As Buildings engage their environment, Understanding the impact of that relationship between a building and its climatic context is critical to developing is vital to understanding how to develop a built environment that affects positive change. We need to understand the nature of the environment we are building in so that we can respond in an intentional way. As we orchestrate a relationship between the built form and its environment, we affect both future inhabitants and the ecology of that place. How we define the relationship can be built upon how we understand the nature of the environment we build in, and what techniques of making we use to engage the landscape. The Design Studio poses a series of problems about building in space, outside of an urban context, each related project providing a developing insight into the ways that architecture can affect resiliency, sustainability, and environmental stewardship through design. This course will be closely coordinated with the Environmental Technology course, and could be taught by same faculty. Design Studio III is a 3 credit course offering; the connection to Environmental Technology creates a connection between research, analysis and design that strengthens a the students’ ability to utilize research tools in their design development. material science---particularly thermal and spectral properties of materials---as a design tool and as a design driver. Together, DS 3 and Environmental Technology comprise 6 credits.

As Buildings engage their environment, Understanding the impact of that relationship between a building and its climatic context is critical to developing is vital to understanding how to develop a built environment that affects positive change. We need to understand the nature of the environment we are building in so that we can respond in an intentional way. As we orchestrate a relationship between the built form and its environment, we affect both future inhabitants and the ecology of that place. How we define the relationship can be built upon how we understand the nature of the environment we build in, and what techniques of making we use to engage the landscape. The Design Studio poses a series of problems about building in space, outside of an urban context, each related project providing a developing insight into the ways that architecture can affect resiliency, sustainability, and environmental stewardship through design. This course will be closely coordinated with the Environmental Technology course, and could be taught by same faculty. Design Studio III is a 3 credit course offering; the connection to Environmental Technology creates a connection between research, analysis and design that strengthens a the students’ ability to utilize research tools in their design development. material science---particularly thermal and spectral properties of materials---as a design tool and as a design driver. Together, DS 3 and Environmental Technology comprise 6 credits.