Valid for: 2023/24
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering, LTH
Decided by: PLED A
Date of Decision: 2023-03-28
Compulsory for: MARK1
Elective for: A4
Language of instruction: The course will be given in English
The aim of the course is to establish a common frame of concepts relating to structures, optimisation and architectural expressions, in the interaction between engineers and architects in the final part of their studies.
Further, the aim of the course is to show that structural mechanics concepts and architectural expressions are related by our way of understanding, one by a natural science organization, the other by intuitive understanding.
Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must
Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must
For architectural students:
For engineering students:
Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must
The course starts with a series of lectures and discussions about structural concepts and a general description of the relation between structural mechanics/engineering and architecture. Further, structural elements are discussed, as well as how these contribute to give different expressions and how the structural design concepts vary with the expression.
The course is organized as a project course where both architectural students and engineering students contribute with their own future field of expertise. The projects are defined so that spatial qualities meet structural challenges. The literature constitutes a foundation for discussion in seminars concerning the interfacing and negotiation of spatial expression and structural design.
Grading scale: UG - (U,G) - (Fail, Pass)
Assessment: Assessment of project work. In the final project, engineering and architectural students work together in close cooperation. The project is presented at a seminar. To pass, the student must have participated in 75% of the teaching activities and the presentation must consist of a qualitative discussion that leads to a project proposal.
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.
The number of participants is limited to: 36
Selection: Completed university credits within the program. Within programmes where the course is given as a mandatory or elective mandatory course students are guaranteed admission. There after priority is given to students enrolled in programmes that include the course in the curriculum.
The course overlaps following course/s: AFO280, VSMN15
Course coordinator: Maria Rasmussen, maria.rasmussen@hdm.lth.se
Further information: The course is linked in a mandatory way to the designing courses Advanced Architectonic Design II (AAHN06) and Spatial Experiment II (???). The course is given by the Divisions of Architecture and Structural Mechanics and assumes balance between the number of architect and engineering students. The course is arranged together with the course “Integrated Design; Structural Design – Architectural Design” (VSMN15).