COURSE INFORMATION Course Title: DIRECTED STUDIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

Code	Course Type	Regular Semester	Theory	Practice	Lab	Credits	ECTS
ARCH 522	D	8	3	0	0	3	6

Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature)	NA
Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	Endrit Hoxha
Second Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	NA
Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours:	NA
Language:	English
Compulsory/Elective:	Elective
Classroom and Meeting Time:
Course Description:	Acquisition of knowledge, attitudes and skills required to pursue advanced research studies in the context of technological mediation in architectural design and the built environment. The course will specifically focus on an in-depth examination of computational methods and tools that aim to support the synthesis, representation, visualization and collaboration in architectural design. The students are required to be engaged in substantive reading, development and research towards the production of a scholarly work.
Course Objectives:	Analysis of sustainability of materials and buildings with the help of life cycle assessment method. Fundamental concepts: Sustainability, life cycle assessment, energy efficiency.

COURSE OUTLINE

Week	Topics
1	Introduction, Definition of sustainability, Life cycle assessment (E-LCA, C-LCA, S-LCA). Eco-materials, eco-building, energy efficiency
2	Resources issues. Life cycle assessment: Past-Present-Future. Toward sustainable solutions.
3	LCA of materials (methodology and application), Cradle-to-grave (production-use-end of life) and cradle-to-cradle
4	LCA of buildings. Embodied/operational impacts.
5	Use of building, general introduction to energy evaluations. Labels
6	Energy evaluations. Passive and active building systems.
7	Midterm exam
8	Passive and active building systems.
9	Project (residential building/high -rise building)
10	Project (residential building/high -rise building
11	Project (residential building/high -rise building)
12	LCA of neighborhoods.
13	Sustainable adaptive reuse of the existing building stock.
14	Design of intelligent building. Design for reuse.

Prerequisite(s):
Textbook:	Kilbert, C.J. 2013. Sustainable construction: Green Building Design and Delivery. Third edition. Wiley. Morel, N., Gnansounou, E. 2008. Energetique du batiment. EPFL. EN-15804. 2011. Sustainability of construction works. Environmental product declarations. Core rules for the product category of construction products EN-15978. 2012. Sustainability of construction works. Assessment of environmental performance of buildings. Calculation method. Guinee, J.B., Heijungs, R., Huppes, G., Zamagni, A., Masoni, P., Buonamici, R., Ekvall, T. and Rydberg, T., 2010. Life cycle assessment: past, present, and future.
Other References:
Laboratory Work:
Computer Usage:
Others:	No

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1	Ability to explain the understand the concepts of sustainability, life cycle assessment of building
2	Ability to explain energy efficiency of the building and understand different labels
3	Ability to evaluate environmental impacts of building.
4	Ability to develop eco-projects, and to apply knowledge at neighborhood scale

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES (Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution)

No	Program Competencies	Cont.
Integrated second cycle study program in Architecture (5 years) Program

COURSE EVALUATION METHOD

Method	Quantity	Percentage
Midterm Exam(s)	1	30
Project	1	30
Final Exam	1	40
	Total Percent:	100%

ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)

Activities	Quantity	Duration(Hours)	Total Workload(Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	16	3	48
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	16	5	80
Mid-terms	1	3	3
Assignments	1	16	16
Final examination	1	3	3
Other			0
Total Work Load:			150
Total Work Load/25(h):			6
ECTS Credit of the Course:			6