Sustainable architecture

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information below is subject to change, in particular that concerning the teaching mode (presential, distance or in a comodal or hybrid format).

3 credits

30.0 h

Teacher(s)

Thielemans Benoit;

Language

French

Main themes

This teaching unit will cover:

the concept of sustainable development and the meaning of words related to the contemporary challenges of maintaining the conditions for mankind's existence
the multi-disciplinary nature of the issue and possible responses against a background of the barriers in knowledge and action being broken down
the issue of durability in architecture, with a critical examination of its ability to provide an appropriate answer to the issues at stake
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 :

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

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

Bachelor in Architecture (Tournai)

ARCT1BA