PUBLIC BUILDINGS' DESIGN

Lecturer: Dr Ada Kwiatkowska

Level: graduate program: II year Specialization: Architecture

Time: 15 weeks

Aims:

• the programme of the course refers to the problems of shaping the elementary public buildings in old-town or in suburban housing complexes

• the range of the design: the study of the existing urban complex, architectural design of the elementary town-services: schools, kindergarten, community, media- and sports- center

Outlines of lectures:

• Models and hierarchy of the network of town-services - Criteria of the programming and design of the town-services

• The location of elementary town-services in the housing complexes - Concentration and patterns of urban composition

• Functional-spatial models - Patterns of the spatial organization in the range of elementary town-services

• Psychological concepts of the human being and the spatial quality of the town-services

• Types of the buildings’ structure of the town-services and  the technical infrastructure

• The form of town-services’ objects in the aspect of symbolical meanings

• The form of town-services’ objects in the aspect of architectural styles - from the modernism to beyond-modernism

Community church  

Social care center  

Community center 

Kindergarten  

School and sport-center    

Community center

(photos by Ada Kwiatkowska)

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