Description
AS3123 | Env Systems II:
Sustainability and Complex Envelopes
This course focuses on advanced building systems and technologies. With a special emphasis on high rise construction, students investigate issues pertaining to vertical movement systems, advanced structures and their relation to surface and building envelopes. The course also covers other building services such as plumbing, electrical, security and fire protection systems and their effects on architectural design. Through a series of lectures, group presentations and individual assignments, current typologies and specific architectural precedents are researched and discussed, with a special focus on glass, curtain wall systems, sustainable, energy efficient systems, and technologies of construction and assembly.