Course Leader:

lect.dr.arh. Laura Dobrescu

Teaching language:

Romanian

Learning outcomes:

The ability to correctly use building materials with certain properties in order to create architecture projects or systems, which correspond with the aesthetic requirements as well as the technical ones, correlated with an aesthetic and correct designing and with the right functional use of space;
The ability to understand, apply and solve certain architecture details; general solving principles by using traditional and modern building materials, finish materials and insulation materials;
Knowing the main physical and mechanical properties and the behaviour of certain base materials, indispensable properties for understanding set complex phenomena;
Knowing the way materials and products behave during exploitation and how they can be maintained.
Knowing and adapting to the supply and demand graph market and to the dynamic of the technological evolution.
To adhere to the currently used criteria, regarding the quality assurance of the products and of the services.

Content:

1. Materials that assure the essential safety conditions during exploitation;
Describing the performances and the choosing criteria; examples of good practice and case studies; introduction to the category of special modern materials, with special performances; materials for the compartmentalisation elements; walls; classification, examples from the modern/traditional architecture, case studies. Representation by correlating some material samples (ceramics).
2. Finish materials (boarded floors). Classification, examples from modern/traditional architecture, case studies. Representation by correlating some material samples (natural stone).
3. Finish materials (panel, interior and exterior walls, ceilings). Classification, examples from modern/traditional architecture, case studies. Representation by correlating some material samples (wood).
4. Materials for enclosing elements/casing and compartmentalisation (walls/windows, etc.). Classification, examples from modern/traditional architecture, case studies. Representation by correlating some material samples (glass).
5. Construction materials for the compounds of a building: structural and non-structural. Classification, examples from modern/traditional architecture, case studies. Representation by correlating some material samples (metal).
6. Insulation materials (thermal, acoustic, waterproof and fireproof). Classification, examples from modern/traditional architecture, case studies. Representation by correlating some material samples (plastic bodies).
7. Durable/ecological/recyclable materials. Classification, examples from modern/traditional architecture, case studies. Representation by correlating some material samples.

Teaching Method:

Teaching method at the seminar:
-The educational demonstration and visual observation;
-The display of material and product samples and their visual observation;
-The use of documentation notes and work notes;
-Teamwork (a group with a precise assignment, a small group, brainstorming, a creative group for making a project/ product);
- Problematize;
-Practice;
- Case study;
-Obtaining information from different resources (standard, normative, catalogues, presentation brochures, etc.);
-Oral and written exams, through which students demonstrate – as specified in the performance criteria required at the seminar/course – that they are able to: enumerate materials specific to their work categories, containing all the materials from the discussed chapter, to identify the material, to correlate the materials with the domain they are used in, to describe the materials; this will be demonstrated with the material cards, containing all the elements from the field of application, to verify the measurements of the materials, etc.;
Methods of educational representation at classes:
- Theoretical lectures followed by illustrative materials, digital presentations with a digital projector;
-Presentations such as ‘How it`s made’;
-Lectures from certain guests, who are specialized in the field of building materials;
-The heuristic discussion;
-Comparative analysis discussions.

Assessment:

The evaluation will consist in:
-The overall activity in classes – which represents the THEMATIC PROJECT (creating a synthetic card of certain groups of materials and answering a theoretical question), the total grades received at seminars represent 40% of the final grade;
-The grade received at the exam represents 60% of the final grade (minimum 5).
The exam will contain:
-To identify the materials (minimum half from the total number of materials) with a brief description and the use of the material;
Theoretical card, chosen from a preselected list of subjects.

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