Sustainable Design: Larger Issues and Detailed Methods

This seminar looks broadly at sustainable architectural design, reviewing environmental issues, key documents, and larger-scale strategies and, then narrowly, at the current and emerging detailed methods used to support design development of sustainable buildings, communities, and cities. Devised to complement 633a, Environmental Systems in Buildings, this seminar reviews the evolution of the notion and need for sustainability; considers case studies of innovative community, urban, and regional-scale strategies of sustainable design; surveys recent sustainable design assessment methods, design guidelines, and standards; considers case studies of innovative buildings shaped by these methods; and provides a broad overview of advanced simulation methods used in the design development of these innovative buildings and communities. Limited enrollment.