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Sep 07, 2024
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2022-2023 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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CAD 265 - Design for Sustainability 4 Credits, 6 Contact Hours 3 lecture periods 3 lab periods
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) applications specific to site and building sustainability. Includes green building fundamentals, sustainable design principles, parametric modeling for analysis, and a building design proposal.
Prerequisite(s): CAD 166
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Course Learning Outcomes
- Differentiate successful green building strategies in case studies.
- Diagram (graphically summarize) various sustainable design principles.
- Integrate (execute) specific building information modeling techniques to compare design options.
- Generate a sustainable building design proposal based on design criteria.
Outline:
- Green Building
- Economic, social, cultural, health, and environmental implications
- Heating, cooling, and lighting needs of buildings
- Climate and typical Meteorological Year Data
- Human thermal comfort
- Psychometric chart
- Prescriptive- and performance- based criteria
- Life-cycle cost analysis
- Architecture 2030 Challenge
- Leadership in energy and environmental design
- Insight 360 and other analysis tools
- Regional and vernacular design solutions
- Case studies
- Sustainable Design Principles
- Site context
- Latitude and longitude
- Land form and drainage
- Flora, fauna, and geology
- Culture and visitor flow
- Utilities and infrastructure
- Transportation access
- Community services
- View sheds
- Building massing
- Thermodynamic principles
- Material conductivity and capacity
- Enclosure options
- Solar orientation
- Daylighting
- Occupation schedule
- Altitude and azimuth angles
- Summer and winter solstices
- Shading devices and light shelves
- Heat island effect
- Visible Transmittance
- Solar Heat Gain Coefficient
- Passive cooling
- Thermal mass with night flushing
- Roof pond, cool roof, green roof
- Evaporative cooling, fountains, cool tower
- Thermal chimney/ stack effect
- Cross-ventilation, vegetation, badgirs
- Design priorities per climate region
- Energy use
- Heating and cooling systems
- Solar photovoltaics
- Solar thermal systems
- Key performance indicators, Energy Use Intensity
- Factors, ranges, and specifications
- Hydrology
- Fixture efficiency
- Waste conveyance
- Rainwater harvesting
- Site grading
- Plant selection
- Permeable materials
- Material selection
- Form and texture
- Vernacular tradition
- Resourcefulness
- Regional source location
- Rapidly renewable
- Recycled content
- Toxicity
- Maintenance and end-of-life
- Heat capacity, emittance, and reflectivity
- Building Information Modeling Techniques
- Site context
- Site model and sections
- CAD import
- Topo surfaces
- Aerial photographs
- Landscape elements
- Floor Area Ratio
- Net cut and fill volumes
- Slope analysis
- Wind roses
- Building massing
- Modeled space adjacencies
- Tabular inventory of programmatic space needs
- Volume to surface area ratio calculations
- Total UA limit
- Roof conductance
- Solar orientation
- Parametric family for daylight penetration based on window height
- Daylight mapping using rendering tools
- Visibility settings for sun path per geographic location
- Solar animation
- Passive cooling
- Modeling strategies
- Visualization techniques
- Energy use
- Basecase model
- Case variations
- Hydrology and water efficiency
- Estimated water use
- Catchment area calculation
- Cistern sizing
- Roof and parking lot design
- Stormwater management
- Material selection
- Material library
- Wall, roof, and floor family material compositions
- Take-off schedule
- Percentage of volume calculation
- Building Proposal
- Building Information Modeling and parametric design
- Design challenge criteria
- Inspiration for project solution
- Integration of sustainable principles
- Experiential sequence for building occupants
- BIM model and documentation
- Evaluation of design effectiveness
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