This week we will be visiting the Pacific Energy Center. IF YOU ARE IN CEARA OR ERIC'S SECTION, you will need to attend another section. Available tour times are Tues 2-5, Thurs 2-5 and Friday 9-12. If you cannot attend one of these sections, please use the three hours you would use in section to review the following material.
The Advance Lighting Guidelines document has been developed under a variety of Public Goods Charge projects and currently resides at the New Buildings Institute. “The Advanced Lighting Guidelines: 2003 Edition includes instructional graphics and superior lighting design solutions for many typical building or space types, including private offices, open offices, conference rooms, grocery stores, big box retail, specialty/boutique stores, classrooms and gas station canopy lighting.”
I recommend the chapters listed below. The PDFs are available for reading online but apparently cannot be printed.
This week we will be visiting the Pacific Energy Center. IF YOU ARE IN CEARA OR ERIC'S SECTION, you will need to attend another section. Available tour times are Tues 2-5, Thurs 2-5 and Friday 9-12.
Tuesday
April 15:
Passive Cooling Design
We'll look at
strategies and examples for passive cooling from the
traditional to the modern.
LECTURE HANDOUT: 23
Thursday
April 17:
Case Studies of
Sustainable Design
Henry Siegel, FAIA,
Principal of Siegel & Strain will present to us
AIA's Top Ten Green Projects from last year.
LECTURE HANDOUT: 24
Section
FINAL PROJECT MID REVIEW.
Guest critics will be present. Please be prepared with parts 3 and 4 and a synthesis of parts 1 and 2.
We'll discuss effective design strategies concerning daylight and the use of physical models to predict the results and design accordingly.
LECTURE HANDOUT: 21
Thursday
April 10:
Daylighting and Energy Computer Modeling
We'll have a guest lecture on the computer tools that can be used to study and predict daylighting and energy use.
LECTURE HANDOUT: 22
Section
In section we will be performing Lab 6b and going over parts 1-5 of Design Project part 2. Parts 6-8 will be performed in section after Lab6b. Be sure to download and read Lab 6b before attending section. Download Assignments Here.
Readings
Readings: #23
Week 10
Welcome back. Your sundials were great. You can pick them up in section this week.
Tuesday
April 1:
Shading Masks
Using the LOFSAC, we'll go through the process of drawing masks to determine when a certain shading device will shade a window.
LECTURE HANDOUTS: 17-18
Thursday
April 3:
Light and Daylighting
We'll spend this lecture talking about daylighting and showing examples of different strategies for using it.
Section
In section we will be performing Lab 6a. Be sure to download and read before attending section. Download Assignments Here.
Readings
Readings: #21 & #22
Sun Wind and Light: #8-10, 29, 31-32, 35, 51, 54, 58, 70, 71, 78, 84-85, 89-101
Week 9
Tuesday
March 18:
Shading Analysis
We'll discuss
factors that go into our shading design on
buildings.
LECTURE HANDOUTS: 35-38
Thursday
March 20:
Shading Devices
Given the factors
described on Tuesday, we'll talk about different
shading devices and how they perform.
Section
In section we will review the sundial projects and go over the final project.
HW
Homework 5, the Sundial, is due on Monday, March 17 at 6pm in room 290
We'll talk about how to calculate the shadows necessary to design a sundial and discuss a few examples of creative sundials from inventors and creative folk around the world.
Thursday
March 13:
Shadow Casting and Solar Radiation
We'll discuss how you can use your LOFSAC to calculate shadows on surfaces (such as windows).
Section
Be prepared to present your results from Lab 5: Post Occupancy Evaluations
HW
Homework 5, the Sundial, is due on Monday, March 17 at 6pm in room 290
Readings: Reading 20, Review 7 & 11
Sun Wind and Light: Review #1, 3 & 16
Week #6
Tuesday
March 4:
Sun Angles & Buildings
We start back into sun angle calculations, and head towards talking about shading of buildings.
LECTURE HANDOUTS: Pg 27-30
Thursday
March 6:
Midterm Exam
We'll provide one sheet with equations, materials properties, and conversion factors. You should bring:
* A calculator (with trigonometric functions)
* A LOFSAC (available at the GSI office during office hours, if you still don't have one)
* Pens/pencils
Section
This week we will continue Lab 5, the first portion of your design project. Be sure to get an early start on the drawings that are due in section so you don't cut into your midterm study time.
HW
HW4 is due Tuesday, 3/4 at the beginning of class. Click here for discussion of this HW.
For this homework, you are encouraged to work in pairs and hand in one assignment per pair. You will need to do this assignment in the Architecture computer lab, so if you don't have CEDR computer access, find a partner who does. You may want to just print the answer sheet and refer to the main homework sheet on the computer screen.
Readings: Reading 19
Sun Wind and Light: Review # 2
Week #5
Tuesday
February 26:
Annual Energy Consumption
We talk about balance points further and the total energy consumption of a house on an annual basis.
Thursday
February 28:
Thermal Comfort and Psychrometrics
We'll discuss the factors that affect human thermal comfort in buildings and how your building design can have an affect.
Section
Lab 5: Post Occupancy Evaluation: It is important to study completed buildings to learn how to design better buildings. Observations of completed buildings help us understand building systems and behavior, how buildings are occupied, and how our design assumptions affect the people who occupy the buildings we design.
This week we will also be handing out the Final Project Brief. Be sure to read it over before section and ask questions.
HW
HW4 is due Thursday, 3/4 at the beginning of class. Click here for discussion of this HW.
For this homework, you are encouraged to work in pairs and hand in one assignment per pair. You will need to do this assignment in the Architecture computer lab, so if you don't have CEDR computer access, find a partner who does. You may want to just print the answer sheet and refer to the main homework sheet on the computer screen.
Here is a 140 lecture in 45 seconds. (Not a substitute for a real lecture!)
Week #4
Tuesday
February 12:
Thermal Properties of
Materials
More fun with
heat transfer equations! We'll talk about the
three different kinds of heat transfer in more
detail, and learn how to predict them in individual
materials.
Thursday
February 14:
Heat Flow Through
Materials & Assemblies
Taking our heat
transfer knowledge one step further, today we'll
look at how heat moves through combinations of
materials, such as wall assemblies.
Labs
This week we will be performing the thermal mass lab. Be sure to download it from the Documents Page and look it over before section
HW
HW3 is due next Thursday, 2/21 at the beginning of class. Click here for discussion of this HW
Here are some fun pictures from last week's 'molecule dance'.
Week #3
Here are some fisheye photos from last week's lab.
Tuesday
February 5:
Storing Heat: Building Materials and Thermal Mass
We'll take a
few-week hiatus from solar angles to look at heat
storage and transfer in buildings. In this
lecture we'll discuss ways of storing heat in
building materials.
Thursday
February 7:
Moving Heat: Energy Transfer, Buildings and Bodies
Today we will turn our attention to moving heat - how does heat move through a wall?
Labs
*Get excited for this week's section when
we'll take a tour of the Pacific Energy Center - a great
place to go to learn about all things 140. For
more information (and to see the list of free classes
and the free tool lending library) check out: www.pge.com/pec
HW
HW1 is due this week, 2/5 at the beginning of class. Click here for discussion of this HW.
HW2 is due next week, 2/12 at the beginning of class. Click here for discussion of this HW.
The preliminary research portion of the case study is due in section this week.
HW1 is due next week, 2/5 at the beginning of class. Download here.
Assignment: (doc - pdf)
Answer sheet: (doc - pdf)
Readings
Readings: Reading 5, Reading 6, Reading 7 Sun Wind and Light: Browse Building Groups, #26-45, Climate as Context, #1-7
Week #1
January 22 and 24, 2008
*Sections will be
assigned this week. Please keep an eye out for
e-mails from GSIs and make sure to attend one section.
Tuesday
January 22:
Introduction to Course
We talk about
the impact that U.S. buildings have on the
environment and people and review the topics that
will be covered through the rest of the semester.
Thursday
January 24:
The LEED Rating System &
Energy Codes
We take a look at
the LEED Green Building Rating System as an approach
for incentivizing green buildings as well as the
minimum required energy performance as dictated by
Title 24.
