Browsing by Subject "Buildings--performance"

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Lecture 2: Life cycle assessment, certification and life cycle management
(2009-09-29) Kohler, Niklaus
In this lecture, Dr. Kohler examines how architects and policy makers evaluate the overall impact of architectural projects on the environment. Dr. Kohler emphasizes the complications that arise when we attempt to convert the holistic concept of sustainable development into quantifiable criteria for use in ratings systems. He discusses Life Cycle Analysis— which considers the resources consumed by a building project from the harvesting/manufacturing of the raw materials through the design and construction of the building, through the operation and maintenance of the building over time, and finally to the building's eventual demolition and deconstruction— and he explains how Building Information Modeling (BIM) is used to create a comprehensive estimate of the impact of an architectural project over its lifetime.
Lecture 5: Flows - railway stations
(2009-10-02) Kohler, Niklaus
Flows-- the transference of people, resources, information, and/or energy within a system-- has always been a crucial factor in the design of individual architectural projects, and to an even greater extent in the design of urban spaces. But as a field of academic study and as an applied design philosophy, the concept of flow is a fairly new development. In this lecture, Dr. Kohler looks at sustainability in archtiecture through the lens of flow theory. He analyzes various urban environments and individual buildings as flow systems to focus on their net environmental impact, and asks students to apply these principles to developing an input-output flow model for a proposed high-speed railway station.
Transit oriented development
(The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Center for Sustainable Development, 2009-12) Lang, Werner; Wang, Wilfried; Bader, Stefan
Students in the School of Architecture's Fall 2009 Advanced Design Studio on Sustainable Architecture were asked to design a railway station that would serve as a central hub for the Austin metro area's proposed high-speed rail service. This document is a compiled selection of plans, diagrams and virtual 3-D renderings created by the studio participants. As instructor and editor Wilfried Wang says in his introduction, these proposals address the project with "a boldness and realistic utopianism that is necessary to sustain the ensuing extensive and aggrevated public debates".