Educational Innovation Project: ARCHITECT – Construction Site Visits
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5821/jida.2017.5284Abstract
Traditionally, construction education in architectural schools have always a lack of learning derived from visiting construction sites, depriving students of visualizing constructive system, its difficulties, risks, associated problems. This paper presents material and lessons learned from the ARCHITECT – CONSTRUCTION SITE VISITS educational innovation project, which seeks to generate a documentary base of didactic material consisting of videos of short duration (1 to 5 minutes) that effectively covers the lack of real site visits, and provide young architects the experiential experience equivalent, they will learn "to think" and "to learn" from the execution of building works. These videos are being recorded by teachers and professional collaborators, and have a threefold approach: descriptive videos of construction systems, videos of technical problems in works, and videos of real construction site visits.
