Environmental Systems II

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Architectural environmental systems can be divided into two distinct categories: passive and active. Environmental systems II introduces those active architectural systems that are used to complement and enhance what passive systems accomplish toward the task of efficiently providing human health and comfort. Through a series of assignments, students learn the theory, components, and heuristics for sizing and laying out a variety of technical building systems including HVAC, power, artificial lighting, plumbing, fire protection, and vertical transportation. Just as importantly, the exercises help them to understand their design projects in a new way, integrating both passive and active strategies symbiotically into one unified, integrated approach to design. As preparation for a career in practice, this design approach is a component of the current professional standard of care, delivering resource-efficient architecture optimized for human health, safety, welfare, and enjoyment with negligible impacts on local ecosystems and the global climate. Prerequisite Course(s): Prerequisite: AAID 240 and one course in each group: Group 1 (ARCH 202 or DSGN 203), Group 2 (ARCH 324 or DSGN 221). Classroom Hours - Laboratory and/or Studio Hours – Course Credits: 3-0-3