ICAD-ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN 2019
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• Credit #01
Students are required to present their work on March the 26th. File Upload Deadline: next Monday at noon. A dropbox invitation will be sent soon
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• Class Schedule
For a detailed class scheduling check it out in the section “Schedule”
20 March_ Class Registration
After this period students are not allowed to enter the course
Suggested reading in order to acquire an appropriate terminology and some theoretical foundations:
– G.Ridolfi, Digital Technology for Architectural Fabrication [link] [alt.link]
– G. Ridolfi Learning Design through Designerly Thinking. [link] [alt.link] [video]
SYLLABUS
SCHEDULE
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
ASSIGNMENTS
Credit #04. Design Development: Urban Canopy Schematic Prototype & Landscape definition
Project DevelopmentCredit #03. Conceptual Design: Urban Canopy & Landscape Optioneering
OptioneeringCredit #02. Personal Taccuino on Urban Canopy & Landscape Research
Project ResearchCredito#01 Place Assessment & Design Program
Project BriefingTEXTBOOKS
• Textbooks. A selection of the main founding resources for Environmental Design class
LECTURES
CLASS LECTURES
Readinge #00 – Digital Technology for Architectural Fabrication [LINK] [alt.link]
Lecture #01 – BIM&Performance_Simulation LINK
Lecture #02.1_Architectural_Brandscaping LINK
Lecture #02.2_Space_Programming&Planning LINK
Lecture #02.3_Modeling_Users’_Comfort LINK
Lecture #03.1_Modeling_Climate_&_Place_to_Build/Climate LINK
Lecture #03.2_Modeling_Climate_&_Place_to_Build/Place LINK
Lecture #04_Environmental Mass Optioneering in the Early Stage Design LINK
Lecture #05_Daylight Analysis LINK
Lecture #06_Modeling wind and ventilation for human comfort LINK
Lecture #07_Adaptive architectures LINK
OTHER LECTURES
The Building Envelope LINK
Assembling and joining structures _LINK
RESOURCES
•Climate Consultant. Free, easy-to-use, graphic-based computer program that displays climate data in dozens of ways useful to architects, builders, contractors, and homeowners, including temperatures, humidity, wind velocity, sky cover, and solar radiation in both 2-D and 3-D graphics for every hour of the year in either Metric or Imperial units. Climate Consultant 6.0 also plots sun dials and sun shading charts overlaid with the hours when solar heating is needed or when shading is required. The psychrometric chart analysis shows the most appropriate passive design strategies in each climate, while the new wind wheel integrates wind velocity and direction data with concurrent temperatures and humidities and can be animated hourly, daily, or monthly.atches to analyze climate data, sun geometry, winds and human comfort
•Climate & Comfort Analysis using Grasshopper / Lady Bug. Patches to analyze climate data, sun geometry, winds and human comfort
•Environmental Mass Optioneering using Grasshopper / HoneyBee. Patches and guides to run mass energy simulation
•Daylight Simulation with HoneyBee. Patches and links to run daylight simulation
•Assignment Examples Lab Ambientale 2017-18. Students’ examples about Climate report, Place inventory, Space Program, and Environmental Mass Optioneering
•Assignment Examples Environmental Design 2016-17 Environmental201 Students’ examples about Weather report, Site Examples, Demolition & Excavation, Foundation
• Other publications. Resources collected in «Smart & Green for Responsive Architecture» Issue stack.
• Pinterest. Pins on different matter organized in Pinterest
• Previous students’ works. A slide show of some examples.