Sustainable architecture

lbarc1366  2019-2020  Bruxelles Saint-Gilles

Sustainable architecture
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
3 credits
30.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Thielemans Benoit;
Language
French
Main themes
This teaching unit will cover:
  1. the concept of sustainable development and the meaning of words related to the contemporary challenges of maintaining the conditions for mankind's existence
  2. the multi-disciplinary nature of the issue and possible responses against a background of the barriers in knowledge and action being broken down
  3. the issue of durability in architecture, with a critical examination of its ability to provide an appropriate answer to the issues at stake
  4. the methods to progress from design to effective implementation in an architectural project (design approaches, design and assessment methods, practical guides etc.)
Aims

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

1 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
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Faculty or entity
LOCI


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Bachelor in Architecture (Bruxelles)
ARCB1BA
3
Bachelor in Architecture (Tournai)
ARCT1BA
3