University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG)

The Diploma Project is presented in public before a State Board of Examiners. The general requirements for presentation include demonstration of good knowledge on the contemporary urban trends, logical structuring and a convincing justification of the solution offered. The specific requirements are: (a) in case of practical/applied development – clear and original concept for development of the territory considered; well-grounded opportunities for concept realisation; (b) in case of ...

The prevailing types of public buildings – historic development, modern trends and principal norms, are presented.

A fragment of Pre-diploma project І (PUBSP1) is developed in a preliminary design phase.

A typical and complex public building – a hall for visual demonstration or a sports hall is designed. The functional and technological aspects of the corresponding type of building are examined in detail.

Types of buildings, which give opportunity to students to operate with ideas, interpreted in architectural form at a maximum freedom of opinions and preferences, are designed.

The foundations of the design of buildings, justified from a functional, town planning and compositional point of view, are presented with the help of a small public building.

The variety of types, decisions and approaches to the design of typical public buildings is presented.

Students are introduced to the designed in the corresponding semester types of buildings. Their knowledge about the peculiarities and versatility of public buildings is extended. The course is presented by lecturers, having an opinion on the elucidating of the function, on the performance and the use of the buildings. The second part of the course emphasises on “philosophy”, symbolic, and other conceptual problems and problems of the creative process.