ICAD-ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN 2025-26
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THE NEW EMPOLI FC STADIUM
The course focuses on the drafting of a design proposal for the construction of the Empoli Football Club Stadium.
The project area coincides with the current Empoli stadium, which will be demolished, and the adjacent areas for the construction of integrated and complementary functions for commercial, socio-cultural, and hospitality services.
The project involves the drafting of a general organization of the area (master plan) and the development of the stadium and at least one adjacent architectural structure.
SYLLABUS
SCHEDULE
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
ASSIGNMENTS
TEXTBOOKS
• Textbooks. A selection of the main founding resources for Environmental Design class
LECTURES
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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