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December 21, 2022
Duration:
Unlimited Duration
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This course includes:
Unlimited Duration
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Certificate of completion
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Description
The course aims at providing a fundamental understanding of the physics related to buildings and to propose an overview of the various issues that have to be adequately combined to offer the occupants a physical, functional and psychological well-being.
Students will be guided through the different components, constraints and systems of a work of architecture. These will be examined both independently and in the manner in which they interact and affect one another.
Course Curriculum
- Introduction Unlimited
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- Outside environment and human needs Unlimited
- Heat flow Unlimited
- Air flow Unlimited
- Humid air Unlimited
- Thermal comfort and insulation Unlimited
- Condensation and moisture Unlimited
- Climate-responsive design Unlimited
- Passive controls, thermal balance Unlimited
- Forms of energy and active heating/cooling Unlimited
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- Physics of light, photometry Unlimited
- Vision and colors, visual comfort Unlimited
- Designing with natural light Unlimited
- Electric lighting Unlimited
- Sound and hearing Unlimited
- Noise insulation Unlimited
- Room acoustics Unlimited
- Construction principles, foundations Unlimited
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