Sustainable Building Engineering

The BD4SA Course aims to provide a fundamental understanding of the complexity of the sustainable design of a building, from the concept design stage to the detailed design stage. It proposes an overview of the relation among climate, architecture and construction and of the various issues that have to be adequately combined to offer occupants a physical, functional and psychological well-being. Students will be guided through the different components, constraints and systems of a work of architecture. The course serves as introduction to the key concept of sustainable design, passive strategies, construction methods and building materials. The body of the Architecture will be our Course investigating skin and bones understanding the anatomy of the building through the use of digital modelling. The objective is the development of design and construction methods based on sustainability through a multidisciplinary decision-making process aimed at the reduction of land consumption, social mixité, at design innovations, use of highly innovative construction materials and technologies.