Prof. Maria Petra Clarke

Teaching Area: "Building Construction" - Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering

"This is the paradox of architecture: for although space is its first and highest goal, it is concerned hereafter with non-space, with the matter that borders space, which acts back on space both externally and internally." - Andreas Deplaze's building construction is the architect's tool to create the designed space and the imagined appearance. It remains inseparable in its interaction with the essence of the design.

The modules serve to teach building construction principles and techniques for joining essential components of a simple building structure.
                                                                                
In the first semester, the emphasis is on teaching properties and joining techniques in masonry construction.
In parallel, the fundamentals of thermal insulation, moisture protection and the common types of calculations and regulations are learned.

In the second semester, the focus is on the principles, properties and simple joining in skeleton construction (emphasis on timber construction). The structural and physical principles for the joining of load-bearing structures and shells are studied, as well as the interaction between building materials, their physical properties (including sound insulation and fire protection) and their suitable construction methods.

Consulting hours

In the lecture-free period by appointment (e-mail).

Lectures

Study Programs Building Construction/Building Physics

• Building Construction and Building Physics 1 - Fundamentals
• Building construction and building physics 2 - basics
• Project module 2 - complex masonry construction

Study programs Interdisciplinary Design

• Interdisciplinary design - between architecture and civil engineering students / English
• Transdisciplinary work (STARS EU) - between several European universities / English

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Research

Important research projects of the last years

• Wilhelm Gentz Elementary School, Neuruppin Reconstruction and extension of an existing school with reinforced concrete skeleton and timber frame construction 2018-2022, recognition German Timber Construction Award 2023, First Prize Holzbauplus 2023
• Ilsestrasse, Berlin residential building in timber construction 2023
• Quartier Heidestrasse, Berlin Housing, hotel, commercial and daycare center 2017-2022
• Office building for the cemetery association, Berlin Administrative building in reinforced concrete skeleton and timber frame construction 2020