Learning objectives
Knowledge and Understanding:
The aim of the course is to consolidate the fundamental skills necessary for correctly and comprehensively interpreting passive solutions for building envelopes. This is essential for intervening in building reuse and requalification scenarios, enabling a thorough and detailed technological analysis to evaluate the most appropriate and sustainable methods for transformation and technological adjustments.
Skills:
The ability to choose and correctly use passive building design and appropriate materials is crucial to maximize the utilization of natural and local sources for heating, cooling, and ventilation to create comfortable conditions inside buildings. These skills will address various environmental conditions, such as solar radiation, cool night air, and air pressure differences, to regulate the internal environment effectively.
Judgment Autonomy:
At the end of the course, students should have developed the ability to critically evaluate which traditional or innovative tools and technologies are most suitable for passive building design. This aims to promote sustainability in transformation processes.
Communication Skills:
Students will develop the ability to describe, communicate, and represent the building envelope in all its components at different scales through the use of the most appropriate methods and tools, which will be illustrated during the lessons.
Learning Ability:
Different lessons are designed to assist students in correctly using critical analysis methods for reuse and requalification projects incorporating using passive design solutions for envelopes. Additionally, these lessons help helping identify various different building envelope elements constitute up the building and define it. By and end of this course, students should have acquired the knowledge skills necessary to ndependently apply these aspects in their projects.