Valentin Kunik is appointed as a lecturer at HEPIA Geneva. He will teach the course “Architecture and Construction”, an elective course open to all students who wish to diversify their knowledge of construction. Construction will be treated as a project vector and/or as a project tool in connection with the other JMA courses.
Contemporary issues related to construction are numerous and complex. Whether it is a question of sourcing materials, assembling them correctly, or thinking about their life cycle, we see that the act of building is part of the material culture. This material culture is linked to our time, our society and our state of technical progress. We will begin by studying the history of building methods over time and then develop pragmatic constructive responses in relation to the issues of our time (sustainable development, resource crisis, densification, welcoming the living, etc.)
Through study and documentary research, the learner will discover different ways of building and will learn to put into practice various constructions. This course will also allow the learner to learn how to identify and use the right metrics related to construction in order to best meet the challenges of sustainable development. The learner will then develop his or her approach to resources and the various relative construction methods.

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