NPTEL - Structure, Form, and Architecture: The Synergy
offered by IIT Roorkee

Public/Government Institute
Estd. 1847

Structure, Form, and Architecture: The Synergy
at
IIT Roorkee
Overview

Boost your career by developing the skills use in Connecting Structure and Architecture

Duration	8 weeks
Mode of learning	Online
Credential	Certificate

Structure, Form, and Architecture: The Synergy
at
IIT Roorkee
Highlights

Earn a E- certificate of completion from IIT Roorkee

Structure, Form, and Architecture: The Synergy
at
IIT Roorkee
Course details

Who should do this course?

For the students pursuing B.Arch, M.Arch and B.Tech/BE Civil Engineering

More about this course

Starting from the Stonehenge to the creation of the world?s tallest tower in recent times, structure and its designed form presented an excellent Architecture to experience, appreciate and also to fulfill the functions for which they are created
The present course has an extreme importance to create interest among the students, architects and engineers as well to learn the relationship between Structure, Form, and Architecture to make a synergy between them and make the space creation structurally strong, stable, functionally optimized and aesthetically pleasant Architecture
The course will highlight the relationship between structure, form and architecture, basic of structural forms, their properties, material used, pros and cons to make upon a decision to select the appropriate form for the architectural design consideration
The course also includes suitable case studies from various parts of the world along with a few demonstrations with study model experiments which may help participants/students to clear their doubts and help them in designing the assignments with a better grip

Structure, Form, and Architecture: The Synergy
at
IIT Roorkee
Curriculum

Week 1

Introduction to Structure

Form, and Architecture

Relationship of Structure to Architectural Buildings

Loads on a Structure

Synthesis of Architectural and Structural Forms

Week 2

Connecting Structure and Architecture

Structural Transformation in Architectural History

Factors affecting Structural Forms

Learning from Animal Architecture

Week 3

Basic Structural Properties

Structural Requirements

Structural Arrangements

Structural Forms and Shapes

Structural Materials

Week 4

Structural Typology

Compressive Structures

Tensile Structures

Load Bearing Structure

Temporary Structure

Week 5

Framed Structures

Arch Structures

Vault Structures

Dome Structures

Grid Structures

Week 6

Shell Structures

Truss and Space Frames

Folded Plate Structures

Membrane Structures

Pneumatic Structures

Week 7

Structure and Architectural Forms in Windy areas

Seismic prone areas and Flood prone areas

Cost Effective Structure and Architecture

Structure and Light in Architecture

Week 8

Evaluation of Highrise

Structural System

Highrise Structural Components

Mega Structures and Architecture- Case Studies

Architecture-The Past, Present and Future

Structure, Form, and Architecture: The Synergy
at
IIT Roorkee
Faculty details

Prof. Shubhajit Sadhukhan

Dr. Shubhajit Sadhukhan is presently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture & Planning at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Earlier he served National Institute of Technology Patna for four and half years as Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture. Dr. Sadhukhan received his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2017.