ARCH 5611 - Environmental Systems I: Introduction to Sustainable Design

(CU-SBY)

Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Co-meets with ARCH 1611.

Staff.

This course examines the relationships between building, site, landscape and sustainability through the lens of ecology and systems thinking. Topics include: basic concepts of sustainability, energetic processes, climate, spatial data visualization, global warming, solar geometry, landscape processes, microclimates, site strategies and grading, building footprint & sustainable building metrics.