BUILDING MATERIALS AND DESIGN
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- Academic year
- 2016/2017
- Teacher
- FABIO CONATO
- Credits
- 9
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- ICAR/12
Training objectives
- The aim of the course is to provide students a first knowledge about building materials and construction systems, in order to study, analyse and apply the technologies in a logic of operation of wide-ranging, according to the needs and performance approach.
Knowledge
The main acquired knowledge will be:
• Basics and fundamental technological concepts about the design, the construction process, the quality of construction and the buildings system through an examination of components’ performance related to expected requirements;
• The main families of construction technologies in use nowadays, concerning the various parts of buildings;
• Materials that constitute technical elements and works related to them in their physical, morphological and performance characteristics as well as their production processes;
• The role played by materials, technical elements and construction procedures in design, building, maintenance and management of a single building.
Abilities
The basic acquired abilities will be:
• Ability to analyze and employ the construction technologies in a logic of operation of wide-ranging;
• Use of knowledge and operational tools useful for the technological design at the different scales;
• Understanding and management of the basic problems related to the design of building envelope in relation to the enclosed spaces and including the interactions with the structural grid as well as the technological systems in order to coordinate the different skills that contribute to the construction of a building.
• Habit in examine technical elements and their interface as complex devices derived from a mixture of functional requirements which conform the logic matrix, which knowledge allows to consider the construction details as readable, understandable and editable entities. Prerequisites
- There are no specific requirements.
Course programme
- The course is divided into three theoretical sections - dedicated to the concept of building quality, construction systems and materials - and in a practical section, in which are held exercises aimed at improving the theoretical information.
The topics discussed in the lectures are:
- The building quality and the functional contents of technical elements (8 hours-lesson)
• Concept of quality in construction; housing quality, environmental quality, technological quality.
• The quality rule: concepts of requirements and performance and methods of control.
• Performances theory: classes of performance requirements for building components, performance of use and wellness, performance of safety, performance of integration and of appearance, performance of maintenance and management, performance of duration.
• The building system: environmental system and technological system, environmental units and technological units.
• The concept of boundary.
• The technological system; definition of classes of technological units and classes of technical elements.
- Types of construction of technical elements (14 hours-lesson)
• General classification of main types of construction technologies related to classes of technical elements.
• Structures; vertical structures.
• External vertical enclosures; external vertical walls, external window and door fixtures.
• Upper horizontal enclosures: roofing, roof coatings, external horizontal window frames.
• Lower horizontal enclosures: ground floors.
• Vertical internal partitions; vertical partition walls, vertical interior window and door fixtures.
• Horizontal internal partitions; floors/attics.
- Materials of technical elements and related works (18 hours-lesson)
• Limes, cement, pozzolanic ashes, casts.
• Ceramics, cotto tiles and gres.
• Steels, foils and extrusions.
• Paints and dyes.
• Insulation and waterproofing.
• Floor coverings and claddings
• Works in reinforced concrete and metal, steel works.
• Works in wood.
• Works in brick.
• Works in natural stones.
• Works in glass and polycarbonate works. Didactic methods
- The course consists of:
• lessons on the topics of the course;
• exercises, composed of brief checks done in class - about different parts of the same construction - and of a final draft, completed and revised, of the same contents;
• reviews;
• midterm interrogation, to verify student’s preparation on the first part of the program;
• lectures and conference held by architects and / or external stakeholders particularly ensure in the use of technology. Learning assessment procedures
- The access at the final examination is subjected to the presence of frequency.
The final result will be composed of the sum of the didactic components of which the course is made up:
• Brief checks, with the aim of verify the learning of the needs-performance method through the analysis of the main requirements necessary for environmental units to satisfy users' requirements. Subsequently students will have to design an assigned building, with morphology defined only in the most significant aspects, on the basis of the external conditions and defining the most significant structural nodes. These exercises will be marked with a score ranging from 0 to 5.
• Midterm interrogation, in order to verify the learning of the theoretical contents of the course.
• Final exercise, developed from brief checks in which each student will summarize with technical drawings all the contents discussed during the course. Also this final exercise will be marked from 0 to 5.
• Final examination, based on topics discussed in lessons, in supplementary teaching materials and in the texts specifically mentioned in the bibliography below. Reference texts
- - Boeri, S. Cinti F. Conato, Elementi Costruttivi, Bologna, ed. Pitagora 2013;
- C. Amerio, G. Canavesio, Materiali per l’edilizia, Torino, Società Editrice Internazionale, 2009;
- C. Amerio, G. Canavesio, Tecniche ed elementi costruttivi, Torino, Società Editrice Internazionale, 2009;
- Various authors, Issues of the Course of Materials and construction components.
Complementary texts are mentioned in the bibliography of Elementi Costruttivi, Pitagora, 2013.
