ICAD-ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN 2025-26

iCAD- Environmental Design @ Scuola di Architettura – Università degli Studi di Firenze | AA 2025-26

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CREDIT#01

23 March | Files Upload Credit #01 – Case Study Stadium Roof

26 March | Credit# 01 Discussion in Class

For Class Schedule, Assignments, Lectures and any other Resources and News, please, refer to the specific sections of this web page.

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

Download (SYLLABUS_ENV_2017-18.pdf, 309KB)

SCHEDULE

Goto Class Schedule at this LINK

ACADEMIC CALENDAR

Academic Calendar 2025-26 HERE

ASSIGNMENTS

TEXTBOOKS

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

LECTURES

CLASS LECTURES

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

Lecture #01 – BRIEF | Post Environmental Age & Agent based Computational Design Slideshow videolezione

Lecture #02 – BRIEF | Project Mission & Space Program Slideshow videolezione

Lecture #03 –BRIEF | Comfort Modeling & Environmental Users Slideshow videolezione

Lecture #04 – BRIEF_Climate Based Design Strategies Slideshow videolezione

Lecture #05 – BRIEF_Site Assessment Slideshow videolezione

Lecture #06 – CONCEPT_Architectural Mass & Layout Optioneering Slideshow videolezioni low-res ita high-res eng

Lecture #07 – SCHEME_Passive Design Strategies and Devices. Part1 Slideshow videolezione

Lecture #07 – SCHEME_Passive Design Strategies and Devices. Part2 Slideshow videolezione

Lecture #08 – DETAIL_Adaptive Buildings. Slideshow videolezione

Lecture #09 – DETAIL_Daylight. A conflictual relationship between thermal and visual comfort. Slideshow

Lecture #10 – DETAIL_Daylight. Computational Simulation

-Revit. videolezione (dal punto 1:42:30) > password: 8XxUQESS

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OTHER LECTURES

The Building Envelope LINK

Assembling and joining structures _LINK

Foundation. Slideshow Excerpt from G. Ridolfi’s Structural Design Lab class LINK

RESOURCES

•Carbon Optioneering. Evaluating Alternatives Through CO2 Emission Analysis (Video Tutorial_in italian)

•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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