BUILDING TECHNOLOGY I
(BLD61403/ARC3514/ARC3512)
Assignment 1: Industrialised Building System
Assignment 1 is a group project which is related to the topics on Industrialised Building System (IBS) and Materials’ Embodied Energy. Each group is required to design simple apartment units using IBS construction system. The objective of this project is to expose and engage students in a critical and analytical study of the different IBS construction methods while at the same time becoming aware of the embodied energy consumed by the building materials. Accordingly a model shall be produced together with a video documentation of the assembly process of the model.
Assignment 2: Construction Solutions
Assignment 2 is aligned with the students’ current studio design project which aims to facilitate them in the technical studies of their design. Consists of two parts, the first part deals with the analysis and establishment of the structural and the envelope systems of the student’s design. This is to ensure that the design has logical and workable construction systems and at the same time encouraging students to include construction as part of the design and not just “tools” to build it. The second part is a continuation from the first where students need to show in the final presentation drawings of the project, evidences of the previous studies being implemented in the design. The main drawings for this part will be the detail sectional drawing of the design which is also one of the requirements of the design studio.
