Computerized Architectural Design IV

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