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ICAD-ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN 2018

iCAD- Environmental Design  @ Scuola di Architettura – Università degli Studi di Firenze | AA 2017-18

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• Lectures  
New lectures are available in LECTURES section

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• Class Schedule and recovery of the missed class   
Please take note that the missed class will be retrieved on March the 20th in the afternoon. For a detailed class scheduling check it out in the section “Schedule”

 


8 March – 20 March_ Class Registration 
After this period students are not allowed to enter the course

Art Prison Competition
Official website

Suggested reading in order to acquire an appropriate terminology and some theoretical foundations:
– G.Ridolfi, Digital Technology for Architectural Fabrication [link] [alt.link]
– G. Ridolfi Learning Design through Designerly Thinking. [link] [alt.link] [video]

SYLLABUS

SCHEDULE
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
ASSIGNMENTS

Credit #04. Final Assignment Evaluation. Architectural envelope detailed design and conceptual prototype fabrication

Assignment Guide #04-Final Assignment

Credit #03. Environmental mass optioneering in the early stage design and schematic proposal for architectural envelope

Assignment Guide #03-Environmental Mass Optionering

Credit #02.  Art Prison Design Competition discussion for development

Assignment Guide #02-not available

Credito#01 Project Briefing, Program and Architettural references for Art Prison Design Competition

Project Briefing, Program and Architectural references
Art Prison Design Competition > official website
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 – BIM&Performance_Simulation LINK


Lecture #02.1_Architectural_Brandscaping  LINK


Lecture #02.2_Space_Programming&Planning  LINK


Lecture #02.3_Modeling_Users’_Comfort  LINK


Lecture #03.1_Modeling_Climate_&_Place_to_Build/Climate  LINK


Lecture #03.2_Modeling_Climate_&_Place_to_Build/Place  LINK


Lecture #04_Environmental Mass Optioneering in the Early Stage Design  LINK


Lecture #05_Daylight Analysis  LINK


Lecture #06_Modeling wind and ventilation for human comfort  LINK


Lecture #07_Adaptive architectures  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


Climate & Comfort Analysis using Grasshopper / Lady Bug.  Patches to analyze climate data, sun geometry, winds and human comfort


Environmental Mass Optioneering using Grasshopper / HoneyBee. Patches and guides to run mass energy simulation


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