Sustainable Design Policies & Regulation

Sustainable Design Policies and Regulations

This module introduces students to environmental issues and provides some in-depth understanding of the complexities and influences that built environment causes to the natural environment. The module intent s to instill environmental literacy and understandings of policies related to sustainable design and practices.

Assignment 1 (Research Article)

To instill the intentional learning ability in students by giving them themes in sustainability issues in architecture that can be explored and researched on and to gain in depth knowledge related to this module.

Assignment 2 (SDG to Architecture: Documenting global and local built environment responses to specific goal)

This project allows you to explore how architecture can provide the basis towards meeting several Sustainable Design Goals. Designer can provide basic ideas and proposal for regulation that makes it possible for sustainable communities. Working in partnership, designers can facilitate the open dialogue to provide solutions as a way forward. The 17 SDG goals define the challenges that need to be addressed to achieve a better and more sustainable future. Leaving no one behind, the world must move towards achieve these goals by 2030. This includes the built environment particularly the architecture practice that is associated with every goal, importantly not at aspirational level, but through realized (real life) buildings, settlements, cities, and strategies locally and globally. To evident this statement tangibly and to demonstrate
how built environment/architectural responses to these goals you are required to document realized cases of architecture, planning, and structures with the aim of understanding the Goals as they relate to architecture/built environment. Each one of the documented cases will form a basis to start a conservation on how the built environment can contribute to a particular goal.