Steep roof design: a combination of history and geometry as part of an interdisciplinary education for architects
Authors:
- Robert A. Marcinkowski
Abstract
Described in this article are several of the author’s contributions to steep roof design, which is part of the Construction course taken by architecture students. The course is run by the Institute of Building Construction in the Faculty of Architecture at Cracow University of Technology (CUT), Kraków, Poland. This project demands new skills from students. At an early stage of their education, students are expected to make an important transformation in thinking, from flat 2D drawings to 3D spatial architectural objects. Steep roof design is considered difficult by students, because of the numerous relations between elements and the sophisticated shapes used in construction. At the same time, steep roofs are a part of Poland’s historical legacy from which the traditional technology takes, in Polish, its name. The sequence of tasks for students from easy to sophisticated is seen by the author as parallel to the historical evolution of roofs. Conclusions resulting from the article are informed by the author’s teaching experience. Examples of teaching materials and students’ works produced as part of this programme are presented in this article.
- Record ID
- CUT87da9e497bf048b2abf8ba5c916e2881
- Publication categories
- ; ;
- Author
- Journal series
- World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education, ISSN 1446-2257
- Issue year
- 2018
- Vol
- 16
- No
- 1
- Pages
- 23-28
- Other elements of collation
- fot.; rys.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 28; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 5; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 16, No. 1
- Conference
- 9th WIETE Annual Conference on Engineering and Technology Education, 2018, 19-02-2018 - 23-02-2018, Bangkok, Tajlandia
- Keywords in English
- integrity of education, shortcomings, counteraction
- URL
- http://www.wiete.com.au/journals/WTE&TE/Pages/TOC_V16N1.html Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 15
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT87da9e497bf048b2abf8ba5c916e2881/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT87da9e497bf048b2abf8ba5c916e2881
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