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Architecture 509: Green Architecture
Spring 2007
Instructor: Chris Grech, CSI, RIBA. TA: Vinson J. Camacho
Course Description:
ARCH509 Green Architecture (3 cr.) Lecture
This course Examines the Predicament of contemporary architectural endeavor as an ecologically sustainable activity; a survey of vernacular passive "technologies" and an examination of current theoretical approaches to sustainability will define possible templates for practice. Case studies of State-of-the-art technologies and buildings will be used by instructor and students as teaching/learning vehicles.
Course Information:
Course Syllabus (updated 09.13.07)
Course Schedule (updated 09.13.07)
Waiver Release Form
Instructional methods:
Class activities will vary between formal instructor presentations, presentations by visiting speakers, discussions, student presentations and building visits.
Required Text:
McDonough, William and Browngart, Michael, Cradle to Cradle, North Point Press, 2002
Barr-Kumar, Raj. Green Arachitecture: Strategies for Sustainable Design Signature Press, Washington DC, 2003
Ecology and Design: Ecological Literacy in Architecture Education. AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE). (www.aia.org/cote_tides)
Fall 2007 Updates:
Readings:
(08-28-07 Kellert) (09-04-07 Yeang)
Powerpoint Presentations:
(09-04-07 1) (09-04-07 2) (09-04-07 3)
Assignment 1:
Research Topics(click)
Spring 2006 Updates:
Case Study 1 and 2 Research Paper/Presentation Grades (added 04-13-07)
Click for 2010 Imperative synopsis (added 02-22-07)
-Start thinking of Green Elements for Case Study 2. Please look at the Course Information Case Study 2 section below. Please email me your choices ASAP; so that we may discuss how you may proceed. (Added 02-09-07)
-Click here for PowerPoint Presentation example (Added 02-09-07)
-Click here for PowerPoint Presentation Passive Design Lecture-Thermal Mass (Added 02-09-07)
-Required Lecture and Exibition:Building for the 21st Century (Added 02-08-07)
March 20, 2007
Retailers Reap Savings by Cutting Energy Costs
Tuesday, 12:30 1:30pm
Retail stores with square footage up to 20,000 have much to gain when they reduce energy use by 30 percent or more, including cost savings and increased comfort for customers. Paul Torcellini, commercial building team leader at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, has worked on a diverse set of smaller retail buildings. He will share real-world examples in which energy conservation benefitted retailers, including a spa in Washington, DC, a visitors center/bookstore, a home improvement center, and a pet supply store. Torcellini will review the decision-making process that determined what efforts made sense, and provide insights on new technologies that enable retail buildings to achieve up to 50 percent energy savings. 1.0 HSW CEU
Free. Registration not required.
DC Environmental Film Festival 2007
March 19, 20, 22, 2007
As part of the DC Environmental Film Festival, the National Building Museum will feature three screenings of environmental films focused on the built environment.
Admission to each film is $5 for Museum members and students; $10 for nonmembers. Prepaid registration is required. Walk-in registration based on availability. Special rate for NBM members: $10 for all 3 Environmental Film Festival screenings. Sign up at www.nbm.org.
You are required to attend one of the lectures, attend the Green House tour, or view one of the films during the D.C. environmental film festival.
Please provide a one page synopsis on the lecture due on the Thursday evening class of the same week. Please email a copy of th synopsis and provide hardcopy in class.
-The 2010 IMPERATIVE: Global Emergency Teach-In Web-cast live from NY Academy of Sciences: Feb 20,2007 all are required to attend! (Added 02-17-07)
CASE STUDY 1 PRESENTATIONS:
(Added 02-24-07)
GREEN ARCHITECTURE
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
Spring 2007
Project I
Green Building Analysis
CLICK BELOW FOR PDF FILES
Pearl River Tower
Azam, Mohammad
British Pavilion
.. Bates, Lindsay
Gannett/USA Today Corporate headquarters
. Buchbauer, Joseph
The Dutch Pavilion
. Castaneda, Leticia
The Solaire, 20 River Terrace...
.... Carolan, Katie
Inland Empire utilities Agency
Easterlin, William
The Solaire, 20 River Terrace
... Edmonds, Carla
Centre International Rogier
.... Estep, Cory
30 St Mary Ave
Farahani, Elmira D.
EDITT Tower
..................... Feijoo, Manuel
Reuter Building 3 Times Square
................. Foley, Patrick
Commerzbank Headquarters
........ Jacks, Phil
The Genzyme Center
........................... Korowajczuk, Leonardo
Gap Office Building, 901 Cherry Street
...... Leopold, Fritz H.
London City Hall
Lowry, Chris
Artists For Humanity Epi Center
............ McKernan, Ana
The Solaire, 20 River Terrace
............. Parke, Heather
Edificio Malecon
... Pazmorales, Antonio
30 St Mary Axe
... Plavcan, Gregory J.
San Francisco Federal Courthouse
............ Potterfield, Eric W.
Seven World Trade Center
........... Ripp, Veronica
The Hearst Tower
............. Souadi, Oussama
The Phillip Merrill Enironmental Center
....... Valesky, Paul
Course Information:
Please click on any of the underlined words below as needed:
Course Overview:
For much of history, architecture was designed in harmony with nature. Buildings were made of locally available materials, and were largely geomorphous in form, hugging the hills and valleys. Even in their greatest monuments and largest civic and religious projects, the ancients oriented their buildings to face the warming rays of the sun in winter, and to take advantage of cooling breezes in the summer.
These time-honored principles were largely ignored during much of the twentieth century as technological expertise grew exponentially. Architectural design, increasingly divorced from climate and context, became largely dependent on form-making.
Sensitive architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Fay Jones were the exception, exspousing organic architecture, "of the hill and not on the hill". Wright's Taliesin West and Jones' Thorncrown Chapel are classics of context-correct design.
Triggered initially by the energy crisis of the 1970's, an increasing environmental and ecological awareness has spawned a series of energy-conscious design initiatives.
Part One of the course draws on historic precedent and vernacular architecture to provide an overview of sustainable design principles around the world.
Part Two explores the latest applications of sustainable design principles by studying two large prototypical civic buildings presently under design and construction: the Pittsburg Convention Center and the new US Courthouse in Denver.
The principles of sustainability thus gleaned can be used to create development initiatives that can re-shape our cities, to influence the fundamentals of design education, to affect legislation and regulatory venues, and to reach the greatest numbers through universal applciation.
At its most basic, sustainable design codifies vernacular traditions that were based on commonsense responses to climate. Our primary responses to building design, site and program, should begin with these fundamental principles, progressively layered with our increasing knowledge of ecology and the environement.
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Please click on weblinks:
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
National Building Museum: The Green House program.
http://www.nbm.org/Exhibits/greenHouse2/greenHouse.htm
U.S. Department of Energy Information Resource tool
http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/info/design/integratedbuilding/passive.html
U.S. Green Building Council LEED Information
http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=19
Barr Architects
http://www.barrarchitects.com/
The content of this website and its subsidiary webpages was either developed and written by the course faculty, or was submitted by others in response to these contents or the requirements of the course. The School does not warrant the accuracy of the information contained herein. Further, the website does not necessarily reflect the attitudes of the School of Architecture of The Catholic University of America or of American architects in general.
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