Institute of Architecture of Residential Buildings

The Institute of architecture of residential buildings has its goal coded in the name. Our goal is to educate students of the Faculty of Architecture STU in the field which is connected to the housing architecture. We see the field of residential buildings as an important one from the point of praxis. That is why we are concentrating our concept of education (foremost the workshops) at the connection to the real problems in praxis. Teoretical subjects of our Institute are aimed at the creation of complex knowledge background, which can be applied by students by designing a whole scale of the forms of residential buildings. We are concentrating in our architecture studios at the field of designing of various types of residential buildings, family houses, hotels, retirement houses, student dormitories as well as other non-standard typological types. We are studying the typological types of housing architecture in broad perspective of spatial, cultural, historical and social context. From that we unwind the metodical aproach to our teaching. The orientation on actual trends is also an integral part of our teaching. That support the idea of sustainability.

Head of the Institute
Assoc. Prof. Ing. arch. Edita Vráblová, PhD.
edita.vrablova@stuba.sk 

Secretary
Radoslava Trenčanská 
radoslava.trencanska@stuba.sk

Teaching and Research Staff
Ing. arch. Ľubomír Závodny, guest. prof.
Assoc. Prof. Ing. arch. Andrea Bacová, PhD.
Assoc. Prof. Ing. arch. Branislav Puškár, PhD.
Assoc. Prof. Ing. arch. Ľubica Selcová, PhD.   
Assoc. Prof. Ing. arch. Michal Czafík, PhD.   
Ing. arch. Stanislav Majcher, PhD.
Ing. arch. Ján Pavúk, PhD.
Ing. arch. Pavel Kosnáč

Studios at higher levels of study are thematically oriented (effective housing, housing for people of all ages, senior friendly housing, and housing diversity, housing and proximity, high density housing). They are solved in a comprehensive position: the broader context and urban spatial relationship to the architectural object and its detail. The basis for studio work serves in many cases the current domestic and international student and professional oriented architectural competitions (Xella, Velux).

Theoretical subjects of The Institute of architecture of residential buildings provide students with variety of expertly molded comprehensive views of selected specific areas which complexity is escalating gradually from the first year of the Bachelor study to the the second year of Master studies. The main theoretical subjects which have a separate lecture teaching blocks in I.grade of the study include: Residential buildings (I.year), Contemporary residential building and Context of the current housing (IV.year). In the second grade we provide in the theoretical position this subjects: Progressive trends in housing, Revitalization of residential areas, Social forms of housing and Rural visions, The profession of architect. Subjects taught in undergraduate studies are focused on professional issues, which binds itself to the basics of architectural design. Education in the engineering study is focused on current problems of current practices related to housing and the housing architecture.

A special feature of The Institute of architecture of residential buildings is professional specialization and profililation in the field of the architecture of residential buildings and housing issues and related areas.

Uniqueness and individuality is supported by a long university tradition, reference figures, which the Faculty and the Institute worked in the past. Institute develops the legacy of the teaching philosophy of professor Emil Belluš, in its interpretation form, supports the tradition of Professor Jozef Lacko price, which is connected to the institutes area of residential buildings. Teaching at The Institute of architecture of residential buildings is done by 14 teachers (including three associate professors, one regular, one visiting professor, 9 assistants) and 8 PhD students. The Institute of architecture of residential buildings also provides doctoral studies, which focuses on research in the field of forms of housing, senior housing, social housing in the context of actual conditions. Institute participates in teaching of foreign students in English and German and directly cooperates with the Faculty of Architecture VUT in Brno, Faculty of Architecture TU Vienna, Bauhaus Universität in Weimar and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.