Designing for Sun, Wind, & Light: Strategies for Buildings

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Designers will tell you that the heart of a project revolves around the Design Strategies used in the project. Designers will find this course most useful for formulating a basic design concept for their project. This 4-hour interactive online course focuses on strategies at the building scale that deal with single buildings and their major components, rooms, and courtyards. This course is broken into two sections: Organizations and Size, Shape, and Orientation.

This course contains downloadable PDF files which require Adobe Acrobat.

This course includes a multiple-choice test at the end of each section.

Objectives

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, you will be able to:

Understand how to maintain and extend the seasons of outdoor thermal comfort.
Explain how to protect the building from high sun with layered shades.
Explain how to build clustered rooms to reduce skin area in a building to control heat loss or gain.
Describe how do permeable buildings combine open plans and sections for ventilation for cooling during warm periods.
Be able to describe how do east-west plan arrangements increase winter sun-facing skin available to collect solar radiation for heating.
Describe how you can borrow daylight from other rooms without causing discomfort from the heat from sunlight.
Be able to describe the rooms which can be zones within buildings to use or reject sources of internal heat gain.
Explain what are stratification, buffer, and daylight zones and how it relates to heat and discomfort in rooms.