B2280 - Integral Sustainable Design M

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will possess the basic knowledge necessary to address issues of eco-sustainable design—from the urban scale to the building scale, including the scale of services—through an integrated perspective that relates the social, economic-financial, and technical dimensions of an intervention to its impact in terms of environmental quality and the well-being of inhabitants. In particular, the student will have acquired the principles of the Circular Economy and Human-Centered Design, based on a heuristic approach to the operational implementation of design choices, following an experiential learning pathway focused on the reciprocal relationship between knowledge and practical know-how.

Course contents

Particular attention is given to environmental sustainability requirements through the development of environmental and economic impact analyses, supported by digital tools for the control and measurement of relevant variables.

The course program is structured in two parts: a theoretical component and an applied component.

• The theoretical lectures focus on interventions in the residential building stock, with specific reference to that of the second half of the twentieth century, adopting an investigative perspective centered on the comparison between refurbishment strategies and demolition-and-reconstruction approaches. Within this framework, special attention is devoted to environmental sustainability requirements related to building life-cycle assessment and to the relationships established with the surrounding context, here considered at the scale of the urban block.

• The applied component includes the use of digital tools to define performance levels, both in terms of energy efficiency and maintenance aspects, as support for determining the interventions to be adopted in the case studies provided by the teaching staff. The laboratory activities are carried out in groups, each consisting of approximately 4–5 students.

Readings/Bibliography

Riccardo Gulli, Tempo e materia Per un’etica del costruire, Fup, Firenze, 2024, pp.170. https://books.fupress.com/catalogue/tempo-e-materia/15990.

Teaching methods

The course sessions will mainly be structured with an initial part consisting of traditional theoretical lectures, followed in parallel by laboratory activities and in-class exercises, according to a learning pathway that combines the acquisition of conceptual tools with their application in design actions.

Students will work in the classroom, supported by the instructors and the teaching tutor during moments of discussion and project review, and will then continue the assigned work independently.

An intermediate presentation is scheduled at the end of the analysis and meta-design phase of the urban block under study. This presentation is preparatory to the subsequent laboratory work, which continues with analysis and design at the building scale. The presentation will take the form of a short oral presentation, supported by slides, delivered by each group.

In addition, several exercises are planned to assess the learning of the tools provided for carrying out performance analyses of the building envelope and environmental impact analyses of the proposed design solutions.

Assessment methods

The final assessment will consist of a single grade for the integrated course LABORATORIO DI GESTIONE SOSTENIBILE DEGLI EDIFICI M C.I., and will be determined by considering the following aspects:

• Assessment of the group project during the final project presentation at the end of the course (oral presentation supported by the display of drawings/boards). The laboratory component will be evaluated on the basis of the quality of the final project (coherence, feasibility, and completeness), the quality of the presentation, and active participation in the course.

• Individual assessment of the final written examinations (separate for the course PROGETTAZIONE SOSTENIBILE INTEGRALE and for the course GESTIONE ECONOMICA DEI PROCESSI).

The final grade will take into account the intermediate results (arithmetic average of the assessments, expressed on a 30-point scale).

Teaching tools

o carry out the analyses, students will work in parallel using multiple tools:

• Analysis of the existing building stock, based on data from georeferenced digital archives and assessments carried out by the research team.

• Calculation of the energy performance of the building envelope, through the use of the energy modeling software Edilclima EC700, available for download in an educational version (90 days):
  https://www.edilclima.it/didattica-e-progetti-di-ricerca/licenza-educational/

• Calculation of environmental impacts, at both the building scale and the scale of individual design assemblies (stratigraphies), using the software OneClickLCA, available for download in an educational version (365 days):

Office hours

See the website of Riccardo Gulli

See the website of Cecilia Mazzoli