The course aims to provide the skills for know:
* the technical characteristics of building materials,construction
elements and systems and their evolution
* the rules of art and the rules for a correct practice of building,
* the relationships of consistency and clarity between use of
materials and their building process, between the design of the individual
pieces and their performance
* the role played by materials, elements and construction
processes in the design, construction, maintenance and management of
a building
* the critical tools suitable for setting up and running a design program in
terms of feasibility,
* the methodological tools for a correct construction of the sequence of
requirements that specify the program itself in the presence of certain
constraints,
* the operational tools for the definition of design solutions congruent to
the program and aimed at enhancing the solicitations coming from the
technology.
At the end of the course the student must be able to:
* read, break down and classify a building system, according to the UNI
legislation;
* distinguish the principles and the rules that relate the constructive
elements to the building system, with reference to their performances;
* to distinguish the characteristics of the building materials, with
reference to the processing and transformation processes in construction
elements;
* identify the typological and morphological connotations of the
construction elements according to the specific characteristics of the
materials that can be used and the relative manufactoring processes;
* know the cultural motivations and application areas of the discipline;
* know the operational practices that define the "rule of art".