Structural Design - Skeleton Construction

44B0613

Bachelor

German

5.0

only winter term

once a year

1 semester

The structural design and the further detailing of a construction are elementary components within the framework of the overall design of a planning task in landscape architecture. This module focuses on the building materials wood and wood-based materials as well as metals with their properties and their use for sustainable and durable skeleton structures in open spaces. Students will be able to grasp structural engineering relationships, represent them in drawings and justify them.

The module includes two closely related units:

Unit A - Building Materials and Structures

1 Legal foundations, building codes, technical building regulations

2 Building material wood and wood-based materials

2.1 Solid wood
2.2 Bonded solid wood products
2.3 Wood-based materials
2.4 Alternative wood products

3 Wooden structures

3.1 Service life, durability, wood preservation measures
3.2 Nodes and timber connectors
3.3 Pergolas
3.4 Screen constructions
3.5 Carports
3.6 Shelters
3.7 Terraces
3.8 pedestrian bridges

4. metal as a building material

4.1 Steel and steel production
4.2 Aluminum
4.3 Copper
4.4 Other alloys

5 Metal structures

5.1 Corrosion protection measures
5.2 Nodes and fasteners (connection elements)
5.3 Carports
5.4 Shelters
5.5 pedestrian bridges

6 Glass as a building material and its use in skeleton structures

Unit B - Construction Task

After completing Unit A, students solve a more complex design task (LP 5 + 6) as group work. This planning task combines the contents of Unit A and is linked to the module on awarding and contracting. The students create a performance specification with bill of quantities for the planning task.

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Homework / Assignment and Written examination

Standard examination performance: Term paper (30 %) + three-hour exam (70 %)

Written exam: 180 minutes

Term paper: Construction drawings (general plan, floor plan, section, detail)

Basic knowledge of massive building structures in open space and the preparation of construction drawings with the help of CAD

Students who have successfully studied this module will have a basic knowledge of the building materials wood, metal and glass, their properties and their use in the constructions of the open space, as well as the regulations that apply to them.

Students who have successfully studied this module will be able to combine the building materials described, develop sustainable and durable constructions from them, describe their construction principles and assess the advantages and disadvantages from a design point of view.

Students who have successfully studied this module will be able to design skeletal structures in open space, create structural drawings using CAD and represent detailed solutions. They can interpret these constructions and check their feasibility.

Students who have successfully studied this module will be able to analyze third-party planning documents and use them for their own work assignment as a continuing planner, object supervisor, construction manager, etc. and enter into constructive exchange with those involved in planning. They can prepare award documents for their technical planning.

Students who have successfully studied this module will be able to evaluate innovative changes in the building materials market and generate new approaches to sustainable construction, modular building techniques and digitized work processes based on their sound fundamentals in the field of building materials and the creation of skeletal structures.

Students who have successfully studied this module review their own and external design tasks in a goal-oriented manner, recognize the planning approaches and diagnose or evaluate design problems. Due to their acquired professional competence, they are able to enter into a factual and professional exchange with clients, architects and landscape architects as well as other specialist engineers within the framework of the planning process.

Students who have successfully studied this module apply the skills they have acquired in the context of their construction site control, construction site management or construction site supervision. They independently carry out construction tasks from civil engineering design to implementation planning, in a gardening and landscaping company or planning office.

The module is the basis for the structural engineering module.

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• Hornoff, Elke

• Hornoff, Elke
• Breulmann, Kai