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Landscape Construction

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The aim of this course is to provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills to define and illustrate the process and materials involved in finishing external architectural spaces. This includes external free-standing walls, fences, and barriers, as well as various external surface elements such as vehicular and pedestrian paving, steps, ramps, and outdoor structural elements like pergolas, bridges, and kiosks (domed or vaulted). Additionally, the course covers water elements such as pools, fountains, lakes, and channels, as well as planting elements like trees, palms, and shrubs.
  • Course Goals
  • Quality Education
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

Requirements

ARC151

Description

  • English Description

    This course provides the students with the knowledge of different architecture and landscape constructing materials and possibilities of their usages, added to the finishing materials. Students learn how to implement some simple combinations through models with different scales; they will also be able to pinpoint various hardscape, softscape and street furniture details.
  • Department
    Architecture Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (10) + tr.Major Assessment (45 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 0% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    100
  • Equivalent ECTS
    4
  • Essential books (text books)
  • - Construction Landscape, Materials, Techniques, Structural Components, Artrid Zimmermann (ED.) 2.Edition (2010)
  • - Architectural Building construction, Jaggard and Drury. (2013)
  • - Drawings and architectural details – Dr. Mohamed AbdAllah. Last edition. (2013)
  • - Encyclopedia of Civil Engineering and Architecture – Eng. Abd Ellatif Elbakary – First edition – (2000)
  • Periodicals, Web sites, … etc
  • - Sweets – McGraw Hill Construction - http://products.construction.com/ (2010)
  • - Handout content of the course prepared by the author of the course. (2020) - Minke, G. Building with Earth, Birkhaeuser, Germany.3rd. and revised Ed., 2012.