Structural pocket guide for architecture students
This page is dedicated to the structural pocket guide we provide for students in the program ‘Engineering Sciences: Architecture’ at Ghent University. Its goal is to be used during design assignments, in a context where structural underpinning is not necessarily a primary focus.
The page contains the most recent versions of the document, aiming to make it useful for as much people interested as possible.
Along with the first version, a conference paper was published which allowed it to be discussed with the broad audience of the conference. The paper touches upon three topics; first is a literature review of recent practical guides for the design of structures. Secondly, some background on the format and content for the proposed pocket guide. The last section is a sample check of published rules of thumb to make preliminary estimations for the depth of structural members. The variety of such rules of thumb is very large, which asks for some thoughts when one wants to reproduce them.
Project Info
Research group: Architecture Culture and the Contemporary (ACC)
Start date: 11-02-2025
Researchers: Tilke Devriese