ARC 384K
Environmental Technology I: Case Studies

Instructor: Dr. Steven Moore, AIA
Course Description:

This graduate course is a (mostly) qualitative survey of heating, cooling, ventilating, electrical, plumbing, solar, lighting, vertical transportation, and fire safety technologies. Some quantitative analysis is required. Following an introduction to the physical principles of environmental control, students will critically study the environmental control systems of selected cases so as to better understand the architectural, cultural, and ecological implications of the technological choices necessarily made in the process of design.

Two major case studies are completed during the semester. In case study 1, teams of two or three students analyze the design and operation of an exemplar of their own choosing that demonstrates specified physical phenomena. In case study 2 individuals students apply the content of course reading and lectures to a project of their own design. Case study 2 includes weekly assignments and a final report.