Ipartanszék

We will apply this knowledge in an architectural design project. The students will design an open-air theatre in Budapest (close to the University on ‘Kopaszi’ dam) with emphasis on the interplay between attractive form, functional values and efficient structural behaviour.

Progress throughout the semester
The course will be held in a workshop style. Students’ work will be accompanied by consultants of both departments. Students will have to complete their tasks in groups of 2-3 students.

Thus in the beginning of the course students will get familiar with the tasks and the site in form of presentations and site visits. They also get acquainted with examples, possible structural systems, technologies and possible solutions.

The development/progress of their projects will be presented by the students in form of three open presentations during the seminars. These presentations will be immediately evaluated by the consultants who will discuss the work in public. As the design process goes on students have to document related inspiring buildings, conceptual layout of the environment of the building and its interior and detailed plans of the building with emphasis on the applied structural systems and their geometry.

The seminars not only provide space to collective consultations and presentations but also contain the consultant’s phase-specific presentations which shall improve the development of the work.

The classroom K 222 is available for the students all day on Monday and Wednesday. Note that the door is not locked and other students use the class room on other days. Please arrive no later than at is in the schedule. You will listen to each other’s presentations on every Wednesday. Monday is for consultations, lectures and workshops.

Four main phases form the basic structure of the course:
Analysis – discovering the characteristics of the site: history, layers, development plans, etc. Each group will get a specific topic and will prepare a short presentation.
Architectural program: sketch of suggested new functions of the whole area, and detailed program for the building.
Architectural plans – architectural behaviour, interpreting the context: building and landscape design. A full documentation of an architectural intervention will be developed in scale 1:200 or 1:100.
Structural plans – the loadbearing structures will be developed without performing detailed calculations. Nevertheless, approximate dimensions will be determined through simple calculations, and the geometric arrangements of structural elements will be designed carefully in scale 1:200 or 1:100.

Participants
The course Project Design is run by two departments: the Department of Mechanics, Materials and Structures and the Department of Industrial and Agricultural Building Design. Students’ work will be accompanied by consultants of both departments.