About Course
A cross-disciplinary and integrated design approach is given, to apply the principles, methodology and tools for environmental responsive design, green architecture and dynamic - adaptive building, bridging the traditional gap between arts and the sciences, research, and practice, developing critical thinking and design skills to challenge established practices.
The Course is devoted to young African pre-bachelor students, with an interest in sustainability in the built environment, not excluding architects, engineers, and urban designers.
A holistic perspective stresses the many architectural expressions and possibilities encompassed within environmental design and nature-based solutions for urban resilience by connecting the skills and knowledge to the material aspects of the anthropic system, enriching the process of Resilient Responsive Design with the immaterial dimensions.
The participants will implement knowledge and skill in the area of innovative sustainable architectural design: they will be able to analyse more attractive sustainable building plan, more aesthetic solutions for renewable integration in building, more competitive real estate investment, and more soft-green solutions for urban retrofitting and resilience actions.
In addition, they will spend their expertise to analyse and to evaluate building performance, as well as to define the building environmental quality assessment, according to the international rating systems.
Prof.ssa Valeria Troya
Curriculum
- Lesson 1.1 - The notion of sustainability for a climate sensitive architecture
- Lesson 1.2 - The notion of sustainability for a climate sensitive architecture
- Lesson 1.3 - Architecture and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Lesson 1.4 - Architecture and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Lesson 2.1 - The origin of sustainable constructions
- Lesson 2.2 - An overview of vernacular construction techniques in Global South
- Lesson 2.3 - An overview of vernacular construction techniques in Global South
- Lesson 2.4 - An overview of vernacular construction techniques in Global South
- Lesson 3.1 - Passive design strategies and bioclimatic architecture
- Lesson 3.2 - Passive design strategies and bioclimatic architecture
- Lesson 3.3 - Passive design strategies and bioclimatic architecture
- Lesson 3.4 - Passive design strategies and bioclimatic architecture
- Lesson 4.1 - Active design strategies and renewable energy
- Lesson 4.2 - Active design strategies and renewable energy
- Lesson 4.3 - Active design strategies and renewable energy
- Lesson 4.4 - Active design strategies and renewable energy
- Lesson 5.1 - Social design and affordable architecture
- Lesson 5.2 - Social design and affordable architecture
- Lesson 5.3 - Social design and affordable architecture
- Lesson 5.4 - Social design and affordable architecture
- Lesson 6.1 - Participatory process and self-construction
- Lesson 6.2 - Participatory process and self-construction
- Lesson 6.3 - Participatory process and self-construction
- Lesson 6.4 - Participatory process and self-construction
- Lesson 7.1- Introduction to natural ventilation in buildings
- Lesson 7.2 - Introduction to natural ventilation in buildings
- Lesson 7.3 - Introduction to natural ventilation in buildings
- Lesson 7.4 - Introduction to natural ventilation in buildings
- Lesson 8.1 - Vernacular precedents
- Lesson 8.2 - Vernacular precedents
- Lesson 8.3 - Vernacular precedents
- Lesson 8.4 - Vernacular precedents
- Lesson 9.1- Contemporary precedents and best practices
- Lesson 9.2 - Contemporary precedents and best practices
- Lesson 9.3 - Contemporary precedents and best practices
- Lesson 9.4 - Contemporary precedents and best practices