Active Week

Every term has its active period, which means students and professors meet at Dessau for about a week to work together.

 

The next new course starts in March 2014! The first active period will take place from 03.03.2013 to 15.03.2014 - two lecture weeks.

 

During the first active period two lecture weeks takes place at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau-Rosslau, Germany.

 

The first week of the first active period the students will learn the basics about membrane structures, structural engineering and membrane software. It is an introduction into the topic and it is intended to bring all students up to the same level of knowledge. The second week of the first active period is the actual lecture week. Below mentioned there is a course plan of the whole study.

 

In the second and third semester one lecture week will take place at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau-Rosslau, Germany.

 

During the active periods the students will hear lectures and have seminars in several modules. After the active period they have to prepare projects in teamwork or individual work and make the presentation in the beginning of the following active week.


Modules:

Semester 1

Modules

90 minutes lectures

Credits

(ECTS)

Attendance

Time

Home

seminar

IM 1

Basics on Membrane

Structures

9

-

-

IM 2

Basics on Software

9

-

-

IM 3

Basics on Structural

Engineering

9

-

-

MM 1

Architecture

9

14

4

MM 2

Numerical Theory

9

14

4

MM 3

Membrane Programs

9

14

4

Optional Module

Visualization / Bionics and

Experimental Structures

9

14

4

total

 

 

16

 

Semester 2

Modules

90 minutes lectures

Credits

(ECTS)

Attendance

Time

Home

seminar

MM 4

Structural Design and Detail

9

14

4

MM 5

Mechanical and Physical

Properties

9

14

4

MM 6

Dimensioning

9

14

4

Optional Module

Pneumatic Structures /

Foldable and Umbrellas

9

14

4

total

 

 

16

 

Semester 3

Modules

90 minutes lectures

Credits

(ECTS)

Attendance

Time

Home

seminar

MM 7

Building Physics

9

14

4

MM 8

Internship Theory –

Fabrication and Project

Management

9

Internship

5

Optional Module

Studio Detailing and

Patterning /

Membrane Surveying

9

14

4

total

 

 

13

 

Semester 4

Modules

Attendance

Time

Home

seminar

Credits

(ECTS)

Master Thesis and

Colloquium

 

Master Thesis

12

 

Colloquium

 

 3

total

 

 

15

 

 

Changes of the program and its lectures are still possible.