ICAD-ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN 2023-24

iCAD- Environmental Design @ Scuola di Architettura – Università degli Studi di Firenze | AA 2023-24

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The result of the course is now out in the book Render First. Design Later

EXODUS IN THE GREAT PACIFIC GARABAGE PATCH

The course proposes a project of radical criticism on the post-environmental condition in which architecture is defined as an experiential object of questioning.

The course is divided into two parts:

a first part dedicated to visioning to be developed through the speculative fabulation technique with the aim of producing a series of preview renderings of the final architecture;

a second part aimed at transforming 2D images into three-dimensional architectural models.

calendario didattico 23-24.pdf

ASSIGNMENTS

FINAL EXAM GUIDE

FINAL EXAM

Video Storyboard

Credit #02

Project Booklet

Credit #03

TEXTBOOKS

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

LECTURES

CLASS LECTURES

Post Environmental Age & Agent based Computational Design | LINK |

The Building Envelope | LINK |

Adaptive Buildings. | LINK |

Assembling and joining structures _LINK

Foundation. | LINK |

RESOURCES

•Videolectures (2020). A collection of prof. Giuseppe Ridolfi’s video-recorded lectures form 2020 iCAD class. ( !!! A sensible time lag in starting the video is normal)

•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

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