SYLLABUS
-- Fall 2007
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Description
Arch. 245. Daylighting is a graduate seminar taught in the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. The course is offered approximately once every two years and has an average enrollment of 12 - 15 students. Students work on projects as individuals and in groups.
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Architecture 245, 3 units
Daylighting
(formerly Analysis using Physical Models)
varies
Two 1-1/2 hour seminars
Arch.140, the equivalent of Arch.140 or instructor approval
Charles C. Benton
No final examination
9-12, including class
Evaluation based on completeness & quality of coursework and class participation.
Subject
Your author standing in Alvar Aalto's delightful window terminating the stack corridors at Mt. Angel Library..
This course brings physical models, photography, and the powers of observation to bear in exploring the role of daylight in architectural space. The course has four major objectives: (1) to investigate models as tools for building performance analysis, (2) to discuss qualitative issues in daylighting with attention to the predictive powers of models, (3) to learn the basics of photometrics and (4) investigate the role of perception in designing with daylight. In meeting these objectives, the course will interweave discussion of daylighting as an architectural element with technical information concerning the measurement, documentation and analysis of light. Architectural issues will include perception, vision, daylighting techniques, precedents and codes. Technical presentations in support of modeling will cover photometrics, data acquisition techniques, model photography and database analysis using microcomputers.
Student Assignments
The course is structured around a series of modeling assignments. The best way to learn modeling is by building and studying models. The exercises are sequenced to introduce increasingly complex issues using models built to represent both existing and hypothetical spaces. The construction of models as group assignments and the reuse of models will keep student time commitments to a reasonable level. The course will also include a series of experiential exercises designed to increase a designer's awareness of light as an architectural element (see the additional handout describing typical exercises)
Teaching Methods
Daylight provides striking geometric patterns in this temporary structure while incandescent lamps run uselessly overhead.
The
class will be conducted as a seminar and will mix lecture presentations by
the instructor with student presentations, class demonstrations, slide
presentations, project reviews and guest speakers.
The course will use the development of a specific office building
program as a vehicle for exercises and discussion during the latter half
of the class. Class presentations will cover the basic skills required to
complete student modeling assignments.
Reading assignments will be issued from the course bibliography.
There is no required text.Course Outline
This course outline is for the purpose of discussion during our first class meetings. The eventual course syllabus may vary in response to class composition, background and desires.
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