Bachelor's of Architecture

STUDIO M1

General Data

Code: 86M801
Type of credits: ECTS
Number of credits: 10.00
Engagement hours: 300.00
ISCED-F: Architecture and town planning
Status: Mandatory
Academic Year: 1º
Term: 1º
Modality: Presential
Languages: English
Available for Mobility Students: Yes
Restricted to alliance: No

Coordination

Description

Students gain theoretical and practical knowledge about planning apartment buildings. They will be able to fulfil aesthetic, technical and functional conditions as well as use graphic and written/spoken language for presentation of a project to a non-professional public.

Subject area

Architecture – Multi-Apartment Buildings, Residential Architecture, Housing Typology, Studio Design

Requirements

Knowledge from urban and architectural planning acquired in the 1st degree of the Architecture Programme.

Instructors

doc. ROBERT POTOKAR

Contents

Lectures – selected topics in multi-apartment and multi-functional architecture:

  • Introduction to apartment building typology
  • General overview and typology of residential buildings
  • Apartment buildings across the world and in Slovenia
  • Single-apartment buildings across the world and in Slovenia
  • Apartment building regulations; Architectural awards – Piranesi
  • Examples from Vienna, Belgrade and Berlin; Sustainable building in Vorarlberg
  • Vernacular architecture, residential buildings and art, experimental architecture

Seminary/Project work phases:

  1. Introduction of project
  2. Analysis of example/reference
  3. Location analysis
  4. Concept scheme
  5. Programme scheme
  6. Model
  7. Floor plans, sections and facades
  8. Landscape planning
  9. 3D presentations
  10. Final submission

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding:

  • Identify and understand the process and methodology of multi-apartment housing planning
  • Approach the problem by research and consideration of rational planning methods
  • Understand and analyse differences between different typologies of multi-apartment construction
  • Summarise essences of various professional and scientific contents in the concept under consideration

Transferable/key skills:

  • Prepare starting points for design of a multi-apartment building
  • Assess a given location and critically evaluate building possibilities
  • Prepare an independent architectural plan solution of a multi-apartment building
  • Present the project as architectural drawings, description and model before an audience

Recommended Readings and Tools

Readings:

  • Kalmayer, H. (1998). Siedlungsmodelle – Ideen, Konzepte, Planungen. Prestel-Verlag.
  • A+T: Density 1. Barcelona, 2002.
  • Rainer, R. (1995). Vitale Urbanität – Wohnkultur und Stadtentwicklung. Böhlau Verlag.
  • Tipologija večstanovanjskih stavb. In obs medicus, 2009.
  • Kuhar, Š., Potokar, R. (2020). Zgodbe slovenske arhitekture. Beletrina.
  • Current legal regulations and rules.

Planned Activities

Lectures with PowerPoint slideshows. Seminary/project work as individual reviews and group presentations. Field trip.

Course structure:

  • Lectures: 30 hours
  • Seminars: 45 hours
  • Tutorial: 60 hours
  • Individual work: 165 hours
  • Total: 300 hours

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Assessment weights:

  • Seminar paper: 60%
  • Oral examination: 30%
  • Written examination or colloquium: 10%