Materials

Catalog description

This course, ARCH 757 of the Master of Science of Architecture, Health and Design program, examines materials' role on our health from both a systemic perspective and an embodied perspective, and offers students the framework, tools, and skills to develop materials and analyze material processes and systems in order to advance personal and social wellbeing. In the seminar students will learn, analyze, research, displace and investigate circular paradigms in materiality applied to architecture, as a regenerative material system which should lead to more resilient ecosystems, reducing the embodied carbon footprint, saving natural resources and ultimately promoting health and wellbeing, through reuse, repair and recycling.This seminar will focus on material properties, behavior and characteristics through environmental simulation and optimization, structural simulation and optimization, studies the properties of material composites, hybrid materials, and polymers. Examined from an embodied perspective, materials, and the environments they compose, have properties that promote or inhibit certain kinesthetic and cognitive behaviors, as well physiological and affective responses.