IET_Introducción a la Construcción
The course IET_Introducción a la Construcción (Introduction to Building) is a Design Building studio with more than 10 years old at the architecture faculty of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Its a 3rd semester bachellor course were an average of 50 students face for the first time on their careers the difficulties of a DBS. At the end of the semester they have to design a pavillion-like structure that comes as the result of several 1:1 scale tasks regarding structural stability and design optimization, were the studets work on groups of 5-6 and have to manage a budget of ca. 250 eur (pro group). That budget is for the tasks, and what remains is used to build the final structure.
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Technical Description
The academic team decides during the course of the lessons the results of those structures and define a final pavillion to be ensembled by all the students. In this case, the structure is a variation of a Zollinger Vault, where one end begins as a curve but in mid-air turns into a straight line. The students had to learn how to calculate the dimensions of the lamellas and how to modify their geometry in order to make the curve-line succession. The whole pavillion building process took only 3 days. This course was dictated by teachers Claudio Vásquez, Diego Arroyo and Miguel Delso