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This course aims to increase students’ knowledge of materials. Students will be presented with the challenge of turning a concept into a reality based on the consideration of generic elements, thus introducing the requirements that generally determine any constructive experience within the field of horizontal structural enclosures: in this case, Roofing.
The aim is to encourage self-learning of construction with an emphasis on drawing as a tool for reflection and verification and as a means of learning how to read and assimilate construction terms.
Pre-course requirements
Basic knowledge of materials and structural surround systems. Students are also required to have a certain level of skill in freehand drawing and some ability to tackle construction detail at every scale. In this respect, the knowledge acquired in the first-year construction course (Introduction to Architectural Construction) is essential.
Objectives
To familiarize students with construction techniques in accordance with certain requirements, materials and techniques, it being understood that a construction system should always provide an effective solution to the main demands of the architectural project.
To approach the constructive vision from the design process, showing that all the elements produced respond to the mastery of certain systems, and getting students accustomed to questioning themselves about how things should be done.
To introduce students to an understanding of materials from the perspective of their behaviour and their respective unions: flat roofs, sloping roofs, landscaped roofs, cistern roofs, lightweight roofs (e.g. slats, textiles, natural materials, photovoltaic panels, etc.).
Competencies
14-T - Ability to conceive, calculate, design, integrate in buildings and urban complexes and execute enclosure systems, roofs and other structural work
17 - Ability to apply building and technical standards
18 - Ability to preserve the structure of buildings, foundations and civil works
19 - Ability to preserve finished works.
20 - Ability to evaluate works
21 - Ability to preserve structural works
24 - To acquire adequate knowledge of the mechanics of solids, continuous medium and soil as well as the plastic, elasticity and resistance properties of materials for structural works
25 - To acquire adequate knowledge of conventional building systems and their pathology
26 - To acquire adequate knowledge of physical and chemical characteristics, production processes, pathology and the use of construction materials
27 - To acquire adequate knowledge of industrialised building systems.
Learning outcomes
The student should be able to determine the most appropriate building material in each case to solve the roofing of a structure and, at the same time, be able to establish the most suitable type of construction.
Syllabus
Roofs: history, geometry, water and materials. Technology: engineering and tradition.
The resistant layer of a roof: the slab.
Lightweight roofing (pergolas): slats, tensile fabric, natural materials, etc.
Sloping roofs, flat roofs, landscaped roofs and cistern roofs.
Materials applied to roofs: aggregates, agglomerates, coupled roofing and membranes, studying their different movements and unions.
Specific manufacturers’ data sheets: thermal and acoustic insulation, waterproof sheets, landscaped and cistern roofing, etc.