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DESC9202: Water Sensitive Design
2025 unit information
As cities expand and weather becomes more unstable, the need to design buildings and neighbourhoods that use less water has become ever more important. This unit examines the emerging problems with water usage in the built environment and how design can tackle them. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to water sensitive design, drawing on insights from landscape urbanism, climate science, building services and sustainable architecture. The unit explores the changing valuation of water in the built environment and methods to improve ecological amenity and minimise net water use in buildings. By examining water sensitive strategies and technologies, students will be challenged to think beyond current approaches and apply their learning from this unit to demonstrate the way that design innovation can effectively address the challenge of water in the built environment.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Architectural and Design Science |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. apply water sensitive design frameworks to evaluate the built environment
- LO2. understand how stormwater can be transformed into a resource by integrated design and water sensitive technologies.
- LO3. perform manual design calculations and evaluate different design strategies.
- LO4. select water sensitive technologies for use in buildings and urban spaces.
- LO5. find and critically evaluate information on water sensitive design.
- LO6. communicate effectively about water sensitive design topics.
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Semester 2 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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