5th semester introduces you to traditional building materials and their use.

By meeting the objectives of this topic you will have gained knowledge and understanding of:

Cultural, architectonic qualities and characteristics of existing buildings materials plus their increasing significance today:
• Knowledge and use of traditional building materials.
• Incorporating traditional and new materials into the project, in harmony to the architecture, structure and materials of existing buildings.
• Perform registration and surveying of the existing materials use in the existing building, site and surroundings.
• Record information of hazardous materials used in the project building and surroundings.

By meeting the objectives of this topic you will be able to:

• Scrutinizing existing materials use in the building and building structure.
• Chose and incorporate the relevant materials necessary in the transformation of the building for the new use.

• Integration of traditional and new building materials and solutions, in the existing building in an architectural, harmonic and sustainability fashion.
• Conducting documented comparative property analysis of traditional and new building materials, and their solutions.
• Use sustainable principles, solutions and materials in the project.
• Different principals of internal insulation.