Architecture – Green Building

The first lecture gives you an overview from CAD to Building Information Modeling (BIM).

Topics:
User Interface and Work Environment
Settings and Options
Working with Baseelements, modifying and multiplying Objects
Numerical Input, Coordination Systems
Working with ‚intelligent‘ Buildingobjects (Wall, Slab, Window, Door, Stair, …)
Spaces, Areas, Dimensioning,
Storeys, creating Sections, Views, Submission and works plans
Layout, Plotting

• Students with no previous knowledge will learn how to use the popular CAD program Archicad (current version).

• Students without previous knowledge are able to create standard-compliant submission and foreman plans with dimensioning, labelling and hatching by deriving floor plans, elevations and sections from the 3D model.

• Students with previous knowledge get to know an object-oriented construction-specific CAD program using Archicad (current version) as an example.

• Students with previous knowledge derive floor plans, views and sections from the 3D model

• Students with prior knowledge model 3D buildings as a prerequisite for Building Information Modelling (BIM).

Lecture with LCD projector, cooperation of the students,
Deepening of the subject matter through exercises (homework) and
Self-study.

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

1. Preliminary remarks
2. Types of representation
3. From the foundation to the excavation - orthographic projection
4. Ichnography, elevation and sheer plan of a building
5. Roof design
6. Illustrative images of spatial objects
7. Perspective pictures - the central projection
 

• Students analyze and solve spatial geometric problems;

• Students will be able to apply different mapping techniques.

Learning guided by the the worksheets.

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

In addition to the technical content of the buildings is the training of the architectural repertoire of immense importance. The drawing is conveyed in a most intense way and designed rooms serve as a communication medium in each planning process. In the sense of the graphic design promotes the free hand drawing a sense of seeing (stock), the spatial understanding (draft), and respond quickly to planning issues (version). Presentation techniques with a pencil sketch representation of buildings and bodies.

• Students sketch buildings and bodies.

• Students incorporate self-created sketches into presentations.

Exercise

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

In the course different model making techniques and model representation possibilities in different scales, with different materials and in different model making techniques are analyzed and the manufacturing basics are deepened.

• Students apply different model building techniques and representations at different scales, with different materials and in different model building techniques.

• Students analyze the manufacturing fundamentals.

Exercise

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

In-depth training regarding CAD / BIM - programs, basics of image processing, the basics of the layout.
Rendering with Cinerender/ARCHICAD

• Students visualize structure/preparation of an architectural visualization using ARCHICAD.

• Students create their own materials and surfaces (CineRENDER) and process them in the layout area.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Introduction to building physics
Fundamentals of thermal insulation
Calculation of heating and cooling requirements
Energy balancing and energy optimization of buildings
Summer thermal insulation: preventing buildings from overheating in summer
Moisture protection: preventing harmful condensation in and on building components

• Students demonstrate a basic understanding of structural and building physics.

• Students will learn the fundamentals of energy efficiency in buildings. They will be able to understand and apply an energy balance analysis for buildings (transmission, heat losses from ventilation, solar gains, internal gains). They will know which parameters reduce a building's energy consumption and optimize the indoor climate.

• Students apply calculations related to moisture protection (Glaser diagram, hygrothermal calculations, and simulations) and summer overheating (simplified method and detailed method according to ÖN B 8110-3)

Lecture supported by single- and group exercises
Use of Calculation and Simulation-Tools

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

First steps own style-driven work under supervision, coping with a small, simple building task.

• The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

Exercise

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

Instructions in the process of production of architectural own projects starting with basic geometric shapes, via a consideration of space usage and functionality to clarifying architectural demands. Conscious reflexive approach of the relationship between hand and mind, idea and its visual implementation.

• Students develop the ability to design architecture.

• Students interpret designs and buildings.

• Students gain their first experience of the design process.

ILV Fast individual progress through a combination of acquisition of theoretical knowledge and applied work.

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

BK lecture: walls, stairs

• Students explain the main relationships and construction forms of walls.

• Students explain the main relationships and construction forms of stairs.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

In the subject "PLANDARSTELLUNG UND BAUTECHNISCHES ZEICHNEN" the basics of drawing, building regulations and submission planning are taught.
A submission plan and a foreman's plan excerpt are to be drawn in the exercise.

• Students specify the legal and technical requirements of the submission planning.

• Students draw a submittal plan and a foreman's plan abstract.

Exercise

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

Introduction, theoretical basis for describing the construction materials, development of characteristics and application in the first material groups.
Formulation of basic knowledge (production, essential technical features, product forms) about the individual building materials, i.e. glass, ceramics, plastics, binders, wood, steel, concrete.

Information on material standards.

• Students will be able to apply materials, their most essential properties and their importance in sustainable construction.

• Students will be able to interpret the basic parameters of building materials.

ILV

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

- ecological performance of relevant building materials
- different assessment methods für building materials and constructions
- alternative construction methods with reduced enviromental footprint

• Students name the targets for reducing greenhouse gases and limiting global warming and will be able to list the main requirements of the EU regarding the energy performance of buildings.

• The students know legal and normative national and international requirements for the use of sustainable building materials.

• Students assign aspects in evaluating the sustainability of buildings

Lecture: presentations and independent consolidation of the topic with various exercises and examples

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Introduction to the activities of the architectural profession.
Dealing with space, form, light, proportion, material.
Basics of the "design concept" idea.
Understanding of creativity in terms of green building and integrated design.
Introduction to the special requirements of Green Building.

• Students will be able to explain the activities of the architectural profession.

• Students know about the use of space, form, light, proportion, material.

• Students will be able to consider the specific requirements of green building in relation to the implementation of a concrete "design idea".

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Basics of constitutional and administrative law with reference to the construction industry: different types of sources of legal knowledge and their origin, specific constitutional provisions as the basis of public construction law, organization of authorities and courts and corresponding jurisdiction in relation to the construction industry, basics of administrative procedural law including construction procedures and related key terms such as ordinance, decision, party status, appeal procedures in relation to the construction industry, overview of spatial planning law;

Overview of judicial criminal law and differentiation from administrative criminal law and tort law according to the Austrian Civil Code, responsible officer according to the Administrative Offenses Act.

Overview of trade law and differentiation from the professional law of civil engineers

Land register law and cadastre

Property law terms relevant to the construction industry using land register law (different types of ownership, possession, lien/mortgage, easement, real charge, building right, superädifikat, etc.).

Basics of contract law: conclusion of contract, cost estimate, general terms and conditions, delay in delivery, delay in acceptance, delay in payment, retention of title, securing claims (bank guarantee, retention of liability, penalty, etc.), warranty, guarantee, compensation law, product liability law, etc,

Overview of copyright law for construction plans

• After successfully completing the course, students will be able to systematically understand and classify the most important legal steps for the realization of a construction project and apply them in practice. They will be able to explain the main features of constitutional and administrative law with special reference to the construction industry and distinguish between the different types of sources of legal knowledge and their origins. Furthermore, they understand the constitutional framework as the basis of public construction law and can describe the organization of authorities and courts as well as their responsibilities in the construction industry. Students are also able to explain the zoning plan as a central instrument of local spatial planning and assess its legal significance for construction projects.

• Students master the essential basics of administrative procedural law, particularly in the context of construction procedures. They will be able to correctly apply key terms such as decision, party status and appeal procedures and assess their significance for construction projects. They will be able to differentiate between judicial criminal law, administrative criminal law and civil law on damages and understand the role and responsibility of a responsible officer under the Administrative Penal Code. Students know the basic provisions of trade law and can clearly distinguish this from the professional law of civil engineers.

• Students will be able to systematically explain the key concepts of property law in the construction industry and apply their practical significance in connection with land register law. In particular, they will be able to explain different forms of ownership and the legal difference to possession and apply them to construction-related issues. In addition, they understand the function and legal structure of liens (especially mortgages) for financing construction projects and can analyze and evaluate easements (servitudes), real charges as well as building rights and superädifikates with regard to their significance for the use and development of land. In the area of land register law and cadastre, they are able to explain the basic structures and analyze their significance for the planning and implementation of construction projects. In particular, they understand the structure of the land register as well as the functioning of the public faith of the land register and the principles of registration. They will be able to explain the role of the land register as a technical counterpart to the land register. Students will also be able to read and interpret extracts from the land register - even in complex and multi-layered cases - and derive the relevant legal consequences for the planning, execution and utilization of construction projects.

• In the area of contract law, students will be able to explain how contracts are concluded and differentiate between key content such as cost estimates, general terms and conditions and various types of default (default in delivery, acceptance and payment). They will be able to assess instruments for securing receivables such as bank guarantees, liability retentions and penalties. They are also able to apply the legal concepts of warranty, guarantee, compensation and product liability in practice. In addition, they will understand the basic aspects of copyright law in connection with construction plans and be able to assess its relevance in practice. Overall, after completing the course, students will be able to analyze legal issues in the construction industry in a structured manner and make well-founded decisions in the context of project management. In particular, they will understand the interdisciplinary relationship between legal framework conditions and technical planning and execution processes and will be able to take these into account mutually. In addition, they are able to communicate with legal stakeholders - in particular lawyers, notaries and courts - in a technically precise manner.

Practice-oriented lecture involving the students
Exercise examples and cases

Final exam: Written exam: multiple choice - moodle - paper pencil

Basics of statics, force concept, determination of the supporting forces of rigid bodies, basics of the determination of internal forces, trusses, determination of centers of gravity, sliding verification, tilting verification, area moment of inertia

• Students calculate simple static structures and their support forces. .

• Students determine the internal forces occurring in the cross section

• Students can perform a tilt and slide check

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Introduction to Rhino3D using the example of curves and surfaces
Parametric drawing with Grasshopper
Optimization with Galapagos

• The students will be able to construct curves and surfaces in Rhino3D, deliberately modify their parameters, and interpret the resulting geometric changes.

• The students will be able to use the core components of Grasshopper in a targeted manner to create parametric geometric models.

• The students will be able to explain the functional principle of the optimisation tool Galapagos and describe its role in the parametric design process.

• The students will be able to independently select, install, and apply additional plug-ins for Grasshopper to extend the functionality of their parametric models.

Lecture with examples

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Presentation techniques in color, schematic representation of buildings and bodies, interpretation of materiality through the use of various analog media.

• Students apply presentation techniques with color.

• Students sketch buildings and bodies.

• Students interpret materiality through the use of various analog media.

Exercise

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

Preparation of the energy certificate
Sound insulation and room acoustics
Thermal bridge analysis
Life cycle assessment of buildings and recycling management
Fundamentals of fire protection

• Upon successful completion of the course, students are able to prepare an energy performance certificate for residential and non-residential buildings in compliance with relevant standards, by correctly determining the conditioned zone, conditioned gross volume, reference area, and building envelope according to ÖNORM B 1800 and ÖNORM B 8110-6-1, assigning appropriate building categories and usage profiles in accordance with OIB Guideline 6, and critically assessing the influence of building geometry, construction type, and building services systems on the heating energy demand.

• Upon successful completion of the course, students are able to assess the acoustic performance of buildings, distinguishing between airborne and impact sound transmission, interpreting weighted sound insulation indices (Rw, R′₍res,w₎) and spectrum adaptation terms (C, Ctr), and verifying compliance with the requirements of OIB Guideline 5 for external and internal building components, taking into account building use and external noise exposure.

• Upon successful completion of the course, students are able to address fire safety requirements within building design, by classifying the fire behaviour of construction materials, conceptually evaluating the fire resistance of building components, and critically analysing the impact of energy-related and building services measures (e.g. insulation materials, service penetrations, technical systems) on structural fire safety within an integrated building concept.

Lecture supported by single- and group exercises
Use of Calculation and Simulation-Tools

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

- Implementation of a design task: preparation of general data, analysis, collection of examples, collection of materials, study of parameters, definition of essential design criteria,
finding the design idea, alternative studies, further development and formulation of the design to the specified level of detail, presentation in the required plans and scales, model, perspective sketches, rendering, description -
public oral presentation based on the plans and the model

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• Students deal with "smallness" in architecture.

• Students reproduce the essential parameters of the task.

• Students demonstrate appropriate methods of analysis.

• Students create a space program.

• Students implement the respective design task and develop drawings and details.

• Students present their design task orally in public using the plans and a model.

Exercise

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

Guidance in the process of producing architecture of one's own projects beginning with the analysis of basic forms, through the examination of functionality and use, to the clarification of architectural demands. Conscious reflection on the relationship between hand and mind, idea and visual implementation.

• Students know the respective design task of the semester.

• Students reproduce the essential parameters of the task.

• Students demonstrate appropriate methods of analysis.

• Students create a space program.

Rapid development of individual skills through the acquisition of theoretical knowledge.

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

BK Lecture: basement, ceilings, windows, flat roof

• Students explain the main relationships and construction forms of basements, ceilings, windows and flat roofs.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

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• Students create detailed design M 1:50

• Students create a detailed plan M 1:10, 1:5

• Students create a façade section M 1:20, with relevant information on materiality, sun protection, lighting and ventilation.

• Students create an elaboration of the staircase (ground plan, sections)

Exercise

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

Introduction to spatial planning, in public construction law and in the legal system in Austria. The relationship of the building lease to other legal matters of public law. The basic provisions of the Building Code for Vienna and its subsidiary legislation (building, town planning, building site creation, resource usage agreements and procedures, authorities and parties). Ancillary provisions for building code for Vienna. Overview of the system of investment law in Austria.

• Students present the basics of spatial planning, building law and plant law in Austria.

• Students will be able to analyze the structure of construction law and its interrelationships with other related legal matters.

• Students will be able to define and consider key terms and major provisions of the Vienna Building Code.

• Students interpret complex formulations of the Vienna Building Code and ancillary laws.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Basics of construction site organization, building management and the building industry.
Methods of costing and cost tracking and cost control.
Basics of construction planning and scheduling.
Fundamentals of quality and performance control.
Introduction to the management of claims.
Application of construction and contract law.

• Students will be able to define the fundamentals of construction site organization, construction management, and construction operations.

• Students explain the methods of cost determination and cost tracking or cost control.

• Students will be able to apply the fundamentals of construction scheduling and scheduling.

• Students explain the basics of quality and performance control.

• Students name the basic features of claim management.

• Students will be able to explain the life cycle of real estate.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Basics, material properties, design based on calculations of torque of shear force, torsion load, trusses, frames, stability, fire protection, connections, wind-bracing, corrosion protection, welding and screw connections, exercises, evidence according to Eurocode 1 of 1993 and 1995-1 EUROCODE.

• Students explain the basics of steel and timber construction and material properties.

• Students design components for moment, shear force and torsion loads.

• Students define and calculate: Beam systems for building and industrial construction.

• Students define and calculate: Support systems for residential construction: construction methods in wood and wood-hybrid

• Students explain fire protection and corrosion protection.

• Students explain wood, welded and bolted connections (bracing of buildings, connection technology).

• Students perform verifications according to Eurocode 1993-1 and Eurocode 1995-1.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Effect of reinforced concrete, material characteristics, plan representation of components and structures made of reinforced concrete, rated on torque of shear force and Torsional stress SPE, stability, reinforcement, components made of unreinforced concrete, training and assessment of fundamental and support buildings, exercises, certificates according to Eurocode 1992-1.

• Students explain how reinforced concrete and technology work.

• Students name the material properties.

• Students explain the plan representation of structural elements and structures made of reinforced concrete.

• Students design components for moment, shear force and torsion loads.

• Students explain stability and reinforcement design.

• Students explain structural members made of unreinforced concrete.

• Students train and design foundations and supporting structures.

• Students carry out verifications according to Eurocode 1992-1.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

stress analysis (axial stress, shear stress, bending stress), strain, stability analysis, deformation, Proof of stability, deformation, modeling, load derivation, load influence surfaces, preliminary design, stiffening systems, vocabulary list.

• Students determine stresses and strains.

• Students calculate deformations of simple statically determinate structures.

• Students perform simple stability proofs.

• Students develop simple static systems.

• Students represent load dissipation.

• Students pre-dimension individual components.

• Students explain bracing options for buildings.

• Students discuss the above representations using examples.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Eras from antiquity to Baroque.
Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome.
Early Christianity with the Eastern Roman Empire.
Romanesque: construction machinery and components of sacral building.
Gothic architecture.
Renaissance, humanism and Renaissance architecture.
Baroque, classicism, historicism, examples in Europe.
Eras from Art Nouveau to Modernism, 20th Century and the present.
Turn of the century architecture (Art Nouveau).
Classic Modern Art (Bauhaus), functionalism.
Sculpturalism.
Postmodernism, deconstructionism.
High-tech architecture.
Civil engineering.
Contemporary architecture.

• Students characterize the major periods in the history of architecture and art.

• Students establish connections between art and architecture.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

This course gives an overview and an introduction to the main theories of Western architectural history and explains their position within the larger historical context. The lecture describes the different ideas and theories which ultimately led to modernity and modern architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries. Special attention is paid to developments which deal with the relationship between architecture and the environment, underlining their relevance for the present.

• Students will be able to identify major approaches to architectural theory with reference to architectural history and design concepts.

• Students develop a basic understanding of the construction of architectural discourse and the evaluation of artistic ideas.

• Students develop a basic understanding of the construction of architectural discourse and the evaluation of artistic ideas.

• Students know the basic literature for independent consolidation of the course content.

Lecture, online Film-clips, short design sketches

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Introduction to scientific work: Collection of Materials; Outline; Table of Contents; Citation; Notes; Appendix; List of Figures and References; Index; Typeface; Rules of Citation.

• Students explain the importance of scientific work.

• Students explain the characteristics of scientific questions.

• Students apply methods for collecting material.

• Students implement the formal requirements for scientific papers.

Seminar

Continuous assessment: Exercise

Building-Heat-Balance
Designing for specific climate conditions
Thermal comfort
Noise protection and acoustics
Heat-bridge analysis
fire protection

• Students independently carry out dimensioning of building physics.

• Students carry out building physics verifications independently.

Lecture together wirh calculation-exercises and measurements

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Terms and principles in the field of water management and environmental protection.
Basics of urban water construction.
Drinking water supply and drainage.
Alternatives to conventional systems.
Stormwater management.
Water features.
Water fountains, swimming pools.

• The topic of building greening and water management on buildings (green-blue infrastructure) is taught: - up to date specialist knowledge - practice-oriented solutions

• Real planning and implementation examples for illustration and consolidation

• Implementation-oriented and standard-compliant understanding of the subject matter

• - Tips and tricks from professionals in the green building sector - and much more

• Immerse yourself in the topic of greening buildings (green-blue infrastructure) and NbS (nature-based solutions).

• Get to know the latest state of the art with the help of standards, directives, guidelines and best practice examples.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exam after completion of the course

Convert a design task: preparation of the general data analysis, sample collection, material collection, study of the parameters defining the essential design criteria, finding the design idea, alternative studies, development and formulation of the draft to the predetermined level of detail, as shown in the required plans and standards, model, perspective sketches, rendering description. Public oral presentation based on the plans and the model.

• Students are able to implement the complex processes of a design task in partial steps in their own design.

• Students apply appropriate analytical methods.

• Students carry out research work.

• Students create a spatial program corresponding to the task and interpret it.

• Students present the design using the methods learned and the appropriate level of detail.

• Students present their design to the public.

Exercise

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

Introduction to the respective design task according to the semester program, presentation of the main parameters of the object. I.E. collection and presentation of appropriate analytical methods, How to create a space program, philosophical introduction to the subject.

• Students know the respective design task of the semester.

• Students reproduce the essential parameters of the task.

• Students demonstrate appropriate methods of analysis.

• Students create a space program.

ILV

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Introduction to the Central European climate zone and its demands on buildings.
Traditional and modern solutions in building.
Reading sun charts and interpretation into the building design.
Relationships of material, material properties, area of application, sunlight, building functions and their synthesis in the building design.

• Students explain the Central European climate zone and its requirements for the building.

• Students independently identify site-appropriate climate-smart building concepts.

• Students explain in-depth knowledge of the Central European climate zone and its requirements for the building.

• Students explain the relationships between material, material property, application area, wind, precipitation, cooling, humidity, building functions and their synthesis in building design.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Discussion of the 3 criteria for climate-friendly building:
1. Planning, building, using and recycling without disturbing the climate
2. Build according to the specific, local climatic conditions
3. Resilience: To build according to the future climatic conditions
Based on this, climate-friendly buildings are to be designed for 3 specific building sites in different climate zones (Northern Mexico, Colombia and Estonia). In a first step, the conditions must be clarified and then the corresponding buildings must be designed.

• Students develop solution proposal for simple connection wind, precipitation, cooling, humidity in building volume and functions of low complexity.

• Students implement various other lecture contents in further exercises as examples.

• Students design buildings that do not negatively affect the climate.

Lectures (power point), discussion, research work on climate and building culture in 3 selected different climate zones, design work with intensive supervision by the lecturers

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

BK Lecture: Structures

• Students work out the interrelationships and construction forms of building structures.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

BK-Exercise: Structures

• Students design simple structures.

Exercise

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

Theoretical topics and practical examples of urban planning and urban design in terms of the historical development of cities, their morphology, scale, environment and the current situation of present towns.
Basics of spatial planning, the spatial planning policy and the current situation in Austria.
Multidisciplinary topics between spatial planning, urban planning/design and architecture.

Application of spatial analysis with the help of instruments for monitoring and evaluation. Presentation of theoretical frameworks and urban planning approaches.
• Understanding of the tension between be permanence and change
• Understanding of the influence of topography on structures
• Understanding of scale.
Content: Presentation of typological analysis to the understanding of size and materiality in the cultural expression of the city.

• Students will be able to factor in the challenges of urban design tasks, especially in the context of a complex construction project.

• Students explain the current problems of spatial planning and land use planning.

Lectures, literature research, discussions.

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Development of residential construction in Austria, communal residential project, floor plan types (flat types, portico types, point homes, special shapes), room types and sizes, standards and legal aspects, accessibility, tanning, exposure and density, individual and community areas, community facilities and living environment, latest developments such as assemblies or modern legal forms (tenement house syndicate).

• Students will be able to consider the historical development of housing in general and in Austria with a focus on ecological housing.

• Students will be able to define the design criteria in residential construction.

• Students develop their own viewpoints on key aspects of contemporary housing.

Lecture with rich illustrations and analysis of selected project examples. Discussion between the participants and with the lecturer.

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Fundamentals of sociology in the context of architecture and urban planning, architectural sociology:
Discussion of the social production, use and interpretation of architecture, development of current conditions, development of trends, investigating ways of life and life experiences in the modern city and the region.
International perspectives and architectural sociology in other countries.
The meaning of architectural sociology for architects and planners, clarification of their own role and their own attitude.

• Students explain the basics of general sociology in the context of architecture and urban planning, sociology of architecture.

• Students know International Perspective and Sociology of Architecture.

• Students discuss the significance of the sociology of architecture for architects and planners.

• Students reflect on their own role and attitude.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Building on the 3rd semester course "Introduction to Scientific Work", students should become familiar with the most important formats of scientific competence and generate these themselves.

• Students are able to generate the most common formats of science communication.

0.75 LP UE 1.25 LP Distance learning (work fragment)

Continuous assessment: Exercises and presentations

Integrative Building Automation
Building automation and networking
Building automation and bus systems
Integration of storage and generation in building management systems.
Possible demands and benefits of the integration with Smart Grid

• Students know the most important elements of building automation.

• Students know the terms smart building and smart home.

• Students explain the most commonly used bus systems in building automation.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Refrigeration components and systems.
Systems of water-guided refrigeration distribution, storage and delivery.
Cooling load calculation.
Ventilation and air-supported air conditioning in non-residential buildings.
Lighting and Exposure Engineering.
Building operations, instrumentation and control, and building monitoring.
Innovative energy building concepts in non-residential construction.
Cross-building energy concepts.
Thermal building simulation.

• Students implement the contents of the corresponding lecture in exercises.

Exercise

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

• Innovations and their effects.
• Bionic factors influencing energy systems in the heating and cooling sector.
• Energy harvesting and system limits of the individual areas.
• Energy storage systems and their space requirements and restrictions

• Students can describe what types of innovation there are and how they can be brought about.

• Students understand how customer requirements and customer satisfaction can be measured, analyzed and implemented.

• Students are familiar with different bionic concepts for heat and cold storage and reduction.

• Students know different methods for energy harvesting.

• Students can explain and describe sustainable energy systems.

• Students are able to dimension energy storage systems for the respective applications.

• Students are familiar with innovative energy-efficient building concepts in non-residential construction.

• Students are familiar with cross-building energy concepts.

• Students are able to carry out space requirement analyses for the different energy systems.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Convert a design task: preparation of the general data analysis, sample collection, material collection, study of the parameters defining the essential design criteria, finding the design idea, alternative studies, development and formulation of the draft to the predetermined level of detail, as shown in the required plans and standards, model, perspective sketches, rendering description. Public oral presentation based on the plans and the model.

• Students know the respective design task of the semester.

• Students reproduce the essential parameters of the task.

• Students demonstrate appropriate methods of analysis.

• Students prepare public oral presentation of the design task.

• Students make a model.

Exercise

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

Feature Based Design and Production

Teaching the necessity of process thinking and linking information in digital production. Overview of the overall process starting with data-based design up to automated production with the goal of "mass customization".
Presentation of the fundamentals in the digitalization and automation of production processes (including in the construction industry) with a focus on different manufacturing methods and their useful applications based on case studies.
The course also offers an introduction to the dynamic data-based generation of parametric input values for digital production processes using algorithms as an extension of (static) parametric design methods.
 

• Students are familiar with each semester's design assignment.

• Students reproduce the essential parameters of the task.

• Students demonstrate appropriate methods of analysis.

• Students prepare public oral presentation of the design task.

• Students make a model.

Lecture / Practical exercise

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to parametric design and its possible applications in architecture. Students learn the basic concepts, techniques and tools of parametric design and how they can use them to design sustainable building projects. They also learn about the necessity of process thinking and the linking of information in digital production. Students are given an overview of the overall process from data-based design to automated production. The basics of digitalization and automation of production processes in the construction industry as well as the dynamic, data-based generation of parametric input values for digital production processes using algorithms are also covered. The course also lays the foundation for further topics such as generative design and the use of artificial intelligence in the architectural design process.

• Students are able to apply the fundamentals and techniques of parametric design to projects.

• Students are able to create and optimize parametric models.

• Students are able to provide an overview of the digitalization and automation of production processes.

UE

Final exam: The specific assessment method is determined in the first course.

The exercise provides theoretical and practical knowledge of the basic tools and techniques for the three-dimensional design process. Students are confronted with getting to know, testing and deepening different analog and digital presentation methods. One focus is on the
interaction of various representational media and tools. In-depth form analyses and form studies are carried out based on the development of sculptural objects.

• Students are able to apply tools and techniques for the three-dimensional design process.

• Students are able to carry out form analyses and form studies based on the development of sculptural objects.

• Students are able to design sculptural objects.

Exercise

Final exam: Final exam

The theoretically taught expertise is applied to professional practice.

• Students apply the theoretically imparted specialist knowledge in professional practice.

PR

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

In this course the general conditions for the work placement are presented, followed by a discussion of the students' questions.

The students have to present their papers for approx. 5 to 8 minutes in class.

• Students know the framework conditions for the "in-service internship".

• Students present their internship activities.

1 LP

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

BK lecture: roof trusses, pitched roof, doors

• Students explain the interrelationships and construction forms of roof trusses, pitched roofs and doors; present the construction forms of roof trusses, pitched roofs and doors in drawings.

• Students explain the interrelationships and construction forms of floors and facades.

• Students represent the structure of floors and facades in drawings.

• Students know the contents of a fire protection concept.

• Students explain the principles of structural, technical, organisational and defensive fire protection.

• Students recognise the main conceptual approaches to fire protection in real buildings.

• distinguish the requirements between design and construction for new and existing buildings;

• Students analyze historical building forms.

• Students present historical building forms in their constructive and design development.

• Students recognise common damage patterns and causes, especially in buildings from the Wilhelminian period.

• Students know methods of documentation and remediation of structural damage.

• Students know legal and official regulations for building in existing structures.

• Students evaluate the load-bearing capacity of existing structures.

• Students apply content from historic preservation, soil mechanics, and historic building construction and equipment.

• Students explain procedures for the evaluation of the actual state and economic measures for energetic refurbishment (building envelope, systems engineering).

• Students explain innovative digitalization options in the construction industry.

• Students use digital implementations as examples.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Strategic principles of lifecycle planning and operation of buildings
Influences of construction, building and equipment life cycle
Basis for the calculation of life-cycle costs,
Classification and calculation of life cycle costs on the basis of the ÖNORM B1801-1
Basics of constructional and technical maintenance management of buildings

• Students explain the strategic principles of life cycle oriented planning and operation of buildings.

• Students explain the influences of construction, building and systems engineering on the life cycle.

• Students exemplify the basis for determining life cycle costs.

• Students classify and calculate life cycle costs based on ÖNORM B1801-1.

• Students explainthe basics of structural and plant maintenance management of buildings.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Convert a design task: preparation of the general data analysis, sample collection, material collection, study of the parameters defining the essential design criteria, finding the design idea, alternative studies, development and formulation of the draft to the predetermined level of detail, as shown in the required plans and standards, model, perspective sketches, rendering description. Public oral presentation based on the plans and the model.

• Students develop an architectural concept and a resulting building design for the topics "Living for nursing and care - social center lifestyle.

• Students demonstrate appropriate analytical methods and build analytical models.

• Students prepare public oral presentation of the design task.

• Students create presentation drawings at various scales.

Exercise

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

Introduction to the respective design task according to the semester program, presentation of the main parameters of the object. I.E. collection and presentation of appropriate analytical methods, How to create a space program, philosophical introduction to the subject.

• Students know the respective design task of the semester.

• Students reproduce the essential parameters of the task.

• Students demonstrate appropriate methods of analysis.

• Students prepare public oral presentation of the design task.

• Students make a model.

ILV

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Basics of lighting techniques and lighting planning, lamps and lighting technology, visual light perception, economy contemplation of lighting solutions, analytical lighting for the applications office, industry, shop and lighting in outdoor areas.

• Students explain the basics of lighting technology and lighting design.

• Students describe the lamps and luminaires technology.

• Students can explain visual light perception and comprehend biological light effects.

• Students evaluate the economic efficiency of lighting solutions.

• Students analyze the artificial lighting solutions of the applications office, industry, retail and outdoor lighting.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Sustainability of components and constructions

+ Current trends and developments
+ Durability and serviceability of constructions - guidelines and standards
+ Assessment of components and constructions
- simplified/stationary
- detailed/over time
+ Dimensioning and evaluation of components and constructions
+ Transient hygric-thermal simulation of components and constructions
- Building material parameters and modelling
- Climate data
- Output sizes
- Calculation and assessment

• Students explicate the current trends and developments of sustainable components and constructions.

• Students explain the essential contents and methods from guidelines, standards and codes of practice for assessing the durability and serviceability of structures.

• Students dimension and assess components and constructions.

• Students calculate and evaluate building material parameters, modelling, climate data.

• Students calculate and evaluate output quantities of components and constructions within the framework of transient hygric-thermal simulation.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

In this course we will discuss and set social sustainability in context with sustainability in general. We will focus on housing and urban development. Furthermore, we will find out how social sustainability can be measured by analyzing case studies. Social sustainability will be set in context with urban development processes. Especially the intersection between human and building or city will be analyzed with special focus on models of representation and citizen participation during the planning process.

• Students develop an understanding of the social sustainability.

• Students develop an understanding of the (difficulties of) measuring social sustainability.

• Students describe when and for what purpose future users can participate.

• Students know success factors for participation processes.

• Students know successful examples.

Lecture and field trips

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

Increasing knowledge about daylight and it’s designing in architecture, light in rooms, relationships between light openings, room sizes, depths of space, surfaces and daylight supply. Influence of window types, sizes, location, frame ratio, quality of glazing on daylight supply. Creating the right atmosphere using different ways to contribute daylight. Light and color, photo physiology.
Facade engineering, shading and sun protection, daylight aspects in renovation.
Application of simple planning tools.

• Students explain the specifications of daylight and its design in architecture.

• Students consciously design the daylight quality of a building as resulting from a design.

Lecture with practical exercises and application of simulation tools and measuring instruments

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Basics of design, office buildings, public buildings, educational institutions, health, sports and leisure, and culture.
Overview of the functional organization of the main types of buildings, the experience of the design projects are considered, in-depth analysis of selected complex buildings, their hybrid use, the design and programming.

• Students develop an approach to the process of designing and constructing buildings.

• Students know the basics of specific building science for essential building types and their structural context.

ILV

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

BK lecture: floors, facades

• Students explain the interrelationships and construction forms of floors and facades.

• Students represent the structure of floors and facades in drawings.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

BK lecture: floors, facades

• Students explain the interrelationships and construction forms of floors and facades.

• Students represent the structure of floors and facades in drawings.

Exercise

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to generative design and the application of artificial intelligence in architecture. Students will learn how generative design processes change the creative and technical work of architects and what new opportunities and challenges arise from this. The course includes theoretical basics as well as practical exercises with an overview of the latest AI tools. In addition, discussions about the future development of architecture in the context of AI will be encouraged. The aim is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to integrate generative design and AI into their architectural projects at an early stage.

• Students can use their understanding of the basics of generative design to apply AI tools in architecture.

• Students are able to deal with the future role of the architect in the age of AI based on their insight into future developments and professional opportunities and challenges in the architecture industry.

UE

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Basics of fire protection and fire protection concepts: legal and technical basics, fire protection planning
Contents of fire protection concepts: Fundamentals of structural, technical, organizational fire protection
Fire protection concepts in practice

• Students know the contents of a fire protection concept.

• Students explain the principles of structural, technical, organisational and defensive fire protection.

• Students recognise the main conceptual approaches to fire protection in real buildings.

Lecture, small work in groups

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Building culturally appropriate handling of the inventory
Dealing with the historic structures and their time appropriate extension
Application of content of preservation, soil mechanics, as well as historical building construction and equipment,
Procedures for assessing status, economic measures for the energy-related modernization (building, equipment),
Establishment of types of buildings, including their problems,
Methods of Foundation studies and ground studies in old buildings, stability calculation of foundations,
Methods of Foundation rehabilitation - education
Legislative issues, impact of new construction on the Foundation of adjacent buildings,
Legal or regulatory provisions in attic-buildings or increases,
Examples.

• Students distinguish the requirements between design and construction for new and existing buildings.

• Students analyze historical building forms.

• Students present historical building forms in their constructive and design development.

• Students recognise common damage patterns and causes, especially in buildings from the Wilhelminian period.

• Students know methods of documentation and remediation of structural damage.

• Students know legal and official regulations for building in existing structures.

• Students evaluate the load-bearing capacity of existing structures.

• Students apply content from historic preservation, soil mechanics, and historic building construction and equipment.

• Students know procedures for the evaluation of the actual state and economic measures for energetic refurbishment (building envelope, systems engineering).

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Public Procurement and tendering with the service description for constructions.
You learn about the basics of the current BVergG (federal act on public procurement) and common standards.
Contents of the LB-HB 021
Examination of offers according to the BVergG
Element method of ÖNORM B1801-1
Building Information Modeling and tendering

• Students create a bill of quantities according to ÖNORM A2063 and BVergG.

• Students check bids according to BVergG.

• Students prepare a cost plan and a bill of quantities using the element method of ÖNORM B1801-1.

• Students prepare a cost plan using IFC-file.

Lecture: Bring your notebook and create the specifications with the softwaretools of ABK

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

see integrated Moodle course - partial excerpt
:- construct "project" and project management approaches-
project

types and project delimitation-
tools and methods of project management:
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scheduling and cost planning -
project

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• The students independently perform various subtasks of project management within the framework of a project organization.

• Students are able to apply the essential project management methods in all project phases in a practical manner.

• Students will be able to develop a project manual.

• Students develop a basic social competence to participate in team-oriented project work.

see integrated Moodle course - partial excerpt
:This course is partly (50% of the course content) held according to the Flipped Classroom concept. This means that the theoretical input is provided in advance as part of an online phase, in order to deepen the theoretical content in the presence of practical exercises and tasks.

Approx. 50% of the course content is acquired by the students via lecture, group work, presentation and discussion of the exercise examples.

 

Final exam: Formative Assessment

Convert a design task: preparation of the general data analysis, sample collection, material collection, study of the parameters defining the essential design criteria, finding the design idea, alternative studies, development and formulation of the draft to the predetermined level of detail, as shown in the required plans and standards, model, perspective sketches, rendering description. Public oral presentation based on the plans and the model.

• Students interpret multiple aspects of architecture.

• Students make and communicate personal architectural decisions.

• Students independently develop a design concept based on the current state of knowledge.

• Students bring together urban planning, programmatic and constructive parameters with spatial ideas and present them.

Exercise

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.

The knowledge acquired in individual subjects is applied in an interdisciplinary manner in the execution of a fictitious construction project. The exercise project is worked on in depth by the students in teams. The exercise covers the subject areas of planning, building physics, construction and construction management and spans an arc from the architectural preliminary design to the award.

• Students develop a fictitious building project from the architectural preliminary design to the calculation of the offer.

• Students network the learning outcomes of their studies.

Exercise with approx. 14-day correction dates.

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session..

Introduction to certification systems, their history, development and future significance. Objectives, structure and composition, evaluation methods, aggregated figures, criteria sets of individual methods in comparison, calculation examples.

• Students recognize the interrelationships and systematics of building certification (goals, structure and setup).

• Students provide an overview of national and international building rating systems.

• Students shed light on methodological approaches as well as possible applications for national building assessment systems.

• Students present the collection of objective, comprehensible and verifiable data for a sustainability-oriented overall assessment of the building.

• Students optimize the building in terms of reducing environmental impact and improving user comfort.

• Students master central tools for the implementation of building certifications (life cycle assessments, life cycle cost calculations, product management,...).

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

Introduction to indoor environmental analysis, air pollutants (VOC, formaldehyde, mold) and room air examination methods, indoor climate, electromagnetic fields, house dust, building hygiene rating, sick building syndrome, airflow measurements.
Recording of parameters, measurements and evaluations for living and working.

• Students know the problems of indoor analytics.

• Students know the dangers of air pollutants (VOC, formaldehyde, mold).

• Students know and apply indoor air testing methods.

• Students know and apply air flow measurements and record the required parameters.

• Students measure and evaluate air pollutants for living and working.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

In the center of the work free space planning is the mediation between landscape architectural planning and action. At the beginning is the clarification of key terms. The landscape as the actual field of action, landscape architecture rather than man-made structures, which have always been transformed. In the city, as well as, in the country, and in between. Types of open spaces and the degree of public opinion contribute to the debate. The next focus is the introduction to the landscape architectonic design. Basics of space education are discussed, as well as the shape of the elements of the free space. Then contemporary projects will be presented and analyzed together.
Basis for the planning of
• private parcels in the city,
• the courts of the country,
• neighborhood garden and community gardens,
• International Garden and
• public open spaces.

• Students explain the nature of landscape architectural planning and action.

• Students discuss types of open spaces and the degree of publicness.

• Students develop the fundamentals of landscape architectural design.

• Students analyze contemporary projects.

Lecture

Final exam: The specific assessment tool will be decided on in the first session.

The architectural design is based on issues of the named context, the scenic inventory and checking free space-planning requirements. These can be conveyed within the framework of the design exercises and project-oriented exercise.
Methodology of designing for freedom
Application of the theoretical foundations of the lecture in individual projects
Presentation techniques for the presentation.

• Based on the theoretical foundations of the lecture, students develop a design based on questions of the large-scale context, the existing landscape, the design principles of open space planning and the verification of open space planning requirements.

• Students present this design individually and in teamwork.

Exercise

Continuous assessment: The assessment tool for partial performances will be decided on in the first session.