Integrated Environmental Design

Code

ABEE4012

School

Architecture and Built Environment

Level

4

Credits

10

Semesters

Autumn UK

Summary

How do I design the environmental strategies for a building if I don’t have a building design? The answer is that if you wish to deliver well thought through buildings that cater for the needs of their users and are mindful of their impact on the wider environment, both should evolve in tandem. This module links to design studio project briefs and introduces approaches that can be used to embed environmental engineering principles from the earliest stages of the design process.

Target Students

MEng Architecture and Environmental Design K230, U7UATTED.

Assessment

• 30% Coursework 1: Study sheets.
• 50% Coursework 2: Technical report.
• 20% Coursework 3: Design portfolio.

Assessed by end of autumn semester

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

DESIGN

1. Students are expected to develop environmental strategies in tandem with the completed design. The rigour with which these strategies are integrated forms part of the module assessment. 
2. Students are expected to develop environmental strategies paying attention to relevant legislation and best practice. 
 

TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

3. Environmental strategies integrated into the final project should address the needs of the user and human well being.
4. Environmental strategies integrated into the final project should address the welfare of future generations.
5 Environmental strategies should explore, in a rigorous manner, their relationship with the wider environment.
6. Environmental strategies integrated into the final project should be formulated with consideration to a sustainable environment.
7. Environmental strategies integrated into the final project should explore relationships with the use of materials in the project.
8. Environmental strategies integrated into the final project should explore relationships with the processes of assembly that are proposed for the project.
9. Where relevant, students will be expected to explore links between environmental strategy and structural strategies proposed for their project.
10. Students are expected to demonstrate awareness of relevant construction and operational issues associated with their proposed designs. Their final work should reflect the requirements of relevant legislation, codes of practice and health and safety requirements.
 

CULTURAL CONTEXT

11. It is expected that student work will be informed by appropriate use of case study and precedent analysis.
12. It is expected that student work will be developed taking heed of spatial, aesthetic, technical and social qualities of their ideas within the scope and scale of a wider environment.
13 Work will be developed in part through individual and group tutorials where students will be expected to both give and receive criticism of their own work, the work of other students and work introduced through precedent.

COMMUNICATION

14. It is expected that work will be communicated via appropriate visual, written, numerical media and where relevant through use of physical models. The effectiveness of communication and the quality of presentation are assessed in relation to the quality of underlying design work.
15. Student work should make use of appropriate architectural representations to effectively communicate design ideas.
 

In addition to demonstrating:

ENGINEERING ANALYSIS

Ability to identify, classify and describe the performance of systems and components through the use of analytical methods and modelling techniques

Ability to apply quantitative and computational methods, using alternative approaches and understanding their limitations, in order to solve engineering problems and to implement appropriate action

Understanding of, and the ability to apply, an integrated or systems approach to solving complex engineering problems

Ability to extract and evaluate pertinent data and to apply engineering analysis techniques in the solution of unfamiliar problems.
 

DESIGN

Understand and evaluate business, customer and user needs, including considerations such as the wider engineering context, public perception and aesthetics

Investigate and define the problem, identifying any constraints including environmental and sustainability limitations ethical, health, safety, security and risk issues intellectual property codes of practice and standards

Work with information that may be incomplete or uncertain, quantify the effect of this on the design and, where appropriate, use theory or experimental.

Conveners

• Dr Robin Wilson