Technical Sciences
Director: conf.dr.arh. Radu Pană
The Chair of Technical Sciences is a complex professional team: architects, and civil engineers, all of them having their practice, work together with researchers and scholars, most of them reputed personalities in their fields. That is why the activity of the chair is doubly open: on the one hand, to the architectural design and to all architectural topics, on the other side to the scientific research in the field.
The teaching combines the study of fundamental theoretical and applicative disciplines, together with exclusively technical disciplines. The disciplines are grouped around topical fields, and their structure logically follows a progressive complexity of knowledge and of the design work.
Thus, two parallel and complementary theoretical fields could be defined: Architectural Technology and Mathematics & Engineering Sciences. They are permanently completed by specific design activities.
The Architectural Technology constitutes a widely oriented field of study, whose teaching runs as follows:
During the junior and sophomore cycles, the teaching is mainly descriptive and analytical. It is focused on certain basic topics: building materials, their structural, technical characteristics in relation with their expressive qualities; the principles underlying the technological thinking, in general matters and in detailing; the structural and non-structural components of buildings, etc.
At the same time, subject matters as physics of buildings, and the technical approach to specific design problems of the interventions on existing buildings, are also studied.
These topics are synthetically studied on during the senior cycle (especially in the Faculty of Architecture). This time, the focus is on the concept of complex constructive structures. From performance requirements /standards, to the concept of complex design, a wide range of subject matters are studied.
Mathematics & Engineering Sciences course of study comprises a sequence of subjects that focus on the study of mechanics of structures, theory of current resistance structures, of special structures as well as on some specific problems pertaining to this field, such as, structural restoration.
Most of the lectures of the first three years are doubled by seminars and practice.
Subjects concerning the basic logic of technical equipment in buildings are also included in the curriculum.
To enable the students to practise and integrate this specific knowledge in their design work, the Chair coordinates technical studios in different years of study and academic units, according to their curricula. At the same time, the chair provides consultancy in the architectural design studios.
Research, design, expertise activities are carried on by the professionals of the Chair, individually or in collective works. Most of the studies, designs and evaluations drawn up within the Chair belong to the fields of energy conservation, structural engineering, implementation of modern technologies, interventions on existing buildings and architectural acoustics.
Five professors, five associate professors, eight junior lecturers, four assistant proffesors, five teaching assistents, of which three have obtained the Doctor Degree and eleven are in the doctoral programme.
A significant number of visiting professors, senior architects and civil engineers contribute and advise on the design activity as well as on the diploma projects.
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