Peculiarities of staircase representation in educational process

Abstract

Every day we climb the stairs. The Lithuanian documents such as construction standards and technical building regulations show the rules of graphical representation of staircase elements. The graphical representation of staircase in the training measures for VGTU students is explained in two ways: old “pencil” methods (such as vertical and horizontal sections of the elements) and the adapted computer program in AutoCAD. Despite the different approaches, it is important to future building engineers to be able to understand and draw relationships between the elements of the stairs in the plan and cut. Students need to draw stairs projections in single family and public building course projects in two semesters. However there is no time to explain the peculiarities of drawing, although it should be done. Therefore, the authors believe that graphical representations .are necessary for additional demos (posters) helping to realize the features of stairs elements.