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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2022 through Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- ARCH 204
- Course Title:
- Green Residential Studio
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 20
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 40
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Addendum to Course Description
The course will work towards describing a way that a building can strongly relate to site, climate, local building materials, and the sun.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Examine and apply green building (environmentally responsible) principles and guidelines, and rating systems to residential design.
- Compare and communicate the benefits and disadvantages of passive and active systems, materials, strategies, and construction practices.
- Establish performance targets for energy and resource efficient solutions that minimize greenhouse gas emissions and environmental degradation.
Course Activities and Design
Course materials will be presented in a lecture and discussion format", using multimedia presentations (slides, overheads, videos, PowerPoint), showing examples of the various sustainable structures, retrofits, and systems. These examples are applied to residential and small commercial buildings. Discussions will be supplemented by fields trips to sites which display various sustainable structures and systems. Weekly assignments will provide an opportunity for student to apply class information to variety of building types," and examine their own strategies for development of sustainable buildings and systems. Class projects will provide summary and application form information covered during the term.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
See Department