Integration of Building Science in Architecture Education - The IMPAQT Experience

Abstract

(no german abstract) This contribution reports on a specific component of an ongoing joint effort, namely the project IMPAQT. In the present contribution, we focus on the challenge of integrating building physics and building performance simulation tools in architectural education. Note that material of building physics and building performance content is as such entailed in many architectural curricula. However, a number of shortcomings have been reported in this area. Specifically, at the outset of the IMPAQT project - and prior to the actual development stage of the new curriculum - a gap analysis of needs and shortcomings in current architectural curricula was performed. Thereby, different views and opinions from both practitioners and academics of current architecture education were collected and analysed. The resulting architectural curriculum aims at integrating social, urban, human, and technological aspects in a number of courses. In this paper we concentrate on the structure of the building technology module within the developed curriculum. The building technology module and its relationship to other thematic modules are described in detail. Subsequently, the content and implementation of the building technology courses is thoroughly discussed.

This contribution reports on a specific component of an ongoing joint effort, namely the project IMPAQT. In the present contribution, we focus on the challenge of integrating building physics and building performance simulation tools in architectural education. Note that material of building physics and building performance content is as such entailed in many architectural curricula. However, a number of shortcomings have been reported in this area. Specifically, at the outset of the IMPAQT project - and prior to the actual development stage of the new curriculum - a gap analysis of needs and shortcomings in current architectural curricula was performed. Thereby, different views and opinions from both practitioners and academics of current architecture education were collected and analysed. The resulting architectural curriculum aims at integrating social, urban, human, and technological aspects in a number of courses. In this paper we concentrate on the structure of the building technology module within the developed curriculum. The building technology module and its relationship to other thematic modules are described in detail. Subsequently, the content and implementation of the building technology courses is thoroughly discussed.