3603066: Sustainable Design - Courses I

Beschreibung

The content of this module is closely related to the unit projects that typically include the design of buildings, their sitting, their energy use, the choice of construction, materials and processes, as well as the quality of their internal environment and micro-climate with a focus on the issues of sustainability and the performance of the building envelope.

• The practice of building physics focussing the interaction between building envelope and building services.
• Studies of Building Services and Technologies imparting knowledge of technologies that allow controlling and optimizing energy flows within a building.
• Material Sciences offering the basis for construction of an intelligent building envelope.

Ziele

The module Courses Sustainable Design I seeks to establish the theoretical foundations for the concentration Sustainable Design. The topics of the courses center on the issues of sustainable building defined through an optimised energy balance during the entire life cycle of a building.
The aim is to provide students with with the necessary knowledge of the caracteristics of buildings with minimal operating energy based on a well balanced rapport between their skin and building services and technologies (heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration) as well as of grey energy and recycling as integral components within planning.

Lernergebnisse

At the end of the module each student should have the ability to demonstrate and/or work with:

• Knowledge that covers and integrates specific principles and methods of building technology centered on the issues of sustainable building defined through an optimised energy balance during the entire life cycle of a building.
• A critical understanding of the intellectual, aesthetic and tecnological content of self-selected buildings that supports architectural judgement.
• Researched and critical evaluation of the briefing and performance of buildings.
• A researched and integrated knowledge of of the caracteristics of buildings with minimal operating energy based on a well balanced rapport between their skin and building services and technologies (heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration) as well as of grey energy and recycling as integral components within planning, applicable in coherent design projects that express architectural intentions and considerations of a sustainable environment.
• The ability to define what type of research is relevant, what questions to ask, and which formats to record the findings to best serve as a springboard to design decisions.
• Execute complex defined and self-defined projects of research, development or investigation and identify and implement relevant outcomes.
• Research and critical evaluation of how a strategic choice of construction, materials and environmental approaches can determine the character of an architectural design project.
• Critically identify, define, conceptualise and analyse complex problems and issues relevant to the contemporary discipline of architecture.
• Communicate and articulate ideas and informations fluently in english language and work comprehensively in visual, oral and written forms.
• Make formal presentations about specialist topics to informed audiences.
• Exercise autonomy and initiative in carrying out set project briefs and self-directed programme of study.
• Demonstrate ability to manage time and physicalresources in relation to set project briefs and self-direct programmes of study as an individual and a group member.

Lehrmethoden

Lecture, seminar

Voraussetzungen (inhaltlich)

• Admission requirements for the Master of Science in Architecture Degree Program