Architectural Design Studio I

Course Information
TitleΕργαστήριο Αρχιτεκτονικού Σχεδιασμού Ι / Architectural Design Studio I
Code01ΕΕ01
FacultyEngineering
SchoolArchitecture
Cycle / Level2nd / Postgraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter
CoordinatorVenetia Tsakalidou
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600002247

Programme of Study: PMS Perivallontikós Architektonikós kai Astikós Schediasmós

Registered students: 20
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSCompulsory Course1110
Class Information
Academic Year2025 – 2026
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours4
Total Hours52
Class ID
600289346
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 principles of design/redesign of building envelopes with environmental criteria, • acquired the skills of architectural synthesis with the environmental and energy behaviour of buildings as a key parameter, • become familiar with the process of quantifying the energy/environmental behaviour of building envelopes during the architectural synthetic process, • acquired the knowledge for a wider energy-functional upgrade of buildings and surrounding environments.
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
  • Respect natural environment
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The Architectural Design Studio focuses on the synthesis of buildings and envelopes with a particular emphasis on the environmental adaptation in its broader sense (integration in the urban and physical space, volumetric synthesis and scaling, orientation, processing of the envelope, surfaces, openings and filters of the envelope, layout of the spaces, elements of indoor climate control, synthesis and processing of closed, semi-open and open areas, materials and plantings). The design may concern the synthesis of a new building or the creative reuse and adaptation of spaces in an environmentally and socially responsible way. In theArchitectural Design Studio I, an assessment of the environmental and energy behaviour of the proposed architectural solution is planned based on bibliographic references, analysis of implemented examples and the use of simplified assessment methods. The Architectural Design Studio I is enriched with lectures on the strategies and the architectural and engineering systems required for the integrated implementation of environmental design, both in new implementations and in existing settlements and buildings.
Keywords
building envelopes, bioclimatic architectural design, energy retrofitting, thermal simulation
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Multimedia
  • Book
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
Computer use in all of the above. Use of simulation software in teaching.
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures250.8
Laboratory Work501.7
Reading Assigment250.8
Project2006.7
Total30010
Student Assessment
Description
Public presentation in pdf or ppt format, which will contain the overall proposal and specifically the following information in the proposed order: • main idea / concept, design principles, compositional gestures, environmental approach, circulation and functional diagrams, as well as 200 word text description, • masterplan drawing at a scale of 1.200 with an illustration of the street layout, adjacent building blocks, the inner courtyard, • plans of all levels, sections [one section at least intersecting the staircase/s], views at a scale of 1.100 (a graphic scale is strongly requested on each drawing), • characteristic section of the envelope at a scale of 1.20, which will summarize the environmental strategy of the proposal, the construction details and the choices of materials (indications of natural lighting, shading, natural ventilation, proposed interventions on the envelope and surrounding area, etc.), • photorealistic 3D renderings or physical model photos, focused on the building under study, which will show the relationship of the new building with the neighboring building volumes and the surrounding environment [street view and bird’s eye view], but also specific views of the interventions in the new envelope, as well as indicative views of the interior and exterior space and the overall interventions, • diagrams for documenting the environmental function of the building (recording of climatic data, solar/shading study, ventilation, natural lighting diagrams, diagrams of heating and cooling requirements, etc.). Each group's presentation will last 10 minutes. Afterwards, a discussion with the teaching staff will follow. All the above will be submitted digitally in A0 boards, and specifically in a vertical layout (portrait), according to a given layout, in 200 dpi resolution.
Student Assessment methods
  • Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Aureli, Pier Vittorio. “Toward the Archipelago.” Log, no. 11, 2008, pp. 91–120. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41765186. Accessed 26 Feb. 2024. Aureli, Pier Vittorio, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2011. Aureli, Pier Vittorio, and Martino Tattara. “Platforms: Architecture and the Use of the Ground.” E - Flux Architecture, Oct. 2019, www.e-flux.com/architecture/conditions/287876/platforms-architecture-and-the-use-of-the-ground/ Balmond, Cecil, Jannuzzi, Smith, Informal, Prestel, 2002 El Croquis 139,155,179-180: Sanaa, Sejima Nishizawa 2004-2008, 2008-2011, 2011-2015 Howes, Phil, Laughlin, Zoe, Material Matters: New Materials in Design, Black Dog Publishing, 2012 HADID Zaha, Monograph Zaha Hadid 1983-2004, ed. El Croquis, Madrid, 2004 HERZOG Jaques & DE MEURON Pierre, Monograph J. Herzog+ P. De Meuron 2005-2010, ed. El Croquis #152/153, Madrid, 2010 Ingels, Bjarke, Big, Hot to Cold: An Odyssey of architectural adaptation, 2015 LLINAS Josep, Monograph J. Llinás 2002-2005, Monografía ed. El Croquis #128, Madrid, 2006 MIRALLES Enric, Mongraph E. Miralles 1983-2000, Compilation ed. El Croquis # 30+49, 50 + 72 +100-101, Madrid, 2002 MIRALLES Enric - TAGLIABUE Benedetta, Monograph, EMBT 2000-2009, El Croquis #144, Madrid, 2009 MONEO Rafael, Monograph Rafael Moneo 1990-1994, El Croquis # 64, Madrid, 1994 MONEO Rafael, Monograph Rafael Moneo 1967-2004, ed. El Croquis, Madrid, 2004 OMA/ KOOLHAAS Rem, Monograph OMA 1987-1998, ed. El Croquis, Madrid, 1998 OMA/ KOOLHAAS Rem, Monograph OMA 1996-2006, # 131/132, ed. El Croquis, Madrid, 2006 Pallasmaa, Juhani, The eyes of the skin _ Architecture and the senses, John Wiley & Sons, 2005 Rahim, Ali, Contemporary Techniques in Αrchitecture, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2002 SIZA Alvaro, Monograph A. Siza 1958-2000, El Croquis # 68/69+95, ed. El Croquis, Madrid, 2001 SIZA Alvaro, Monograph A. Siza 2001-2008, El Croquis # 140, ed. El Croquis, Madrid, 2010 SIZA Alvaro, Monograph A. Siza 2008/2013, El Croquis # 168/169, ed. El Croquis, Madrid, 2014 SIZA Alvaro, Monograph A. Siza 2015/2022, El Croquis # 215/216, ed. El Croquis, Madrid, 2023
Last Update
23-10-2025