Course syllabus

Kulturhistoriska byggnader
Cultural Heritage Buildings

ABVN16, 15 credits, A (Second Cycle)

Valid for: 2020/21
Decided by: PLED A
Date of Decision: 2020-03-26

General Information

Elective Compulsory for: MARK2-aad
Elective for: A4
Language of instruction: The course will be given in English on demand

Aim

The aim of the course is that each student shall acquire competence in rebuilding and/or adding to buildings, or in building new ones, in an already existing, sensitive built-up area. He or she shall also be able to discuss and analyze qualities in renewal; to become competent in preserving and renewing a culture-historical built-up area; and in planning.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

An architect’s restoration work requires careful preliminary study and great detail in planning, and in its designs it should avoid superficial trends and tendencies.

Contents

The course addresses buildings of culture-historic value. The course gives knowledge and understanding of, and training in, design having to do with encounters between new and old architecture. The course also focuses on the function, design, material, administration and renewal of buildings. It gives training in how to adapt buildings to contemporary requirements for functions, technical equipment, design and access by physically-handicapped persons. It also examines relevant Swedish legislation, and Swedish demands for care in rebuilding, as well as rebuilding processes.

The course includes: preliminary investigations; modern methods of surveying and estimating damage; capacity analysis and culture-historical evaluation; sketches and reference studies; impact analyses and proposals for remedies; descriptions of buildings, detailed drawings; sample of colours and materials; presentations using modern methods of projection; current Swedish legislation on changes to existing buildings; and international codes and organization.

Examination details

Grading scale: UG - (U,G) - (Fail, Pass)
Assessment: During the course, constant reference is made to individuals’ levels of knowledge: each gives a preliminary account of his or her work-in-process on a project that is assessed. At the end of the course, each gives in words, drawings and images a final account of this project that the other students assess critically. Successfully to complete the course, a student must attend not less than eighty per cent of the lectures and study visits; actively take part in drawing-office instruction, and preliminary and final assessments; and gain approval for his or her project.

The examiner, in consultation with Disability Support Services, may deviate from the regular form of examination in order to provide a permanently disabled student with a form of examination equivalent to that of a student without a disability.

Admission

Admission requirements:

The number of participants is limited to: No
The course might be cancelled: If the number of applicants is less than 12.
The course overlaps following course/s: ABVN15

Reading list

Contact and other information

Course coordinator: Ingela Pålsson Skarin, ingela.palsson_skarin@byggark.lth.se
Further information: To this course is associated the deepening and compulsory course "Cultural Heritage Buildings, -theory" 6hp.