ARK-53806 Sustainable Design Studio, 15 cr

Implementation ARK-53806 2018-01

Description

The course focuses on integrated city design and development in support of designing sustainable and livable cities and spaces. Basic elements of social, technical, and financial sustainability will be discussed and further elaborated in course works. The students will study and innovate the development of city blocks of a selected case area for enhanced implementing sustainability and functionality of future cities. Based on the group work, the architectural students will develop a concept and design an individual design project for a selected urban space to improve the different sustainability characters of the place.

Lessons

Assessment scale

Numerical evaluation scale (0-5)

Requirements

Sustainable Design Studio is an advanced course suitable for 5th year students, dealing with principles and practices of sustainable planning and architectural design.The student will be employed in given design tasks that require the capability of integrating complex design issues at different scale levels. The work will be carried out partly in groups of about 5 students, partly independently. The course comprises lectures, studio meetings and a critic session. The course is compulsory for the degree students enrolled at the International Master's Programme of TUT and due to the limited enrolment a priority will be given for the degree students while the available seats will be filled in the order of signing up.