Search result: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2025
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| 102-0214-02L | Introduction to Urban Water Management | W | 6 credits | 4G | E. Morgenroth, M. Maurer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | Introduction to urban water management (water supply, urban drainage, wastewater treatment, sewage sluge treatment) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | This course provides an introduction and an overview over the topics of urban water management (water supply, urban drainage, wastewater treatment, sewage sludge treatment). It supports the understanding of the interactions of the relevant technical and natural systems. Simple models for the design are introduced. The competencies of process understanding, system understanding, modeling, concept development and data analysis & interpretation are taught, applied and examined. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | Overview over the field of urban water management. Introduction into systems analysis. Characterization of water and water quality. Requirement of drinking water, production of wastewater and pollutants Production and supply of drinking water. Urban drainage, treatment of combined sewer overflow. Wastewater treatment, nutrient elimination, sludge handling. Planning of urban water infrastructure. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | Gujer, W.: Siedlungswasserwirtschaft, 3. Aufl., Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007 Handouts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | This course is required for further in depth courses in urban water management. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 101-0428-10L | Road infrastructure | W | 3 credits | 2G | P. Eberling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | Structure, organization and functioning of the Swiss road network. Planning and design of the associated road infrastructure for all road users, taking into account traffic law, standards and road safety. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | You will understand the categorisation of the road network into road types and junction types. You will know the contents of the relevant standards for planning and designing adequate road infrastructure, taking traffic law and road safety into account. You will be able to plan a road outside and inside built-up areas so that it is usable and safe for the various road users. To this end, you will be familiar with the numerous possible road infrastructures and be able to use them appropriately. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | The following content is taught in the ‘Road infrastructure’ lecture: The organisation of the road, traffic volumes, road types and junction types, speed, geometric normal profile GNP, alignment, projecting junctions, model 30/50 and meeting zones, facilities for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, traffic calming elements, colour design of road surfaces FGSO, multi-purpose lanes and road space design | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | Lecture slides handout Bau Praxis, Verkehrswegbau - Die Projektierung Publisher: Fach Wissen Bau, Volume 1 and 2 Online: Specialised documentation of the BFU | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | Bau Praxis, Verkehrswegbau - Die Projektierung Publisher: Fach Wissen Bau, Volume 1 and 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 052-0710-00L | Perspectives on Landscape and Urban Transformation II | W | 2 credits | 2V | F. Persyn, L. Fink, C. Schaeben | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | This is the second semester of the course Perspectives on Landscape and Urban Transformation. We will collectively explore the different roles and professional practices that represent and collectively shape our environment. The course is collectively organized by the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS), with the NEWROPE chair taking up the coordination. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | Through the different Perspectives on Landscape and Urban Transformation, students will learn to understand the complexity of the (urban) landscape. The various perspectives, readings and key terms will enrich and expand the vocabulary and theoretical knowledge of students. Tools for observation and activation will give students agency to observe and intervene in processes of urban transformation. At the end of the course students will be able to perceive and identify a multitude of actors and professional roles and recognize how they are overlapping, entangled and ever-shifting. Students will practice to textually and visually illustrate complex processes, including the many different stakeholders involved and the notion of time. Students will learn to reflect about and formulate their possible personal positions in relation to others. The formulated learning goals are aligned with the teaching activities, the exercises, and the final evaluation. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | The course is titled Perspectives on Landscape and Urban Transformation I+II. By bringing forward the term ‘landscape’ the course stresses the need to put the natural environment and the landscape at the core of urban thinking. Accordingly, every architect requires a basic knowledge of the landscape and nature. Also, to focus on ‘urban transformation’, instead of ‘urban design’ is a conscious choice. It comes out of the recognition that materials, energy and space are finite, which forces us to engage first with what is already there, instead of producing even more new things. This course presents designers as facilitators of complex urban transformation processes. This position requires both an understanding of a great diversity of perspectives and positions constituting a city, and of the different professional roles one can take up to detect and utilize this diversity of – specific and often conflicting – needs, wishes, ambitions and actions. In each lecture one of these perspectives is presented. The list of different perspectives presented in both semesters is deliberately left incomplete, leaving space for students to think of other perspectives, needs and desires that one could take into account when working on a design or (redevelopment) of a space. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | Students will be provided with a reader at the first lecture. The reader for the course Perspectives on Landscape and Urban Transformation I+II is a container which holds together a collection of different hand-outs, brochures, and materials. All in all, it is a ‘bag’ and a personal organizer which invites students to fill over the course of the year. It allows them to individually structure and curate the content of the course. It is deliberately designed to be open-ended and to be individually extended and adapted. Towards the end of the semester, students will get a glossary where all key terms and concepts, presented in the various lectures, are combined. Each week students will receive a small leaflet that gives an overview of the individual lecture, as well as an additional reading. All documents can be downloaded via moodle. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | Wöchentliches Handout von Lektüren. Alle Dokumente können über moodle heruntergeladen werden. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | The course takes place at the Fokushalle, E7, ONA Building from 18:00h-19:30h. The course will be under the formal responsibility of Prof. Freek Persyn and collectively coordinated by a core team consisting of Freek Persyn , Michiel van Iersel, Lukas Fink and Charlotte Schaeben. Students can contact: Charlotte (schaeben@arch.ethz.ch) for organisational, technical and personal questions Lukas (fink@arch.ethz.ch) for questions regarding the reader, weekly exercises and the final exam Michiel (mvaniersel@arch.ethz.ch) for questions regarding guests and literature | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 101-0419-01L | Railway Infrastructures 1 | W | 2 credits | 2G | U. A. Weidmann, D. Trachsel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | Introduction in rail infrastructures, interoperability and technical standards, network development, infrastructure planning, design of rail infrastructures, geometric design, planning and design of railway stations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | Teaches the basic principles of railway infrastructures, of network and infrastructure design as well as geometric design. Fundamentals for railway infrastructures 2. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | (1) Fundamentals: Infrastructures of public transport systems; interaction between track and vehicles; passengers and goods as infrastructure users; management and financing of networks; railway standards and normes. (2) Infrastructure planning: Planning processes and decision levels; planning processes of governmental bodies and railway companies; layout of a line. (3) Infrastructure design: Topologies of passenger stations; rail freight facilities; workshops. (4) Infrastructure design: Geometric design, switches, clearance profile; Planning and design of the passenger facilities of stations. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | Textbook: Ulrich Weidmann: Bahninfrastrukturen - Planen, Entwerfen, Realisieren, Erhalten. vdf Hochschulverlag 2020. German. Slides and a Zoom recording are made available. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | References to technical literature to be found in the textbook. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | No remarks. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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