Design Project Building Construction
Informationen Design Project 2024/2025
Registration for the Design Project in WS 2024/2025 with a message to Julian Lukas by e-mail possible.
The following information is required for registration: Name, matriculation number, specialisation in Master, desired specialisation (Timber Structures or Building Construction).
The design project addresses students from the faculties of architecture and civil engineering. It promotes the integrated work of the closely connected disciplines. The structural design is carried out in form of an annually changing design task which is tackled by teams of two or three students from different disciplines. Each student brings his specific knowledge into the design process to collectively develop a detailed project from the beginning. The groups will be supervised by lecturers from both chairs involved. Experts are available to give support in the specialist areas structure, fire safety and energy-efficiency.
The design is usally subdivided into three phases:
- Conceptual design stage: Presentation of alternative solutions, advantages and disadvantages
- Planning and dimensioning (planning for submission): Detailed graphical and numerical design of the chosen solution, presentation of construction layers of regular details
- Detailing and execution planning: revision of solution, detailing of joints
A one-day excursion is planned to foster the formation of groups and to visit exemplary buildings.
Insight Design Project 2024/2025
As part of an interdisciplinary design offered by the Chair of Architecture and Timber Construction
and the Chair of Timber Construction and Building Construction, a building system is to be developed
that is suitable for both kindergartens and primary schools. This building system serves as a template
for sustainable replacement buildings/temporary buildings for the time the destroyed educational
institutions are rebuilt. To ensure quick and easy assembly, the necessary components and modules
are manufactured abroad. The individual parts of the building system are then delivered to Ukraine
by container. On-site, the building system is assembled with the involvement of the Ukrainian
population. It is designed to be so simple that even non-specialists, such as the local population or
the military, can help with the assembly. Additionally, care is taken to use resources available in
Ukraine. This ensures that the building system can be reproduced in the future without supplies from
abroad. Once the destroyed educational institution is rebuilt, the replacement/temporary building can
be completely dismantled and reused at another location. Accordingly, the building system is to be
developed in such a way that the dismantling of the individual components and modules is
guaranteed.
Further information:
Learning Outcomes
The students learn
- The design, planning and structural detailing of buildings and structures when having to integrate diverging demands and specifications from different disciplines.
- To develop planning concepts, to bring out promising alternatives on the basis of plausibility considerations and finally to develop one design concept within an ongoing process up to the stage of execution
- To present their results precisely and clear with the aid of typical presentation formats (talk, plans, written records and models).
Information
Coordination: Christoph Kurzer M.Sc., Nils Schoofs M.Sc., Dr.-Ing. Thomas Engel
Group Support: Tuesday, 8:00 - 13:00, 60 Minutes each group, Room 4157
Open consultation hours: Tuesday, 13:00, Room 3149
Consultation hours: by arrangement
Semesterinformation: Introduction Desing Project WS 2024/25
Other: For the design project a prior written registration with the supervisors is required. Urgently recommended prerequisites for the design project are the following subjects: Principles in Building Constructio and Basics of Fire Protection.