Sustainable architecture

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

Specific learning outcomes

Students will be able to develop and integrate the following skills:

• Deal with the issue of sustainable development in a multi-disciplinary and holistic way, involving social, economic and environmental aspects of architecture
• Develop awareness of the impact of architecture on sustainable development issues
• Be familiar with the basic concepts and develop methods of action (designs, methods etc.) to make an architectural project a sustainable one
• Recognise the specific role of the architect to bring sustainable development factors into architectural design
• Create a multi-disciplinary link between the compulsory teaching units at Bachelor¿s level (plants, town planning, materials, facilities, building physics and perception) and sustainable construction in a multi-disciplinary and holistic approach to the architecture studio.

Contribution to the learning outcomes reference network:

With regard to the Learning Outcomes Reference Framework of the Master¿s degree in Architecture, this teaching contributes to the development, acquisition and assessment of the following learning outcomes:

Build knowledge of architecture

• Be familiar with and analyse the discipline¿s basic references
• Be able to use given references which, by analogy, can lead to other interpretations of the context

Place the action

• Identify and analyse the paradigms on which the study is based according to various given methods and starting from various points of view
• Experiment with the possibilities of transforming a context

Make use of other subjects

• Seek out other approaches, exchanges of views and ways of enhancing thinking about architecture

Use the technical dimension

• Observe and assess the main construction principles that give architecture a formal, material and temporal dimension

Make committed choices

• Make links between different methodological and epistemological perspectives