ARC 0402 - BUILDING SYSTEMS 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces architectural design responses for energy conservation and natural conditioning, human comfort, and the site-specific dynamics of climate. In the first section of this course, students will be introduced to building energy conservation and passive heating and cooling technologies. Students will gain an understanding of the basic laws of comfort and heat flow with the variables of local climate to create energy design guidelines for their own work. This course will illustrate overview of world energy consumption in buildings and energy design standards on building energy conservation successes, and emerging demands for a broader definition of sustainability. The course will end with a focus on the design integration of natural conditioning systems and the potentially dynamic interface of mechanical systems in small- and large-scale buildings. Students will leave with technical knowledge about established and emerging systems, technologies and assemblies of building construction, and methods to assess those technologies. The core product of this course is a set of full design specifications and calculations for a residential-scale building. This project stresses the significance of architectural design decision-making on energy consumption and comfort. Students will compile a professional energy consultant's report, designing the most viable energy conservation retrofit measures for their client from siting, massing, organization, enclosure detailing, opening control, to passive system integration and management. The U.S. is facing an energy crisis. This nation uses uses more energy per capita than every other industrialized nation. At the same time, the rising cost of energy is a source of poverty and inequity. Low-income households are burdened with rising energy costs. Our commitment to designing net zero energy and carbon positive buildings and communities is critical to environment equity and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0110 or 0174

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