Urban Design Studio II

Course Information
TitleΕργαστήριο Αστικού Σχεδιασμού ΙΙ / Urban Design Studio II
Code02ΕΕ02
FacultyEngineering
SchoolArchitecture
Cycle / Level2nd / Postgraduate
Teaching PeriodSpring
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600002253

Programme of Study: PMS Perivallontikós Architektonikós kai Astikós Schediasmós

Registered students: 21
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSCompulsory Course2110
Class Information
Academic Year2023 – 2024
Class PeriodSpring
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours4
Total Hours52
Class ID
600247600
Course Type 2021
Specialization / Direction
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the students will have: • understood the function and the design principles of the environmentally friendly city and in particular of the urban public space, • understood the concepts of cohesive city, sustainable urban mobility, resources savings and minimisation of use of non-renewable energy sources in the design of the urban space and the building envelopes that define it, • understand the procedures of urban space production and the role of users’ participation in urban design processes, • practiced the application of the above concepts in physical design.
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Make decisions
  • Work in teams
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Design and manage projects
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Respect natural environment
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The Urban Design Studio focuses on the environmental dimensions of urban design at multiple scales of urban space, from urban strategies to the design of the built environment and urban open spaces. Delving into contemporary all-encomassing concepts such as urban sustainability and resilience, the environmental approach is not limited to the pursuit of energy savings or the protection of local natural elements and is not perceived as an exclusively technical issue. Environmental urban design is situated between urban and architectural design, with a clear focus on the material form of urban space. It is part of a network of processes integrating social, economic and cultural dimensions, issues of urban metabolism, urban governance and environmental policy. Climate change, the most recent manifestation of the environmental crisis, broadens and redefines the scope of environmental design, adding the imperative to adapt to new unpredictable risks. The Urban Design Studio evolves in two semesters. Students work on a real site situated within the boundaries of the densely built urban area of Thessaloniki. During the summer semester, the Urban Design Studio II focuses on the specialization of design in selected sub-areas of the wider study area, based on the choices, which were made at the level of strategic and urban planning.
Keywords
urban public space, natural landscape, climate, natural resources, environmental urban design
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Multimedia
  • Book
  • Software
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
  • Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Description
Use of computer in all of the above. Use of simulation software in teaching.
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures250.8
Fieldwork200.7
Reading Assigment401.3
Field trips and participation in conferences / seminars / activities150.5
Project2006.7
Total30010
Student Assessment
Description
The students receive grading through the multiparametric evaluation of the intermediate and the final presentation/delivery of the design study of the environmental urban planning/design project.
Student Assessment methods
  • Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
  • Εκπόνηση μελέτης (project) (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Ford, B., R. Schiano-Phan, E. Francis (Eds 2010). The Architecture & Engineering of Downdraught Cooling. PHDC Press Givoni, B. (1994). Passive and Low Energy Cooling of Buildings. Van Nostrand Reinhold Goulding, J.R., J.O.Lewis and T.C. Steemers (Eds. 1992 and later). Energy in Architecture: the European Passive Solar Handbook. Batsford for Commission of the European Communities Santamouris, M. (Ed. 2007). Advances in Passive Cooling. Earthscan Boardman, B. (2012). Achieving Zero Delivering Future-friendly Buildings. Oxford Littlefair, P.J. (2011) Site Layout Planning for Daylight and Sunlight. A Guide to Good Practice. BRE Press University Erell, E., D. Pearlmutter and T.J. Williamson (2010). Urban Micrcoclimate: designing the spaces between buildings. Earthscan Olgyay (1992), Design with climate. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, pp.91-100
Last Update
09-05-2024