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Jorge Gallego Sánchez-Torija
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3240-1883
Jesús García Herrero
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spain
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6657-0618
César Bedoya Frutos
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spain
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6756-0713
No 31 (2021): Health literacy at school and in the community, Articles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/ie.31.7635
Submitted: 13-04-2021 Accepted: 11-11-2021 Published: 02-12-2021
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Abstract

Facilities is an area of ​​knowledge to which little attention is normally paid within architecture. Its ignorance on the part of many professionals makes obvious the need to solve the metabolism of the building during its design process. In this situation, faced with the problem of how to teach facilities to architecture students, this paper seeks to investigate whether the learning obtained using the methodology of challenge-based learning is more profound and meaningful than the learning obtained through traditional teaching. To do this, a survey is carried out of the students who have completed the 5th year subject at the Madrid Technical School of Architecture "Facilities Project" that is developed using the challenge-based learning methodology. It is understood that these students have also completed the 4th course "Facilities and technical services" that is developed using the traditional teaching methodology. Students clearly value 5th grade better than 4th grade. The improvement that is most repeated by students is the proposal to develop the 4th year subject, with a more traditional approach, such as the 5th year subject, which applies the methodology of challenge-based learning. They even go so far as to state that after 8 months, the time that elapses between the end of first subject and the start of the second one, they no longer remember what they have learned: “In my opinion, it should not be taken for granted that we know or remember the 4th year subject the next year”, says a student in the survey.