 

1. To improve professional practice about housing design.
2. To learn design systems and process in order to test correct results.
3. To know multidisciplinary work and how it can be either individual or as a team member.
4. To realise the problem of dwelling in contemporay society.
5. To understand professional items of architecture and also the needs of continued formation.

Contents: 

Home measures.
Prefabricated homes in the residential construction.
Detached houses.
The collective residence.

Methodology: 

Weekly lectures
Workshops with individual corrections
Group juries and oral presentations
The student works at home
To improve communication levels (oral and written)
To be familiar with new building technology and new tools on prefabrication design

Evaluation: 

D. Homework
F. Group reports
H. Projects
I. Oral presentations
J. Classroom participation

Evaluation Criteria: 

Objective 1:
- The student should demonstrate ability to solve construction details and functional problems [D, H, I, J].
Objective 2:
- The student should demonstrate spacial capacity [D, H, I, J].
Objective 3:
- The student should demonstrate working capacity and improve project levels [E, F].
Objective 4:
- The student should demonstrate working capacity and improve project levels [E, F].
Objective 5:
- The student should demonstrate working capacity and improve project levels [E, F].

Basic Bibliography: 

Ignacio Paricio-Xavier Sus. `L´habitatge contemporani: programa i tecnología´. ITEC Barcelona1996.
Xavier Monteys-Pere Fuertes. `La Casa Collage´. Gustavo Gili Barcelona 2003.

Additional Material: 

Collection of texts on architecture from the Colegio de Arquitectos Técnicos de Murcia, directed by José Ma Torres Nadal.