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ARCHGEN 724 : Special Topic: Advanced Building Technologies

Postgraduate course

Project description

Buildings can be more complementary designed with information from the surrounding environment. Buildings can respond to dynamics of temperature, daylight and wind ?ow that ultimately generate better indoor and outdoor environments. Climate change and social changes are a?ecting the way we conceive buildings and we are looking more and more to design solutions that are able to respond to multiple changes over time. In contemporary architecture, this response is primarily achieved through the design of the building skin, otherwise called building envelope. The implementation of the building skin with form, mass and orientation is at the basis of the design of high-performance buildings. Students will investigate how adaptive technologies and materials can be used to improve building performances without neglecting the lesson learned from the past, also understanding how this topic is developing in di?erent contexts of the Asian and Oceanian side regions of the Paci?c Rim. A mix of global and local thinking (Glocal) will be used as driver of this research-led seminar which will also include the development of a brief conceptual design proposal. This seminar is highly recommended for students who are new to the University of Auckland and completed an undergraduate degree programme with less than 20% of its content devoted to building technology