FLIPPED CLASSROOM METHOD FOR PROJECT DESIGN LEARNING

The subject known as Construction Project is taught in the Master degree of the Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. In this subject students should develop the necessary competence for project design. The methodology in this subject has been changed from traditional lectures to a flipped classroom method. By using this new methodology, students acquire the necessary competence to building project design, which are: identification and characteristics of components and their relationship with final building project, the optimal planning of the project designed by analytical methods and computer program, and analyzing and comparing the results. First of all, an index is prepared, including the documentation which will be studied of all the lectures to be given, straightaway the syllabus of each lecture is sent three days before. Doubts are cleared in class and the parts of the project are proposed. Afterwards, the analytical design and computer design of the project are developed. Finally, the results obtained are compared with the design results. In conclusion, the multitude of concepts related to project planning is better assimilated with this methodology; as they becomes clearer than with theoretical learning. This is reflected in surveys, which show an increase in students' satisfaction level. In addition, the average mark of this subject has increased significantly over the mark obtained by the traditional lecture system.