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ICAD-ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN 2020

iCAD- Environmental Design  @ Scuola di Architettura – Università degli Studi di Firenze | AA 2019-20

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NEWS

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01 July_
– FINAL FILES SUBMISSION: 7.july.2020
– FINAL FILES REPOSITORY  where to upload ALL the files for the final Exam: LINK
Please, put your files in a group folder with the members’ name
List of files
n° 10 A0 boards  -All Professors
n° 1 A4 300 dpi booklet -prof. Ridolfi

 -VIDEO ANIMATION EXAMPLES for the CONSTRUCTIVE MODEL: LINK

 


02 June_ 
Credit #04 Architectural Envelope Definition   is scheduled at June the 16th. Please, upload your files  by 12 noon of Monday 15th. Information  for this credit is avalable in the assigment guide section

06 May_ 
Credit #03 Individual Conceptual Design is scheduled at May the 19th. Please, upload your files  by 12 noon of Monday 18th. Next Class will be dedicated to desk review. If you prefer for a better review it is highly recommended to submit your ideas one day before uploading files on dropbox.

 


29 April_ 
Due to Covid-19 the Class  Schedule has been updated. Check it out for next Credit presentation.

12 April_ 
Assignment Guide -Credit 02  is now available in the Assignments section.
Considering the difficulties of this period  this credit deadline is moved to  the 21 of April. As a consequence class schedule is reorganised  in the following dates:
14 April- Credit 02 Online review
20 April Dropbox files upload
21 April- Credit o2 Slide Show Students’ presentation

27 March_ 
For those who have not yet installed LadyBugs and HoneyBee or have encountered problems, please refer to the link.

24 March_ 
On line Credit review at 14:45. An Invitation will be provided  at 14:30.
Assignment  evaluations  are available  in Grades Section

10 March_ CLASS
This lesson   will  held in streaming at 13:45 10 March 2020. 
Invitation from 13:45 by email  
To Join the Classroom use Meet from Google Suite and Chrome or Firefox as a browser.
A video tutorial on Meet is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcv44DzPkyw

 

 


• Welcome to Mailab    
Considering this website contains some restricted areas (including the present class course page) students are required to subscribe through  the login button. After two weeks this page will  not anymore accessible without credentials. Students  who are already members of Mailab do not have to register .

05 March_ COURSE OVERVIEW
For this unit students are required to read:
1– the SYLLABUS and the Class SCHEDULE located in the side sections.
2 – the following selected reading in order to acquire  theoretical foundations:
      • G. Ridolfi, A. Saberi, Computational Intelligences in the Post Environmental Design. Examples from Mailab  [LINK] [ALT LINK]
       • G. Ridolfi, A. Saberi, Learning Design through Designerly Thinking. [LINK] [ALT.LINK] [VIDEO]
       • G.Ridolfi, Digital Technology for Architectural Fabrication [LINK] [ALT.LINK]
Students are also required to  have a look the four textbooks downloadable from the section TEXTBOOKS

SYLLABUS

SCHEDULE
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
ASSIGNMENTS

Credit #05. Model Fabrication & Final Booklet

Final Presentation

Credit #04.  Architectural Envelope Proposals

Schematic Design

Credito#03 Architectural Passive Devices

Designing in the Place

Credit #02.  Mass & Lay-out Optioneering

Project Optioneering

Credito#01 Project Briefing: Conceptual Design on Environmental Report

Project Briefing
TEXTBOOKS

• Textbooks. A selection of the main founding resources for Environmental Design class

LECTURES

CLASS LECTURES

Readinge #00 –  Digital Technology for Architectural Fabrication [LINK] [alt.link]


Lecture #01 – BRIEFING. Conceptual Design on Environmental Report LINK


Lecture #02_Environmental Mass Optioneering in the Early Stage Design  LINK


Lecture #03_Passive Design Strategies and Devices. Part1  LINK


Lecture #04_Passive Design Strategies and Devices. Part2  LINK


Lecture #05_Natural Daylight Design Part2  LINK


OTHER LECTURES

The Building Envelope LINK


Assembling and joining structures _LINK

RESOURCES

Climate Consultant.  Free, easy-to-use, graphic-based computer program that displays climate data in dozens of ways useful to architects, builders, contractors, and homeowners, including temperatures, humidity, wind velocity, sky cover, and solar radiation in both 2-D and 3-D graphics for every hour of the year in either Metric or Imperial units. Climate Consultant 6.0 also plots sun dials and sun shading charts overlaid with the hours when solar heating is needed or when shading is required. The psychrometric chart analysis shows the most appropriate passive design strategies in each climate, while the new wind wheel integrates wind velocity and direction data with concurrent temperatures and humidities and can be animated hourly, daily, or monthly.atches to analyze climate data, sun geometry, winds and human comfort


How to install LadyBug & HoneyBee. List of links addressing guides and video tutorials explaining how to install LadyBug and Honeybee libraries on Grasshopper


Environmental design Resources.  Examples, references and Grasshopper patches  to analyze climate, human comfort, and to run mass energy simulation and daylight.


Daylight Simulation with HoneyBee. Patches and  links to run daylight simulation


Assignment Examples Lab Ambientale 2017-18. Students’ examples about Climate report, Place inventory, Space Program, and Environmental Mass Optioneering


Assignment Examples Environmental Design 2016-17 Environmental201 Students’ examples about Weather report,  Site Examples, Demolition & Excavation, Foundation



Other publications. Resources collected in «Smart & Green for Responsive Architecture» Issue stack.


• Pinterest.  Pins on different matter organized in Pinterest


Previous students’ works. A slide show of some examples.


GRADES