Introduction to Architectural Design for Engineers

Through collaboration with students of architecture in architectural design in design studios, the course gives students of engineering an introduction to collaboration between architects and engineers in explicit architectural design.

GENERAL COMPETENCE: The course will give students of engineering insight in basic issues of architectural design as well as how their own field of engineering can be included in this.

KNOWLEDGE: After completing the course, the students will have practice-based knowledge about basic aspects of architectural design and about relationships between architecture and their own field of engineering regarding both concepts/overall-ideas and collaborations in explicit architectural design.

SKILLS: Based on their own scholarly background, students of engineering should be able to participate actively in building-design / architectural-design together with architects. The course should also provide an improved background for working with design-concepts and explicit design within their own field of engineering.

The teaching is integrated with design studio class(es) at NTNU's architecture program where the task typically is one architectural design project that runs throughout the entire semester.

As usual, in architectural design studios, the teaching consists in seminars, lectures, and supervisions in studios, paying particular attention to presentations/reviews during the semester and at the end of semester. The engineering students will have their own work station in the design studio together with the architecture students.

This course is 7,5 study points as opposed to the typical architecture project course which is 15 study points. Therefore, the working load as well as the deliverables will be somewhat different. The student of engineering will spend a little less time in the studio, particularly at the end of semester.