Course syllabus

Course-PM

Link to the syllabus on Studieportalen.

Study plan

ARK350 Sustainable building: Competition lp1 HT22 (15 hp)

Course is offered by the department of Architecture and Civil Engineering

Contact details

• examiner  and teacher:  Walter Unterrainer   walteru@chalmers.se
• teacher    John Helmfridsson                            john@bomanarkitektur.se

Course purpose

ARK 350, Sustainable Building: Competition is a close to practice course, communicating and training skills and competences for participating in architectural competitions with a strong environmental and social agenda. The course is open for students of architecture together with students of engineering and architectural engineering, to develop a competition entry, the way how it happens in advanced practice.

Overall theme is sustainable transformation and resilience and the chosen location is Alafors, a village with 1850 inhabitants, 25 km from Gothenburg.

Schedule

see detailed hourly schedule under CANVAS files

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Course design

The course supports innovation and speculative ideas for a creative spatial program and building proposals, which are grounded on thorough investigations, different calculations and simple simulations concerning daylight, energy, green-house gases and global warming potential, water, life cycle costs etc.

The course is supported by workshops on daylight and energy/life cycle tools according schedule. You learn and exercise these tools for daylight investigations as well as for preliminary energy calculations and Life Cycle Assessment of your proposal.

The goal is designing an architectural project in one of the existing buildings, based on investigation and with support of these tools. To win a competition, a clear and comprehensible communication to a jury is necessary, so there will be inputs and support to optimize graphic and verbal communication.

The final delivery is an architectural project on competition scale (minimum 3 posters), connected to a technical report, which documents environmental calculations and data. Like last year and after the final presentations, a qualified external jury discusses all projects, and all groups can watch this close to real jury session.

The course starts with investigating and analyzing the buildings of Alafors spinneri in context to the village and there is an on-site visit. This investigation will be supported by local stakeholders and a former student, who shares his extensive research beforehand. The outcome will be programmatic ideas for an incremental development process of the buildings, with focus on needed housing.

ALL INFORMATION HAPPENS ON CANVAS.  THE LECTURES, DETAILS OF TUTORIALS LIKE GROUP ORDER, REQUIREMENTS ETC. WILL BE SPECIFIED BY THE EXAMINER ON CANVAS, THE WEEK BEFORE THEY HAPPEN . 

Changes made since the last occasion

The location of the transformation project has changed (2021 Väveriet in Uddebo)

Learning objectives and syllabus

•    to design sustainable architecture
  -    to visualize the performance concerning energy, environment and indoor climate in a building
  -    to synthesize programme issues into a competition entry
  -    to describe and analyse the basic features in sustainable building
  -    to design systems for good indoor climate and energy efficiency
  -    to cooperate across disciplinary boundaries in design processes.
• to prepare a professional presentation to a jury

Link to the syllabus on Studieportalen.

Study plan

Examination form

The project will be continuously discussed and assessed  during the whole design process, with a final presentation on January 11 2023.

The specific content of this presentation (the content of your posters and report) will be specified by the examiner after midterm crits in written form on Canvas, according to your proposal.

All deadlines for deliveries of workshops, midcrit and final crits are mandatory.