UNDERGRADUATE COURSE CREDIT:

First Semester, Third Year Design Enrichment Course

GRADUATE COURSE CREDIT:

First Professional Program:

• Theory III
• Emphasis in "Sustainable Design"
• Certificate in "Sustainable Design"

Post Professional Program:

• Specialization in " Sustainable Design"

Academic Program (M.S.A.S.)

• Specialization in " Sustainable Design"

OBJECTIVE

To understand the interaction of the sun with architectural form as it relates to energy sensitive and thermal comfort design.

PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH

It will follow the seminar format. Formal class presentations are interlaced with class discussions. The discussions will be based both on formal presentations and on outside reading. The material will be supplemented with appropriate computer programs.

In addition to the reading and presentation common to all students there will be individual projects that each student will study in greater depth and report back to the class. There will also be a final project to be executed either individually or in teams. The final project will be a design study that integrates the basic principles learned during the course of the semester.

TOPICS

• solar orbit and apparent solar motion
• solar coordinates and climactic classification
• relative insolation and solar gain
• solar controls
• solar views to study an entire building for one moment in time
• fish eye views to study the annual exposure from one point

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Environment, Power and Society, Odum, H.T. Wiley Interscience, 1971.
• Thermal Comfort, P.O.Fanger, McGraw Hill 1972
• Energy and Form, Ralph L. Knowles, MIT Press 1974
• Energy, Environment, and Buildings, Steadman, P. Cambridge U. Press, 1975.
• Energy Conservation Through Building Design, D.Watson, Ed., McGraw Hill, 1979
• Thermal Inertia in Architectural Walls, F. Arumi, NCMA, 1977
• Audubon House, Croxton Collaborative, Arch, Wiley, 1994