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BAEN2021: DIL: Sustainability and Performance
2025 unit information
This design integration lab provides the creative framework for students to explore how a design inquiry seeks to minimise the environmental footprint. The unit extends the study of architectural design as a process of investigation, critical observation, and experimentation. Through a project brief located in a rural setting, students learn to balance a range of complex issues inherent in the production of architecture including material, structure, program, site, history, and representation, with a view towards sustainable, energy efficient and low-carbon design. Such knowledge is developed through a suite of lectures and accompanying practical exercises to explore the performance-based design application of sustainable building principles and technologies, including passive solar, energy efficient, low carbon design and ecological materials to different aspects of the project brief. Using these exercises as a basis students will integrate sustainable, conceptual, programmatic, and technical concerns into their own persuasive architectural proposition.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Architecture |
| Credit points | 12 |
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Prerequisites:
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BAEN2011 |
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None |
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None |
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown / Darlington, Sydney |
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