Department: MSc in Sustainable Design and Built Environment
Module Description: The module prepares students for playing a participatory role in the practice of designing passive buildings. It demonstrates techniques for selecting strategies appropriate to climate and brief, and introduce passive methods of lighting, heating, and cooling buildings. It introduces simple manual ways for assessing the effectiveness of design decisions, as well as giving students opportunities for furthering their use of current environmental software. The discussion of strategies gives international context for a wide applicability scope. The module content is backed up by self-learning material for both manual and simulation techniques. Further support for the learning comes from the module final project assignment.
Corner, D. and Fillinger, J. (2017). Passive house details: solutions for high performance design. Routledge.
Durakovic, B. (2021). PCM-Based building envelope systems: innovative energy solutions for passive deign. Springer.
Kosirm, M. (2019). Climate adaptability of buildings: bioclimatic design in the light of climate change. Springer.
