6.00 Credits. 9 Hrs/Wk

Development of awareness and perception of fundamentals of architecture: scale, proportion and space, The emphasis is on understanding man-space relationship, activity-space relationship and form-space relationship.

1.5 Credits., 3 Hrs/Wk

Complex perspective drawings. Presentation techniques in various media. Use of tools and materials in presentation with colour pencil, pastel, water colour-wash and gouach, ink, charcoal, airbrush and marker.

1.50 Credits. 3 Hrs/Wk

Computer graphics and its basics. 2-D and 3-D graphics with the help of computers. To understand and to use graphic software in architectural presentation and design.

2.00 Credits. 2 Hrs/Wk

Visual: The environment, physical nature of the lighting environment, human responses to environmental vision factors. Daylight in architecture, prediction tools and techniques of supplementary and artificial lighting, designing for daylight in the tropics. Sonic: The concepts and problems related to architectural acoustics; properties of sound; the fundamentals of sound perception, generation and propagation; behaviour of sound in enclosed spaces. Principles of acoustic design of rooms for speech. music and multi-purpose use. The concept of noise and noise and control; criteria for noise control design and acoustical measurements.

2.00 Credits. 2 Hrs/Wk

Origin and evolution of settlements and cities. City planning during ancient, classical medieval, neo-classical and modern periods. Industrial revolution and changes in the character of cities. New thoughts and ideas in planning after the industrialrevolution. The spatial structure of cities: concentric zone theory , sector theory, multiple nuclei theory, Christaller theory of size, spacing and distribution of central places. Rank-size rule.

2.00 Credits. 2 Hrs/Wk

Types of structures and their methods and techniques of construction. Foundation, floor, wall and roof systems. Use of different types of modules. Moisture and thermal protection of floor, wall and roof . Doors and windows. Details of kitchen, bathroom and stair. Elevators and escalators.

2.00 Credits. 2 Hrs/Wk

Force; equilibrium, free body diagrams; resultants and Components; coplanar Concurrent forces; moments and parallel coplanar forces; centroid; moment of Inertia of areas; Maximum and minimum forces; friction; flexible chord; calculation of bar forces for simple trusses.

2.00 Credits. 2 Hrs/ Wk

Definitions, types, preparation, manufacture, properties, uses, and applications of stone, metal, reconstructed wood, plastic and rubber. Modular co-ordination . Prefabrication Techniques of building components. Construction techniques of special forms: dome, vault, shell, space frame and metal structure. Techniques of construction with indigenous materials.

2.00 Credits. 2 Hrs/Wk

English phonetics: the places and manners of articulation of the English sounds. Vocabulary. English grammar: construction of sentences; some grammatical problems. Comprehension. Composition on current affairs. Precise writing. Report writing. Commercial correspondence and tender documents. Short stories by classic writers.

2.00 Credits. 2 Hrs/Wk

Definition of economics. Economics and engineering. Principles of Economics: Micro economics: The theory of demand and supply and their elasticity. Price determination. Nature of an economic theory, applicability of economic theories to the problems of developing countries. Indifference curve technique, Marginal analysis. Optimization. Market, production, production function, types of productivity, Rational region of production of an engineering firm. The short run and the long run. Fixed cost and variable cost. Internal and external economics and diseconomics. Macro economics: Savings, investment. National income analysis. Inflation. Monetary policy, fiscal policy and trade policy with reference to Bangladesh. Planning in Bangladesh.