Course overview
This course will develop students' understanding and integration of the structural, construction, core, servicing, transport systems, and legislative requirements for the design of multistorey buildings. Students will develop knowledge in multistorey building principles including introduction to typologies, structural, and construction systems and methodologies, façade and cladding systems, and the integration of architecture with structure and services, core, and vertical transport systems. Students will develop skills in the application of construction knowledge and legislative requirements informing the design and construction of multistorey buildings and their communication through construction drawings and detailing.
Course learning outcomes
- Identify, assess, and incorporate the appropriate regulatory standards, codes, and legislative requirements to the design of multistorey buildings
- Investigate and integrate appropriate structural and construction systems in built environments of medium scale and complexity
- Identify building core, services, and transport systems in multi-story buildings
- Apply knowledge of building core, services, and transport systems through their integration in the design of multistorey buildings
- Analyse, interpret, and prepare partial construction documentation for multistorey buildings to industry standard