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Higher Technical University College of Architecture
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Grao en Estudos de Arquitectura
 Subjects
  Architectural Design 4
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
THEME 1 - PROJECT METHODOLOGY I - Conceptual and designing tools. Concept and Project

- Contemporary Projects Theory

- Methodological Tools. Drawing and Designing

- Launch Systems for the Architectural Design

- Form, Function and Symbolism
THEME 2 - ARCHITECTURE AND TERRITORY - Design and Architecture: Physical environment and Social context.

- Architecture as Landscape, Landscape as Architecture.

- Architectures without program, from the referential to the symbolism.

- The detached house. The private habitat

- The house: building, dwelling, thinking
THEME 3 - INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURAL REGULATIONS - Accessibility and safety of use

- Dimensions regulations and habitat, urban conditions and Civil Law

- Fire protection in buildings.

- Introduction to sustainability and energy efficiency.
EXERCISE 1 - Urban Analysis

- Draft of a symbolic, referential or useful element at an urban scale, with a non-relevant program.

- Development of certain building elements
EXERCISE 2 - Urban Analysis

- Draft of a family house, in a social, cultural or landscape context of relevance.

- Development (structural, construction and materials) of the physical materiality of the project.
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