Environment and Space Organization

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

- Presentation of the themes using intensive image viewing. Debate with students (student-student and student-teacher) on the examples presented.

- Resolution (by students, individually or in small groups, or by the teacher) of cases illustrative of the practical interest and relevance of the themes, and the selection of different decision aiding strategies.

- Role-playing.

Learning Outcomes

O1. Knowing the concepts and steps of the recent history of sustainable development.

O2. Justifying integration of environmental strategies as a conceptual paradigm, in the drawings of urban space and architecture. Climate changes - mitigation and adaptation.

O3. Justifying the inclusion of sustainable design strategies in the early stages of architectural design.

O4. Recognizing the multiplicity of working methodologies and the essence of multi-scale architectural conception. Experiencing the dimensions of converging and conflicting adaptation strategies, in urban scales and architectural objects.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Architectural urban culture

Reset concepts: urban, rural hybrid

Urban sprawl - contemporary diffused territories

History urban density

Demographics

Environment and Society

Concepts: green; ecological; bioclimatic and sustainable design

Background

What is being done

Environment and environmental strategies: new paradigm in architecture

Problematic and structuring

Climate change (energy and CO2)

Mitigation and Adaptation

Other methods

Design and planning of sustainable cities

Design strategies: categorization

Earth: landscape, place, solar geometry; materials and technologies, and construction

Air: winds, cooling and environmental conditioning

Water: the resource, network management and hydraulic flood risks

Fire: lighting, heating, solar gains and energies

Life: humans and biodiversity ; comfort and quality of life

Merger, symbiosis, holistic, and conflicting dimensions in multiscale approach to projects.

Head Lecturer(s)

João Paulo Vergueiro Monteiro de Sá Cardielos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 40.0%
Exam: 60.0%

Bibliography

BANHAM, Reyner, The architecture of the well-tempered environment, London, The Architectural Press, 1984 [1ª. Ed. 1969].

BANHAM, Reyner, Los Angeles: the architecture of four ecologies, Los Angeles, Harper and Row, 1971.

BORJA, Jordi, La Ciudad Conquistada, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2003.

FRAMPTON, Keneth, Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2001.

KWINTER, Stanford, Architectures of Time. Towards a Theory of Event in Modernist Culture, Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 2002.

HAGAN, Susannah, Taking Shape: The New Contract between Architecture and Nature, Architectural Press, Oxford, 2001.

HAGAN, Susannah, Nature, Landscape and Building for Sustainability, ed. William Saunders, “Five Reasons to Adopt Environmental Design,” University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, 2008.

ROSSI, Aldo, L’architettura della città, Pádua, Marsilio, 1966.