Name of Department: Architecture

Course Title: Building Technology and Science I

Course Code: AR 151

Type of Course: mandatory

Level of Course: undergraduate (first cycle)

Semester: October-January

Year of Study: 4 hrs/wk; 1st year, 1st semester

ECTS Credits: 7

Pre-requisite: none

Co-requisite: none

Name of Lecturer: Zeynep Durmuş Arsan  E-mail zeynepdurmus@iyte.edu.tr

Objective of the course: This is an introductory course which aims at establishing basic terminology of building technology and science for first-year students of architecture and city planning. Students will acquire familiarity with visual, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional communication tools and acquire ability to utilise these communication tools in analysis of building components. In this context, the importance of construction drawing and presentation techniques in the process of building design will be elucidated. Besides these objectives, the course intends to introduce the concepts of building, construction, and structural systems to students’ general comprehension of the built environment.

Course Contents: The framework of the course is set on provision of skills and knowledge of architectural drawing techniques by means of learning architectural language by hand-drawing. In the first five weeks, the course will focus on basic construction drawing and presentation techniques including top view, plan, elevation, section, three dimensional drawings such as axonometric, isometric and oblique perspectives. In the subsequent nine weeks, it will concentrate more on subjects related to building construction in architecture such as building loads and basic stresses (compression, tension, bending, buckling, and shear), building regulations in Turkey and implications for site planning, and particular building components, i.e. foundations and walls.

Bibliography:
Ching, Francis D. K. and Adams, Cassandra. (2001). Building Construction Illustrated. New York: John Wiley    & Sons.
Ching, Frank. (1995). A Visual Dictionary of Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Evas, L. (1997). The New Complete Illustration Guide. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Hasol, Doğan. (1993). Mimarlık ve Yapı Terimleri Sözlüğü: Türkçe-İngilizce-Fransızca. Istanbul: Yem    Kitapevi.
Lasean, Paul. (1989). Graphic Thinking for Architects and Designers. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Mainstone, Rowland J. (1998). Developments in Structural Form. Oxford: Architectural Press.
Manual of Graphic Techniques: Medium and Methods, V: 1, 2, 3. (1980). New York: Butterworth Architecture.
McGarry, Richard. (1991). Scale Elements for Design Elevations. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
McKay, J. K. (1970). Building Construction, Volume I, Fifth Edition. Essex: Longman Scientific and Technical    Press.
Seely, Ivor H. (1994). Building Technology. London: MacMillan Press.
Wang, Thomas C. (1996). Plan and Section Drawing. Canada: John Wiley & Sons.
Wong, W. (1992). Principles Form and Design. New York: John Willey and Sons.

Teaching Methods: 2 hrs/wk lecture for 10 wks, 2 hrs/wk class work (drawing and model making) for 10 wks; 4 hrs/wk of project critique for 3 wks

Assessment Methods: Assignments: 47% (at least 10 assignments for class work and homework); written mid-term examination: 10% (8th week of the semester, 5 questions, 50 minutes); written final examination: 15% (10 questions, 90 minutes); final homework: 25% (3-week project submitted at the day of final examination); attendance: 3%. Examinations are held during the regular midterm- and final-examination periods of the academic calendar.