LowEx+Arch Fall 2011: "Sustainable House in Taiki-Cho Japan"
What effects do future building technologies have on architecture and how can sustainable systems be fluidly integrated into an architectural concept?
Seminarweek Spring 2012: "Adaptive Solar Facade Workshop"
The Adaptive Solar Facade Workshop will introduce students to concepts of adaptive systems and their potential in sustainable facade design.
Seminarweek Spring 2011: "Adaptive Solar Design Workshop"
The Adaptive Solar Design Workshop will introduce students to concepts of “adaptive” design and physical computing.
LowEx+Arch Fall 2010: "Integrated Sustainable Design"
What effects do new building technologies have on architecture and how can sustainable systems be fluidly integrated into an architectural concept? The goal - zero CO2 buildings - is set. The selection of measures to meet the stated goal and their architectural integration is the main task of the course. The agenda is not merely about technical systems, but about the study of synergistic solutions that consider both the demands of sustainability and aesthetic criteria. In the fall semester 2010 the LowEx Architecture course was carried out in collaboration with the Chair of Building Systems, during which 25 students developed integrated sustainable design projects. Taking advantage of digital building models and analysis/simulation tools, various concepts were developed and evaluated.
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Architecture & Sustainable Building Technologies
Integration of Sustainable Building Technologies
The Integrated Discipline focuses on practice and implementation of sustainable technologies in specific design tasks for architecture and urban planning. In the fall semester 2010 this course was carried out with five students in the Urban Laboratory on the Edge: Radical Sustainability design studio, led by Prof. Dr. Marc Angélil: In one of the most dynamically developing areas of Zürich - around the Altstetten train station - on the basis of architectural projects, issues of sustainable urban development at the local scale were discussed. Strategies for the densification and mixing of the quarter were developed and tested on the basis of selected interventions. In this context the creative potential of traditional sustainability criteria was investigated. (Course description Chair Angélil).
