Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

The aim of the project is to enable the students to develop preliminary building design for energy efficient welfare buildings with special emphasis on structure, materials and detailing aspects of architecture and using an advanced integrated design approach. Technical, structural, spatial, social, health, well-being, functional, logistical as well as tectonic and aesthetic problems must be solved in an integrated building design for a specific user group.         

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Must have knowledge of advanced integrated design
• Must have knowledge of material and structural methods, principles and strategies that are applicable to sustainable architecture
• Must have knowledge of architectural conditions for health and well-being
• Must have knowledge of different strategies in the field of sustainable welfare architecture

Skills

• Must be able to choose, implement and combine structural strategies with passive as well as active energy strategies in architectural design
• Must be able to choose and implement building materials with adequate detailing
• Must be able to model and design energy efficient buildings with sustainable structural qualities using computational design tools
• Must be able to identify and target a design for a defined user group and defined activity with emphasis on indoor climate and sensuous qualities
• Must be able to evaluate the sustainable standard of the building according to acknowledged environmental certification systems.

Competences

• Must be able to develop a sustainable welfare building proposal that fulfills all predefined architectural, structural, functional, social, energy and acoustic requirements
• Must be able to communicate proper terminology in oral, written and graphical communication and documentation of problems and solutions in the integrated design of buildings and building services
• Must be able to discuss and reflect on tectonic, material, perceptive and aesthetic qualities of integrated sustainable building design

Type of instruction

See general description of the types of instruction described in § 17.

Exam

Exams