Table of contents

The course is connected to the following study programs

Teaching language

Norwegian

Recommended previous knowledge

BYG126 Technical Design, BYG223 Architecture, BYG224 Road Planning or simillar

Learning outcomes

  • Understands the implications of the subject in relation to other subjects within civil Engineering.
  • Has basic knowledge of the process that leads up to an area plan.
  • Has knowledge about how the “structuring of green spaces”, “structuring of buildings”, and infrastructure interacts in good area plans.
  • Has sufficient knowledge about relevant social mechanisms to plan a well functioning neighborhood.
  • Has basic knowledge about the individual parts of a norwegian area-plan : “the plan-map”, “the planning-rules” and “the plan-description”.
  • Is able to design area-plans by means of physical- and digital modelling as well as drawing.
  • Has basic understanding of how to draw a “plan-map” in a suitable computer software solution.

Contents

The subject provides a basic understanding of the production as well as the interplay between the parts in the process that leads ends up in an approvable area-plan, including the “regulatory rules” and digital tools. The focus is on projects that are easily grasped by the students yet provide the opportunity to work with all the elements of a more complex area-plan process

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures, field trips and projects

Examination requirements

All mandatory group projects have to be approved.

Examinations

Individual project. Individual grades

Student evaluation

The person responsible for the course decides, in cooperation with student representative, the form of student evaluation and whether the course is to have a midway or end of course evaluation in accordance with the quality system for education, chapter 4.1.”

Offered as a free-standing course

Yes. Subject to availability or capacity.

Admission Requirement if given as a free-standing course

Higher Education Entrance Qualification including mathematics R1 and R2 and physics 1, or a pass in the preliminary course examination for engineers (which is also offered at University of Agder).

Reduction of Credits

This course’s contents overlap with the following courses. A reduction of credits will occur if one of these courses is taken in addition:

Course Reduction of Credits
BYG214 – Urban & Road Engineering. 6
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