Architecture - Urban Regeneration

General Objectives This module, which is integrated with that of Technological Environmental Design, aims to provide students with the tools they need to successfully update energy features and systems when regenerating and redeveloping the built environment, through the analysis of the entire process of planning, designing and evaluating the thermodynamic merits of improvements designed to increase environmental sustainability. The course covers all the technical and systems aspects of the design phase in order to ensure the highest level of integration when installing, maintaining and managing energy systems in buildings and estates, with a view to a ‘deep energy renovation’ that results in the creation of ‘zero emissions’ and ‘nearly zero energy’ regenerated buildings. Specific Objectives Knowledge and comprehension ability At the end of teaching, students will have to demonstrate to handle the acquired knowledge, to be able to comprehend all physics phenomena, to be able in technical systems designing process for building applications. Moreover, students must have acquired an adequate and specific knowledge of the transformation processes, energy management as well as the energy end-use. Nowadays, those skills can be unanimously considered necessary for achieving strategic objectives concerning environment respect and protection. The knowledge check will be carried out by the final oral exam. Ability to apply knowledge and comprehension At the end of teaching, students must demonstrate the mastery of an experimental and analytical-integrated design approach to finalize the acquired knowledge and understanding skills, in order to figure out complex problems related to the design processes of technical systems for building applications and to of put in practice several strategies for efficient and rational energy use. In detail, students must be able to implement new design processes as well as the refurbishment ones, by using the acquired methods, techniques, tools, procedures and implementation mechanisms. The knowledge check will be carried out by the final oral exam. Autonomy of judgment At the end of teaching, students must demonstrate the ability to acquire knowledge and experiences, to evaluate and recast them so as to form an independent and original judgment. In detail, students must demonstrate skills in autonomous management and in the conscious complex issues planning and design belonging to the technical installations sector, aiming at providing with innovative and sustainable solutions. The knowledge check will be carried out by the final oral exam. Communication skills At the end of teaching, students must demonstrate to be able to communicate effectively and clearly what they learned in terms of operational capacity according to the theoretical, methodological, technical and design knowledge, typical of this teaching. To do so, they have to be able to edit project proposals, using suitable communication tools and combining different representation forms and language. Those skills achievement, will be accomplished in this teaching by means of practical activities that assure both expressive and illustrative skills full possession related to the project. The knowledge check will be carried out by the final oral exam. Learning skill At the end of teaching, students must demonstrate a high capacity for autonomous learning, which allows to update and continuously increase their knowledge and skills in the design of technical systems and, more generally, in issues related to efficient and rational energy end-use. Those skills acquisition will be attained by the specific theoretical contributions hailing from lectures, aimed at expanding the skills to access innovative methodologies, tools and applications and by the constant participation in the experimental and design activities, within concrete design experiences. Those skills assessment, will be mainly done by the final oral exam, structured in such a way to highlight the autonomy in organizing one's own learning.