This unit explores concepts of sustainable design in the built environment, spanning global perspectives to the local Australian context. Students are introduced to passive and active environmental design in response to Country, climate change, whole life carbon, and environmental rating systems. The unit examines the nexus between architecture and the city and offers a way to delve into the built environment as a set of terrestrial events, processes and systems framed through energy, ecology, culture and politics in designing place-responsive and responsible outcomes.

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Identify the key aspects of sustainability across scales and their relationship to climate change, outcomes for Country and health and wellbeing;
2. Understand operational, embodied and whole life carbon;
3. Interpret impact on the built environment through the processes and systems of construction social and cultural ecologies; and
4. Develop design responses to sustainable cities and architecture.

Graduate attributes

1. 海角社区 graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. 海角社区 graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. 海角社区 graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
2. 海角社区 graduates are global citizens - make creative use of technology in their learning and professional lives
3. 海角社区 graduates are lifelong learners - evaluate and adopt new technology
3. 海角社区 graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development

Prerequisites

11624 BE Digital Design Techniques 01: Fundamentals OR
8330 Digital Environments OR
11013 Pixels and Polygons OR
10188 Built Environment Technology 2

Corequisites

Must be enrolled in 290JA Bachelor of Landscape Design, ABB001 Bachelor of the Built Environment (Architecture), ABB002 Bachelor of the Built Environment (Interior Architecture) or ABB201 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours).

Incompatible units

11135 Real Time Environments

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

1. A working knowledge of 3D CAD modelling software (preferably Rhino3D).
2. Ability to work with and manipulate vector graphics using industry standard software (i.e. Illustrator).