RMB 3.1 – Environment Design 1

Recommended Prerequisites

N/A

Teaching Methods

Foster the development of sustainability key competences that allow connecting sustainability to the field of study.
Hands-on work, which implies workshops, approaches to real cases and relationship with the design studio
module, where students have the opportunity to put in practice the development of sustainable design strategies.
Post Occupancy Evaluation(POE): learning from modern buildings in use. Simulation tools to test the project
design strategies.
Assessment includes logs on theoretical concepts, practical workgroup and individual project development (in
coordination with DS)

Learning Outcomes

Learning concepts and strategies for an environmentally sustainable design practice;
Learning techniques in bioclimatic project strategies and practical solutions to the project, in a collaboration with
de Design Studio - Sustainability integration within the design practice;

Learning process HOW TO DO with support on practice within the case studies in the specific area of sustainable
re-use;
Developing Key competences in sustainability: systems-thinking competence, anticipatory competence, normative
competence, strategic competence, and interpersonal competence.

 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

PRINCIPLES AND THEORETICAL CONCEPTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN.
Architecture and Sustainable Development: a challenge to creativity; an ethical responsibility.
Climate and contextualization. From energy consumption in buildings to energy production. Embodied energy and
water. Environmental impacts. Adaptive comfort.
UN Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs)
STRATEGIES AND METHODOLOGIES
Concepts, strategies, methodologies and analysis of parameters of environmental performance and environmental
comfort.
Lessons from vernacular architecture and its integration in modern architecture.
Re-use principles and criteria.
The urban scale: criteria and parameters for a more sustainable urban design.
Legislation on buildings’ energy performance and environmental certification systems.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 40.0%
Project: 60.0%

Bibliography

Anink, D.; Boonstra, C.; Mark, J. (1998) “Handbook of Sustainable Building”, James & James, London Baker, Nick;
Steemers, K., (2000) “Energy and Environment in Architecture: A Technical Design Guide”, E&FN Spon, London.
Birkeland, Janis, (2020) “Net-Posi ve Design and Sustainable Urban Development”, Routledge, London ( ISBN:
9780367258566)
Brian Edwards, David Turrent, (2000) “Sustainable Housing: principles and practice”, Spon, London
Givoni, Baruch,(1969) “Man, Climate and Architecture”, ed. Henry Cowan, ASP, London
Goulding, J.; Lewis, J.O.; Steemers, (1992) “Energy in Architecture - The European Passive Solar
Handbook”, Botsford for the Commission of the European Communities, London
Olgyay, Victor,n (1963) “Design with Climate - Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural
Regionalism”, Princeton University Press, Princeton
Mossin, Natalie et al, (2018) “AN ARCHITECTURE GUIDE to the UN 17 Sustainable
Development Goals”, KADK, Copenhagen (ISBN: 978-87-7830-992-1)