Adaptive Built Environment Lab
Education
Architectural Design Studio
ARC3320 & ARC4323
ARC3320: Architectural Design Five uses natural, native, green field terrains, and/or semi-adulterated sites within the Florida Landscape for this spatial inquiry, seeking consequence and specificity rather than abstraction and/or generalization.
ARC4323: Architectural Design 8: in the joint studio with the Rinker School of Construction Management, this design project addresses the enormous challenge of rapidly rebuilding communities that have been badly damaged and perhaps even destroyed by major storms. This studio focuses on the “advanced design” of modular housing in the Southeastern U.S.
ARC: Architecture
Integrated Project Delivery
ARC4323, BCN4787C, BCN4905, BCN5789C, BCN5905
The Integrated Project Delivery studio is intended to introduce students to the challenges and rigors of developing a philosophical position and research-based design process that is collaboratively accessible and elastic. This modality asks project participants with a variety of skills to both focus on their expertise while striving to bring that expertise to bear through discourse, understanding, and flexibility to allow the integrity of the project to emerge rather than be dictated.
BCN: Building Construction
Environmental Technology
ARC4620 & ARC6911
ARC4620: this course deals primarily with building physics and systems that help maintain minimum levels of health and comfort. The goals are to provide a/an: understanding of the basic principles of building physics; understanding of the basic principles of the environmental systems such as lighting, mechanical, and energy use; understanding of the basic principles that inform the design of building service systems such as vertical transportation, and fire protection.
ARC6911: this course investigates acoustical, thermal, and luminous qualities within the built environment, with an emphasis on building envelope and system design. The main goal of the course is to advance students’ knowledge of computational modeling in building technologies such as lighting and energy simulation.
Research Methods
BCN6036 & DCP7911
BCN6036: The course is concerned with the successful design, execution, and reporting of research within the construction disciplines. Students will become familiar with the research proposal development process and the statistical, computational, visualization, and presentation tools available to the researcher.
DCP7911: This course is designed to help PhD students navigate the dissertation process. It is also intended to provide opportunities for students to become critical and astute readers of other people’s research. DCP 7911 covers the basic elements of academic research, including (1) research formulation and design, (2) research approaches and methods, and (3) quantitative data analysis.
DCP: Design, Construction, Planning
International Sustainability Development
BCN1582
In this course, students will understand key concepts related to sustainable development worldwide, and gain familiarity with key environmental and resource issues and the effects on humankind if present population and consumption trends remain unchanged. Students will also learn the importance of sustainable development and related concepts including key international plans and sustainable community movements worldwide.