ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN COMPUTING IV (4 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, student will be able to: Demonstrate the use of the tools available to study the environmental impact on the energy use of a building; Define the sustainability in design and building; Analyze information modeling methods and technologies to model how the forces of nature operates at large spatial scales and over periods of time and how it affects building surrounding; Create information modeling methods and technologies to model how the forces of nature operates at large spatial scales and over periods of time and how it affects building surrounding.

Topics:

1. Introduction to Sustainability Design;
2. Information Models and Sustainable Design Simulations;
3. Building Information Modeling;
4. BIM to Sustainable Design;
5. Design of the Building Envelope;
6. Natural light;
7. Shadow and reflection;
8. Daylight simulation;
9. Comfort zone;
10. Passive system;
11. Energy simulation;
12. Active system;
13. Solar radiation;
14. Solar access analysis;
15. Acoustics simulation;
16. Optimum reverberation;
17. Wind simulation;
18. Air flow and vector;
19. Optimizing design for sustainability;
20. Adaptive building;
21. Parametric design;
22. Environmental data driven design.