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Environmental Technologies in Buildings

3-2-7 units. REST · Undergraduate

Introduction to the study of the thermal and luminous behavior of buildings. Examines the basic scientific principles underlying these phenomena and introduces students to a range of technologies and analysis techniques for designing comfortable indoor environments. Challenges students to apply these techniques and explore the role energy and light can play in shaping architecture. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version.

Fall 2018

This course focuses on the thermal, luminous, and acoustic behavior of buildings, examining the basic scientific principles underlying these phenomena and introducing students to technologies and analysis techniques for designing comfortable indoor environments. Students are challenged to apply these techniques and explore the role light, energy, and sound can play in shaping architecture.

Spring 2006 · Introduction to Building Technology

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Outside environment and human needs
  • Heat flow
  • Air flow
  • Humid air
  • Thermal comfort and insulation
  • Condensation and moisture
  • Climate-responsive design
  • Passive controls, thermal balance
  • Forms of energy and active heating/cooling
  • Physics of light, photometry
  • Vision and colors, visual comfort
  • Designing with natural light
  • Electric lighting
  • Sound and hearing
  • Noise insulation
  • Room acoustics
  • Construction principles, foundations
  • Masonry
  • Concrete
  • Timber
  • Steel
  • Building elements: walls, openings, floors, roofs
  • Integration of all aspects of building technology (class discussion)

Readings

  • There is one textbook for this course:
    Listed reading
  • Szokolay, Steven. Introduction to Architectural Science: The Basis of Sustainable Design . Burlington, MA: Architectural Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780750658492.
    Listed reading
  • Deplazes, Andrea. Constructing Architecture . Basel, Switzerland: Birkhäuser, 2006. ISBN: 9783764371890.
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  • Ching, Francis D. K., and Cassandra Adams. Building Construction Illustrated . New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. ISBN: 9780471358985.
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  • Allen, Edward, and David Swoboda. How Buildings Work: The Natural Order of Architecture . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780195161984.
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  • Allen, Edward, and Joseph Iano. Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods . New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. ISBN: 9780471219033.
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  • Lechner, Norbert. Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Design Methods for Architects . New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. ISBN: 9780471241430.
    Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Subject meets with 1.564[J] , 4.464[J] Prereq: None U (Fall) 3-2-7 units. REST

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