Aims: To create an awareness of the physical environment around buildings, and to demonstrate a range of appropriate measures for modifying this environment, through passive and active, visual and technical means. In addition, to introduce principles of sustainable environmental design.
Learning Outcomes:
Students who have completed this unit will be able to demonstrate in an essay, and in relation to a specific building type in the design project being explored in Design Studio 5.2, the impact of Landscape & Ecology on architectural design. An acquaintance with general concepts in ecology and facts related to a specific case study should also be achieved by the students. In addition, the students will be able to demonstrate the application of principles of sustainability in project-based coursework.
Skills:
Independent research; communication of information.
Content:
The unit will comprise of introductory lectures relating prevalent landscape and ecological attitudes, and principles of sustainability, to the context of the urban situation being studied in Design Studio 5.2. Tutorials will develop individual and group responses to such issues by students in the context of design problems that are part of the studio work.
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