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Higher Technical University College of Architecture
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Grao en Arquitectura
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  Construción 3
   Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Guest lecture / keynote speech Lectures where several building systems (historical setting, typologies, materials, rules, conception, design, safety, measurements and estimate, prescription, preservation, pathologies and repair) are explained from performance required and in accordance with the architectural project.
Reference documentation and examples of buildings will be provided in order to learn from the mistakes and the decisions. An intelligent knowledge is sought instead of rote learning.
The student must pass an objective test and several multiple-choice questions.
Specific competences: A2, A3, A8, A11, A28, A32, A47, A58, A59 and A64.
Workshop The workshop is a workspace where students develop their architectural projects, applying the skills learnt during lectures. They will learn the relationship between the compositional processes of architecture and its construction.
Several subjects merge around the idea of architecture, ensuring optimization of teaching resources and streamlining the student's work.
The workshop aims to establish mechanisms for coordination and mainstreaming across studies, avoiding duplication and repetition in the content to facilitate an effective transit between semesters.
Different projects will be developed mandatory.
Specific competences: A2, A3, A8, A11, A28, A32, A47, A58, A59 and A64.
Case study The professors will show architectural projects of outstanding quality in order to serve as a model to develop the students' projects during the workshop. The projects will be shown to teach the relationship between the compositional processes of architecture and its construction. It will be assessed within the workshop.
Specific competences: A2, A8, A11, A28, A47 and A59.
Objective test The objective tests seek to verify the application of knowledge and the skills acquired by students.
They have documentary support of books and own notes based on a practical case.
Specific competences: A8, A11, A28, A58 and A59.
Workbook Specific readings support the lectures. These readings serve to introduce the topic, helping the students understand technical texts. It will be assessed within the objective test.
Specific competences: A8, A28, A47, A58 y A59.
Multiple-choice questions In order to promote learning and continuous assessment, students must complete four mandatory testing of different topics. These tests are carried out within the distance learning platform UDC Moodle.
Specific competences: A28, A58 and A59.
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