37811 - TechnologiesforSustainable Design II

Learning outcomes

The student, once acquired the tools useful for controlling the procedures to define high-performance and sustainable buildings, closely related to the environment, will apply the gained knowledge and realize designs. Personal judgment will be supported in order to stimulate reflections on the relationship between formal features, technological and environment aspects, paying particular attention to user needs and to sustainability. The student will develop skills in technical control of the project proposal, through a continuous review of the relationship between project idea and construction aspects.

Course contents

The main goal of this module is to make the student conscious of the closed interaction which links technological choices, the building energy behaviour and the key impacts related to a changing climate. Innovative construction systems as well as climate responsive strategies will be explored to address design activities towards a sustainable transition within the built environment. Students are asked to develop a critical thinking and a resilient oriented design approach based on both the assessment of performances effect deriving from technological choices in the building life cycle and of a user centred perspective.

The core contents of the design studio are addressed to energy efficient and sustainable architecture, aiming to control the process as whole in relation with boundary conditions and complex contexts with particular reference to generate a response capacity to climate change.

Readings/Bibliography

The bibliographical references relating to the different topics gradually covered will be provided at the end of each lesson that addresses them.

Teaching methods

The design studio combines theoretical lessons and practical workshop activities according to a calendar that will be delivered at the beginning of the course and updated during the term. Key note speakers such as problem owners and key stakeholders will be invited to give the students the chance to work with relation to real market conditions.

The activities will be scheduled according to some expected progress step (SAL), each one is specifically addressed to solve a very targeted design question. Each step foresees the student produces a synthesis of his work and a slideshow to allow discussion and further development.

Assessment methods

The objective of the Degree Laboratory is to assist the student in the identification and preliminary framing of a theme which will then be developed by each student in their own Degree Thesis. The evaluation of the activities conducted during the Laboratory will take into account the correctness and effectiveness of the analysis methodologies adopted and the level of detail with which the design strategies to be implemented in the subsequent degree thesis are outlined

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