This course is not currently offered, please contact the school or faculty of your program.

Course description

This course equips students with the knowledge and skills to design buildings that respond effectively to their environmental context. Focusing on sustainable passive and active design strategies, this course explores the relationships between climate, natural resources, building materials and performance to achieve health, well-being, and decarbonisation goals through architecture. Students analyse diverse climates and their physiological impacts, using climate data to inform design decisions. They learn to apply both passive and active design strategies for solar control, ventilation, moisture management and the effective use of thermal mass, while integrating renewable energy, sustainable water systems and site ecology strategies into architectural projects.