Multidisciplinary workshop on building design

Multidisciplinary workshop on building design

Giuseppe Desogus, Fausto Mistretta, Roberto RicciuGiuseppe Desogus, Fausto Mistretta, Roberto RicciuUniversity of Cagliari

Presentation summary

• Why an integrated workshop on buildings technical design

• Systemic workshop: more than the sum of its parts

• Last year’s themes

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• Last year’s themes

• Results and feedback

The building design process: from a linear to a circular approach

Circular and holistic


Linear and sequential

Targets of the multidisciplinary workshop

• Increasing student knowledge and skills on:• Detailed design of building envelope• Structural design• Building thermophysics

• Contributing to understand the correlations among architectural, structural and


• Contributing to understand the correlations among architectural, structural and energy/HVAC system design.

• First – hand experiencing the consequences that every choice made in one field has on the others.

Architectural engineering module

The module aims at improving skills of students in managing the relationship between

Architecture and Technology.

Particularly, the topics of theoretical lessons and practical workshop are:

The building materials and components market

Materials and constructive elements of opaque envelope;

Materials and constructive elements of transparent envelope;


Materials and constructive elements of transparent envelope;

The design of building envelope details;

Architectural integration of renewable energies;

Architectural integration of solar shadings.

Structural design module

The course aims to give the student the tools to set the structural design theme in terms of

safety and integration into the architectural organism, and acquire basics to understand and

use with confidence procedures aimed at new construction.

Particularly, the student will be prepared to draw up a structural project in all its phases:

design of building's structural concept according with its architectural form and with its

required functional performance;


required functional performance;

choice of structural materials according to the specificity of their mechanical behaviour;

definition of the shape and size of the structural elements with their connections;

evaluation of the applied loads;

identification of a mechanical model that takes into account the materials performance and

their evolutions in time and the manufacturing processes.

Building thermophysics module

The module provides to the students knowledge and skills on the thermal hygrometric comfort

prevision and evaluation, the design of HVAC and DHW systems and their possible supply by

renewable energy. The course program deals with the following topics:

Technical aspects regarding the thermo-hygrometric comfort in indoor spaces;

Physical characteristics of building envelope and HVAC systems.

Thermal load calculation, psychrometry and air conditioning.

Building HVAC systems components, energy transfer terminals, air treatment plants, air


Building HVAC systems components, energy transfer terminals, air treatment plants, air

distribution, regulation of power plants.

Renewable energy sources: solar energy, solar systems with flat collectors, solar thermal

systems, photovoltaic.

Interactions of modules

• Static scheme• Loads• Choice of materials

Architectural detailed design of the envelope

• Opaque envelope layers• Transparent envelope

components• Thermal bridges


Dimensioning and sizing of main structural

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Energy performance assessment and HVAC

sizing

• Thermal bridges

• Clash detection

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Multidisciplinary work on assigned projects (students divided in groups)

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Workshop themesM. De Renzi:

1. Quartiere Valco San Paolo: stellar towers.

2. Quartiere Tuscolano II: boomerang house.

3. Quartiere Tuscolano II: tower house.

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Workshop resultsTheme 1:

Example of architectural

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Workshop results


Workshop results


Workshop results




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Workshop results




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Workshop results


Workshop results

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Conclusions

The workshop has obtained positive feedback from the students: the yearly surveys carried out so far show a satisfaction degree above the average of the course.


average of the course.

Conclusions

Starting from the next semester a new module will be added. The use of Building

Information Modelling (BIM) will be introduced in the workshop and the

potentiality of the methodology will help to better manage the correlation among

architectural, structural and energy/HVAC design.


Thank you for your attention

Giuseppe Desogus [email protected]


Giuseppe Desogus [email protected]

Fausto Mistretta [email protected]

Roberto Ricciu [email protected]

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Multidisciplinary workshop on building design