Structural Integration in Practice: Constructing a Framework from the Experiences of Structural Engineers

Uihlein, Marci Smith

doi:10.1061/(asce)ei.1943-5541.0000224

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“…The contrasting pedagogical methods of the design studio and instructive structures courses may prevent the integration of ideals and values of structural engineering and architecture (Laffey, et al 2016). The incompatible pedagogies can also lead to poor development of structural insight, which can be defined as an understanding of principles of structural systems, and the application of those principles into the form-finding process (MacDonald, 2019;Uihlein, 2015). Therefore, a pedagogical approach to teaching structures that is adapted to architecture education is required to provide and increase a structural insight of architecture students.…”

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confidence: 99%

Experiential Learning of Structural Systems - Comparison of design-based and experiment-based pedagogies

Acican¹,

Luyten²

2022

eCAADe Proceedings

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This research aims to compare two experiential learning methods' effectiveness for (1) a deeper understanding of structural behaviour, and (2) skills to design architectural forms that are structurally informed. A course was planned to investigate the effect of the type and order of the two teaching units: (1) guided experiments on a parametric design model, and ( 2) parametric design of a tower and custom experiments using Grasshopper and Karamba. Results indicate that the group that started with the experiments learned to ask the relevant questions by experimenting with the appropriate parameters that helped them to find the structural principles and apply them during their design phase. The group that started with the design were lost in the structural concepts and in identifying the meaningful parameters to test for. However, after the experiment was completed, this group could make a knowledge transfer. Acquisition of structures knowledge may require the experience of multiple situations while the application of this knowledge may involve selecting the relevant structural experience with the architectural form-finding process. In the future, a proposed experiential learning method will be compared with an instructive learning approach of structural systems for architecture students.

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confidence: 99%