Lectures about "Urban and Road Engineering", dedicated to sixth semester of the English-speaking group, will be conducted in a way that activates students.

Lectures on Road Engineering cover a wide range of important issues related to the subject, starting from a discussion of the historical circumstances of the creation, development and domination of the contemporary conventional model, through identifying new approaches and standards, emphasizing the importance of universal design, discussing important issues regarding safety and the sense of security, to ways management of greenery, water in the road and traffic calming.

Lectures take the form of discussions on specific topics. Topics discussed may also be proposed by students, if appropriate for the lecture topics. Each student must give one presentation per semester. Each presentation is publicly discussed during lectures.

Purpose of the subject:
The aim of the lectures is to prepare students for professional understanding, discussion skills and design application of road engineering solutions. The educational result is to teach students to use correct terms and understand the relationship between specific needs, solutions used and achieved results.

Course of lectures:
Lectures last two hours, during which:
- in the first hour, a presentation on a selected topic related to the scope of the course is listened to - individual threads of the presentation are discussed together, which is intended to activate the group and highlight those threads that require special attention, discussion and ad hoc development;
- in the second hour, using the atmosphere of discussion and students' involvement, selected substantive issues are raised - students, together with the lecturer, interpret the substantive issues raised.

Selected topics:
- presentation, comparison and explanation of basic concepts;
- a brief historical outline of the creation and development of the modern street as a road dominated by vehicular traffic;
- review and explanation of the meaning of international, national and local documents;
- principles of universal design;
- different approaches to the design process;
- discussion of important components of engineering projects: lighting, greenery, water management, parking and parking;
- traffic management methods, such as traffic calming;
- relationships between development intensity and transport infrastructure;
- discussion of key principles, paradoxes and non-intuitive laws related to transport infrastructure.

The elective project II class is dedicated to daylight analysis within the built environment.

Course Urban Project IV (AI_MK_28/1)

SHAPING A NEW DISTRICT – WHITE RIVER (POL. BIAŁA RZEKA) IN THE CITY OF RUMIA

The subject of the exercises is to design the spatial layout of the new district in the area of ​​the so-called Small Tricity. The task of the group will be to develop initial design guidelines - layout and character of buildings, primar building parameters, service program. The planned construction of the new SKM (Fast City Train) Biała Rzeka stop is the pretext for the implementation of the task. The authorities of the Rumia and Reda municipalities want to use this opportunity to urbanize the areas around the new station. Additionally, an important task is to decide what the development of the existing shopping center in the neighbourhood will be like.

As part of the classes, it is necessary to analyze how the surroundings and the area itself are functioning now, think how to shape a sustainable living environment at the district level and implement these principles in the study project.

The project is implemented as a realistic exercise, based on cooperation with the Department of Architecture and Town Planning of the Municipal Office in Rumia. The lecturers will use their practical knowledge gained in the process of large urban districts design.

Objective of the course

The aim of the course is to introduce development proposals for the area of ​​the new district, to balance the development of the area and to indicate recommendations for the service of social and technical infrastructure. This requires:

  • conducting comprehensive analyzes for the design area, identifying the conditions of the location, its potential and problems, in particular in environmental, spatial and technical aspect,
  • defining the scope of transformations,
  • carrying out the diagnosis and basic design assumptions for a modern ecological district,
  • creating a concept of land development,
  • indicating elements of the required technical and social infrastructure,
  • indication of sample building quarters.