Building engineering and architecture

ECOLOGICAL AND REGENERATIVE DESIGN: THEORY AND RESEARCH - Prolegomena - Climate: fundamentals and climate analysis - Environmental conditions, microclimate, and architecture - Climate change and design - Urban form and density: concepts and methods - Urban microclimate and energy balance - Urban heat island - Nature-based solutions (NBS) for buildings and neighborhoods - Urban-scale energy modeling (UBEM) - Design of buildings and neighborhoods for adaptation to climate change. SEMINARS WITH INVITED SCHOLARS - Design issues, cutting-edge methods and buildigs, and design solutions for contemporary public housing - Advanced microclimate simulation with GIS tools - Advanced microclimate and energy simulation with parametric tools - Computational design - Resilience and management of hydraulic risk from extreme rainfall events in urban areas INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL TOOLS FOR REGENERATIVE DESIGN - Climate consultant and climatic analysis - Climate change world weather file generator - QGIS and plugins for environmental analysis: GRASS and UMEP - Ladybug Tools - UBEM: Urban Building Energy Modelling

Essential prerequisites are those covered in Building Design I and II, Building Physics, and Architectural Design III courses. Excellent mastery of the notions and phenomena underlying the building-environment interaction, graphic representation techniques, and architectural drawing through digital tools is required. It is also preferable to have basic knowledge of data analysis and building energy modelling.

_Italiano - Mario Losasso, Maria Teresa Lucarelli, Marina Rigillo, Renata Valente, Adattarsi al clima che cambia. Innovare la conoscenza per il progetto ambientale, Maggioli Editore, 2020 - Roberto Bologna, Mario Losasso, Elena Mussinelli, Fabrizio Tucci, Dai distretti urbani agli eco-distretti. Metodologie di conoscenza, programmi strategici, progetti pilota per l’adattamento climatico, Maggioli Editore, 2021. - Valeria D’Ambrosio, Mattia Federico Leone, Progettazione ambientale per l’adattamento al Climate Change. 1. Modelli innovativi per la produzione di conoscenza, Clean Edizioni, 2016 - Valeria D’Ambrosio, Mattia Federico Leone, Progettazione ambientale per l’adattamento al Climate Change. 2. Strumenti e indirizzi per la riduzione dei rischi climatici, Clean Edizioni, 2017 _Inglese - Philippe Rahm, Climatic Architecture, Actar Publishers, 2023 - Brian Cody, Form Follows Energy: Using natural forces to maximize performance, Birkhauser, 2017 - Emanuele Naboni, Lisanne Havinga, Regenerative Design in Digital Practice. A Handbook for the Built Environment, Eurac Research, 2019 - Evyatar Erell, David Pearlmutter, Terence Williamson, Urban Microclimate. Designing the Spaces Between Buildings, Routledge, 2011 - SofiePelsmakers, The Environmental Design Pocketbook, RIBAPublishing; 2nd edition, 2015 Journals: Detail, Arketipo, The Plan, El Croquis, The Architectural Review.

Learning activities are as follows: • lectures and seminars; • design studio with tutoring; • invited speakers’ seminars. The Design Studio implies mandatory participation that will lead to an individual assessment. The activities will be monitored through interim project evaluations (milestones). At each milestone, works are presented to all Studio members (tutors and students, invited external critics). At the end of the semester, the projects will be collectively presented and discussed in the final critics.

In-person.

The exam consists of a mandatory oral test. During the session, theoretical contents of lessons and monographic seminars, as well as design-studio projects will be discussed in order to evaluate knowledge and skills acquired by the student.

- Torben Dahl, Climate and Architecture, Routledge, 2010 - Gerhard Hausladen, Building to suit the climate, Birkhauser, 2012 - Víctor Olgyay, Design With Climate: Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1963 - Baruch Givoni, Climate Considerations on Building and Urban Design, Wiley and Sons, New York, 1998 - Rafael Serra Florensa, Helena Coch Roura, L'energia nel progetto di Architettura, CittàStudi, Milano, 1997

Teaching activities consist of: - Lectures and seminars on design methods and themes; - Design studio; - Thematic seminars in collaboration with scholars and external experts. The design studio requires constant presence throughout the semester and will determines an individual assessment of the student. The progress will be monitored through intermediate milestones, based on public presentation and review of the ongoing project. At the end of the semester, during a final critique day, the works will be collectively presented and discussed in the presence of teachers and external experts.