ARC 386M.33, ARC 327G
TTh 2:00PM-3:30PM, UTC 3.120
Open to all ARC students
Instructor: Michael Garrison
This course teaches students how to integrate sustainable building and planning principles into the architectural design process. As part of a design enrichment sequence, it examines qualitative and quantitative design principles in depth. Course content includes environmentally sensitive design and planning, case studies of green building applications, and strategies for incorporating sustainable planning and building principles into architectural form-making. Topics include bioclimatic comfort, building metabolism, climate-responsive design, passive heating and cooling systems, water conservation, waste systems, and sustainable building materials.
In Regenerative Architecture, the principal evaluative criteria are organized around a sequenced body of student research papers, written documentation, and critical appraisals of proposed designs or case-study precedents in regenerative architecture introduced through course lectures and assigned readings. The first paper is a collaborative inquiry, undertaken by a team of two students, that situates regenerative design within its broader intellectual and environmental context. Paul Hawken’s Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation (Penguin Books, 2021) will serve as a conceptual reference for this assignment, which should engage a topic addressed in the text. The second paper is an individual investigation, completed by one member of each team, that examines selected dimensions of regenerative design within one of twelve categories: architectural design, engineering, marketing, resilience, embodied energy, Water Sense design, housing affordability, Air Plus indoor air quality, thermal systems, EPA Energy Star, DOE zero energy ready homes, or zero net energy design. These papers should synthesize course concepts through their application to a proposed new regenerative project planned for a site on East Campus. The first and second papers should each not exceed eight pages in length. A third paper is a concise reflective essay, limited to one page, written in the first person and articulating the student’s learning outcomes from the course.
