This design-based subject provides a first course in energy and thermo-sciences with applications to sustainable energy-efficient architecture and building technology. No previous experience with subject matter is assumed. After taking this subject, students will understand introductory thermodynamics and heat transfer, know the leading order factors in building energy use, and have creatively employed their understanding of energy fundamentals and knowledge of building energy use in innovative building design projects. This year, the focus will be on design projects that will complement the new NSTAR/MIT campus efficiency program.

Through three teacher-led demonstrations, students are shown samplers of real-world nanotechnology applications involving ferrofluids, quantum dots and gold nanoparticles. This nanomaterials engineering lesson introduces practical applications for nanotechnology and some scientific principles related to such applications. It provides students with a first-hand understanding of how nanotechnology and nanomaterials really work. Through the interactive demos, their interest is piqued about the odd and intriguing nano-materials behaviors they witness, which engages them to next conduct the three fun associated nanoscale technologies activities. The demos use materials readily available if supplies are handy for the three associated activities.

Furniture making is in many ways like bridge building, connections holding posts apart with spans to support a deck. Many architects have tried their hand at furniture design, Wright, Mies Van Der Rohe, Aalto, Saarinen, Le Corbusier, and Gerhy.
We will review the history of furniture making in America with a visit to the Decorative Arts Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and have Cambridge artist/craftsman Mitch Ryerson show us his work and talk about design process. Students will learn traditional woodworking techniques beginning with the use of hand tools, power tools and finally woodworking machines.
Students will build a single piece of furniture of an original design that must support someone weighing 185 lbs. sitting on it 12 inches off the ground made primarily of wood. Students should expect to spend approximately 80 hours in the shop outside of class time.
Preregistered architecture students will get first priority but first meeting attendance is mandatory. Twelve student maximum, no exceptions.

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Guia desenvolvido pela Mestranda Yara Santucci Barreto, sob a Supervisão e Orientação da Professora Doutora Fernanda da Rocha Brando Fernandez, como "Produto Final" do Mestrado Profissional em Ciências Ambientais, através do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Rede Nacional para o Ensino de Ciências Ambientais, PROFCIAMB, através da Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos, EESC, USP de São Carlos, em parceria com a Agência Nacional de Águas (ANA).
Este Guia de Princípios da Escola Sustentável tem por objetivo instrumentalizar e orientar gestores e a comunidade escolar, de forma compartilhada e conjunta, a detectarem nos respectivos domínios de sua instância escolar as adequações que se façam necessárias, de ordem física e também social e econômica, de forma que as ações de incrementos que desse instrumento se revertam favoreçam a transição das escolas para o conceito Escola Sustentável e, dessa forma, se alinhem à Educação para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (EDS). Vem elencar 282 princípios balizadores acerca dos aspectos até hoje contemplados por autores atentos há décadas ao tema Escolas Sustentáveis, abrangentes o bastante para assegurar uma transição real para a EDS. Trata-se de um repertório reunido de forma inédita como forma de obter o estado da arte do que é possível chamar de Escola Sustentável e que vem contribuir para o alinhamento das escolas às agendas internacionais já criadas.

The studio will focus on the district of Gaoming, located in the northwest of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) - the fastest growing and most productive region of China. The District has recently completed a planning effort in which several design institutes and a Hong Kong planning firm prepared ideas for a new central area near the river. The class will complement these efforts by focusing on planning and design options on the waterfront of the proposed new district and ways of integrating water/hydrological factors into all aspects and land uses of a modern city (residential, commercial, industrial) - including watershed and natural ecosystem protection, economic and recreational activities, transportation, and tourism.

In December 2023, Geeta Wahi Dua led a tour of Sunder Nursery in Delhi for CAORC OFDS participants. During the tour, she intertwined the history of the nursery with stories of the design elements, pointing out motifs and the meaning behind them.
Garden as Universe, Universe as Garden: What are the creative realms of gardens in contemporary India? Landscape architect Geeta Wahi Dua discusses curating the book Bagh-e-Bahar for the 2023 India Art, Architecture, and Design Biennale. The book celebrates the idea of a “garden” in the context of India. Dua shares selected gardens in India with strong attributes toward philosophical, environmental, and design aesthetics, which cover diverse geographies, manifest in multiple scales, and reflect the rich natural and cultural heritage of the country. UCF Arboretum Director Jennifer Elliot as moderator.

In January 2024, Ruchita Gupta, Ph.D. presented a lecture on Indian urban informal settlements to CAORC OFDS participants visiting the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi.
Informal Housing in Delhi: Policies and Case Studies: The growth of India’s population and increase in urban migration has amplified the shortage of affordable housing in India’s capital. How do government policies address the need for housing for the urban poor, slums and squatter settlements in the city of Delhi? Ruchita Gupta, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Housing, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, presents several case studies to provide a glimpse of the living conditions of the urban poor in these settlements. Moderated by FDS participant Amar Sawhney, Professor of Architecture, Building Construction and Interior Design, Miami Dade College.

This video has 100 Prompts for your students or participants to come up with 100 different ideas. You should ask each student to grab a pen & paper (ideally post-its) and have a different piece of paper for each idea. This video can be used to kick-off the Ideation State of Design Thinking (or any Ideation Session), using Brainwriting. I have used for both in-person and live-online education at University College Dublin.

I usually use 10 prompts in class - get a student to pick a number between 1 and 9 inclusive and then use the Chapters below the video to play from that number (e.g. someone shouts out seven so I play from 71)

Brainwriting is a solo exercise - write down all your ideas and THEN share with others before coming up with even more ideas. Research shows that this hybrid-approach (of generating ideas alone first, and then sharing with a team) works best. "Groups organized in the hybrid structure are able to generate more ideas, to generate better ideas, and to better discern the quality of the ideas they generate" (Girotra et al, 2010)

Gentrification and Queer Time was written as a response to the senseless murder of O’Shae Sibley, a Black gay dancer who was fatally stabbed in Brooklyn, New York’s Midwood neighborhood. This short introduces gentrification as a shift in the land costs and a shift in demographics. Queer time is introduced as a non-traditional time-system that is realized and appropriated by queer people for their survival at time.

Gentrification and Queer Time uses sounds from The Shrine, which is a music venue in Harlem, New York.

This course is an intensive introduction to architectural design tools and process, and is taught through a series of short exercises. The conceptual basis of each exercise is in the interrogation of the geometric principles that lie at the core of each skill. Skills covered in this course range from techniques of hand drafting, to generation of 3D computer models, physical model-building, sketching, and diagramming. Weekly lectures and pin-ups address the conventions associated with modes of architectural representation and their capacity to convey ideas. This course is tailored and offered only to first-year M.Arch students.

This is a project that follows the general PBL framework that can be used to help students master the concept of intermediate geometry. It was specifically designed to help students review the fundamental theorems of geometry involving lines, segments, angles, and basic shapes; use the properties of similarity and congruence to solve problems for geometric figures; master trigonometric ratios to solve right triangle problems; compare & contrast various geometric transformations and models; learn how to do geometric proofs and construct basic geometric figures; and understand the basic concepts related to the geometry of circles. Note that the project was designed and delivered per the North Carolina Math 2 curriculum and it can be customized to meet your own specific curriculum needs and resources.

This course will study the question of Global Architecture from the point of view of producing a set of lectures on that subject. The course will be run in the form of a writing seminar, except that students will be asked to prepare for the final class an hour-long lecture for an undergraduate survey course. During the semester, students will study the debates about where to locate “the global” and do some comparative analysis of various textbooks. The topic of the final lecture will be worked on during the semester. For that lecture, students will be asked to identify the themes of the survey course, and hand in the bibliography and reading list for their lecture.

Building adequate housing is a pressing issue worldwide. With close to a billion people currently living in slums, accommodating a growing population, and improving dwelling conditions is a critical issue for society.

This challenge cannot be solved with a one-size-fits-all approach. Every city, region and country demand their own housing models and prototypes. That’s why housing design needs to negotiate many aspects simultaneously to achieve sustainable urban environments and inclusive dwelling communities.

This course uncovers how social, economic and environmental factors are interrelated in the design of housing settlements. For this, the course dives into three key aspects that anyone involved in housing design should take into consideration: time, environment, and community. Each of these aspects will be examined through a specific design approach, respectively:

Incrementality: how dwelling environments should be able to accommodate growth and change through time.
Typology Mix: how design can be responsive to different patterns of inhabitation, aspirations and cultural backgrounds, creating inclusive dwelling environments.
Clustering: what methods and strategies can shape the association of dwelling units in order to create meaningful communities.

Students explore the use of wind power in the design, construction and testing of "sail cars," which, in this case, are little wheeled carts with masts and sails that are powered by the moving air generated from a box fan. The scientific method is reviewed and reinforced with the use of controls and variables, and the engineering design process is explored. The focus of the activity is on renewable energy, as well as the design, testing and redesign of small cars made from household materials. The activity (and an extension worksheet) includes the use of kinematic equations using distance, time traveled and speed to enforce exponents and decimals.

Portland Public Schools has developed this unit. Their hope is that ALL K-5 students will be able to access rigorous, standards-aligned science instruction that engages them in hands-on experiences and sense-making through student discourse. They want to encourage all students to be critical thinkers and lifelong learners. To that end, the science and ESL departments at Portland Public Schools, in consultation with NGSS writer Rita Januszyk, have developed units that are aligned with both Next Generation Science Standards and Oregon’s English Language Proficiency standards.

In this unit, students observe glass objects, identify properties of glass and other materials, and investigate changes of materials when they are heated or cooled. They test materials to choose one to best solve an engineering problem with water bottles.

Students construct a model roadway with congestion and apply their knowledge of level of service (LOS) to assign a grade to the road conditions. The roadway is simply a track outlined with cones or ropes with a few students walking around it to mimic congestion. The remaining students employ both techniques of density and flow to classify the LOS of the track.

The main content of this topic is to teach graphic design by focusing on common design methods.

The main content of this topic is to teach graphic design by focusing on the eight design methods.Original Resource: aurthor, Xiaoyun Lu title, Graphic Design: 8 Types of Graphic Design Creative Commons Attribution  website, https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/87204/overview. The OER was titled "Graphic Design: 8 types of graphic design", but only spoke on the common four. I researched all eight, added added my findings, and put them into a breif introductory infographic study tool. Additional reference, Cann, M. J. (2020, March 2). The 8 types of graphic design. 99designs. Retrieved February 11, 2022, from https://99designs.com/blog/tips/types-of-graphic-design/

The Digital Way, Graphic Design and Photo Manipulation with Adobe® Photoshop®, introduces the foundation and skills to become a graphic designer and how to manipulate photos. In this edition, you'll learn and engage in brand new lessons and projects that will discuss the fundamentals of graphic design and Adobe® Photoshop® CC 2021.LEARN KEY SKILLSYou'll learn some key skills to become an efficient graphic designer, from the Design Principles to properties of Typography. Plus, you'll learn Adobe® Photoshop® CC 2019, an industry standard and award-winning software that most, if not all, graphics designers must learn how to use and manipulate to create efficient designs.