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Environment - ARCH7162
 FBE

   
   
   
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

Within the context of integrated design this subject explores the potentials and limitations of interdisciplinary ecological design as an approach to improving the sustainability of existing buildings and built-environments, and as a process of innovation for non-residential building design. These issues will be explored through assessment and monitoring of building performance, metabolism, comfort and services for non-residential buildings, construction ecology, and case-studies of advanced integrated design. Students will participate in a number of short design exercises responding to these issues that are designed not only to enable them in this aspect of architectural design but to develop a critical awareness of the limitations of current practice.


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