EMU-Sustainable Architectural Design with BIM

01/10/2022

Course Code and Title:

ARCH536 Sustainable Architectural Design with BIM

Course Schedule

Tuesdays, 09:30-12:20

Course Description:

The built environment has significant effects on global warming with high fossil-based energy consumption and carbon emission. In order to cope with this effect, the production of sustainable buildings is encouraged all over the world. Building Information Modeling (BIM) offers significant potential for effectively designing, modeling and analyzing these types of buildings. BIM software offers simulation/analysis environments that measure the performance of a building prior to construction. Using BIM-enabled energy, sun/shade, solar radiation, daylighting and wind analyses the performance of a building can be predicted beginning from the early stages of design. The design approach that improves design decisions using building performance analysis is called performance-based design or performative design. This approach feeds back the design process and helps improve designs for better sustainability results.

This course offers a theoretical framework containing performance-based design and physical environment control issues. The theoretical content is reinforced with software applications involving BIM-enabled sustainability models and building performance analysis. The relationship between design and building performance is explored using a simulation environment over examples. Students are expected to produce high-performance buildings following the principles of performative design.

Course Objectives:

To emphasize the effects of buildings on climate change
To illustrate the general principles of sustainable design and performative design
To show the use of BIM in the context of sustainability (7D modeling)
To explain the use of sustainability simulations and analyses in architectural design
To illustrate the relationship between design decisions and building performance
To offer software experience on the use of BIM-enabled sustainability analyses.

Course Teaching Policy:

There will be weekly theoretical seminars dealing with various aspects of architectural sustainability and performative architectural design. These seminars will be accompanied by in-class and take-home software exercises on energy analysis, solar radiation analysis, daylighting analysis and wind analysis.

This is a mainly online course. The university’s video conferencing software will be used for online seminars and software practices.

Students are required to create an Autodesk 360 account if they do not already have one. Students are eligible to sign up for a free account. Educational licenses of all Autodesk software listed above are individually available to students and educators for teaching, learning and research purposes for free of charge. EMU is also a qualified institution to receive access to free multi-user licenses to Autodesk software titles available through the Education Community for installation in classrooms or labs if a need arises. Students are encouraged to use their personal computers. The following software is used in the course:

Autodesk Revit for modeling
Autodesk Insight 360 for analyses
Autodesk Flow Design for wind analysis

BIM Capability Assessment Form

This form was prepared to understand your level of competency in BIM. It helps the course flow and subject selection in the practice sections.

Course Weekly Program

Week	Date	Topics	Notes/Assignments
1	04 Oct.
2	11 Oct.
3	18 Oct.	Introduction	Introduction Article 1: BIM-Enabled Performative Design
4	25 Oct.	Sustainable/Performative Design	Article 1 Discussions
5	01 Nov.	Conceptual (Mass) Modeling with BIM #1	Site and Building Type Proposal
6	08 Nov.	Conceptual (Mass) Modeling with BIM #2
7	15 Nov.	Conceptual (Mass) Modeling with BIM #3	Design Proposals
8	22 Nov.	Designing with Solar Access and Shadows: Sun/Shadow Studies	Design Proposals
9	29 Nov.	Understanding Energy Loads and Efficiency in Buildings: Energy Analysis Simulation Practice	Design Proposals
10	06 Dec.	Utilizing Sun as a Renewable Energy Resource: Solar Radiation Analysis Practice	Due: Sun-Shadow Analysis TW Presentations 1
11	13 Dec.	Converting Mass Models to Detailed BIM Models and Working with Detailed Models	Due: Energy Analysis
12	20 Dec.	Utilizing Sun as a Natural Lighting Source: Daylighting (LEED) Analysis Simulation Practice	Due: Solar Radiation Analysis TW Presentations 2
13	27 Dec.	Understanding Air Currents and Natural Ventilation in Buildings: Wind Analysis Simulation Practice	TW Presentations 3
14	03 Jan.	Final Project Presentations	Due: Pre-Final Project Report

Course Assesment Methods

Technology Watch (TW) Presentation: Students offer a short presentation and submit a three-page report on the existing or emerging technologies that have to do with variouse aspects of sustainabilty with BIM. Some of the possible TW topics are : Relevant Software and Hardware Developments, Sustainable Architectural Designs and Construction Projects, Life Cycle Assesment, Modern Sustainable Materials, Net-Zero/Hight Performance Energy Projects, Sustainable MEP implementations	%10
Proposals: Building Type, Design and Project Site Students submit several design alternatives that would satify the requirements of a high performance building. The porposals are jointly assesed in the classroom.Total construction area approx. 2000 m² + circulation spaces %35-40 ~2800-3000 m². The total area may be readjusted by +- %10 based on the project requirements. The project site area is about 5000-6000 m² .	%20
Analysis Works/Presentations and Interim Presentation/Report Students submit three performance analysis works including Energy Analysis, Sun and Shadow Studies and Solar Radiation.	%30
Final Report on Building Performance Analysis work This is the final outcome of the course. The final work should respond to the general visual and content expectations of the class. The report contains all the revised analysis works evaluated in th early stages.	%40
A minimum attendance of 80% (11/14 classes) is required.

Useful Materials and Links

Bennett, Jessica, “Wind Design Guide,” BBSC 433 – Architectural Aero Dynamics Course Notes, http://shorturl.at/gOSTY
Brackney, L., Parker A., Macumber, D., Benne, K. (2018), “Building Energy Modeling with OpenStudio: A Practical Guide for Students and Professionals,” Springer.
DeKay, M. Brown G.Z. (2014), “ Sun, Wind and Light: Architectural Design Strategies,” Wiley.
Garg, V., Mathur, J. Bhatia, A. (2020), “Building Energy Simulation A Workbook Using DesignBuilder,” CRC Press.
Guzowski, Mary (2010), “ Towards Zero-Energy Architecture: New Solar” Design, Laurence King Publishing
Hensen, J.L.M., Lamberts, R. Eds. (2019), “Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation,” Routledge.
Kolarevic, B., Malkawi, A. M. (2005), “Performative Architecture Beyond Instrumentality,” Spon Press.
Kubba, Sam (2016), “LEED v4 Practices, Certification and Accreditation Handbook,” Elsevier.
Kwok, A. G. Grondzik, W. T. (2007) “The Green Studio Handbook Environmental strategies for schematic design,” Routledge.
Kyrgiel, Eddy (2008), “Green BIM: Successful Sustainable Design with Building Information Modeling,” Sybex.
La Roche, Pablo (2017). “Carbon-Neutral Architectural Design,” CRC Press.
Lechner, Norbert M. (2022), “Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Methods for Architects,” Wiley.
Levy, Francois (2011), “BIM in Small-Scale Sustainable Design,” Wiley.
Smith, Peter F. (2005), “Architecture in a Climate of Change: A guide to sustainable design,” Elsevier.
Wilde, Pieter de (2018), “Building Performance Analysis,” Wiley.
Wing, Charlie (2013), “The Visual Handbook of Energy Conservation: A Comprehensive Guide to Reducing Energy Use at Home” The Taunton Press.

Others:
Autodesk Univ. Training Materials: https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university
Autodesk “Modeling masses” course, https://shorturl.at/EPS36
Autodesk “Crate energy models” course, https://shorturl.at/cju29
Autodesk Insight 360 site: https://insight360.autodesk.com/oneenergy