ARCH 140 Energy and Environment Department of Architecture U C Berkeley Course Syllabus Spring Semester 2006 Tuesday Thursday 11 00 12 30 100 Lewis Notes on Course Assignments Cris Benton Gail Brager Homework HW assignments are due at the beginning of class in the lecture room on the day noted except for 6 Explorations EX are done individually outside of section and are turned in during section for presentation and or discussion Design Project exercises are components of the Final Project done by your team and are turned in during section for presentation and or discussion Labs are done entirely in section usually by groups LECTURE REQUIRED READINGS ASSIGNMENTS SECTION DATE TOPIC 140 READER HOMEWORK Due in class AGENDA Tuesday Jan 17 Introduction to Course 1 3 Energy Introduction Energy Buildings Sustainability the Environment 1 4 Fundamentals of Energy Thursday Jan 19 Site Solar Analysis 2 5 Tuesday Jan 24 Solar Geometry Site Shading 3 6 Solar Transit 7 Shading Masks Shadow Casting Thursday Jan 26 Storing Heat Building Materials Thermal Mass 4 8 Intro to Solar Geometry Sun Wind Light Strategy s Browse Building Groups 26 45 week 1 Assigned HW 1 Solar Site Analysis due week 3 Tu 1 31 OTHER Due in section Assigned EX 1 Intro to course section Building Case Studies types of assignments variable due date grading etc throughout semester Framing the Arch 140 perspective Solar Site Analysis Climate as Context 1 7 LAB Review solar angles LAB 1 Solar Site Analysis Mapping sun shade patterns on a site A Building s 18 19 60 63 68 Energy Balance 72 76 77 79 83 88 104 week 2 Tuesday Jan 31 DUE HW 1 Solar Site Analysis Assigned HW 2 Thermal Storage due week 4 Tu 2 7 Moving Heat 9 Heat Transfer Energy Transfer Mechanisms Buildings Bodies 5 10 Thermal Delight HW 1 DUE Thursday Feb 2 Thermal Properties of Materials 6 11 Notes on Radiation 72 76 79 81 84 88 97 101 Assigned EX 2 Storing Moving LAB 2 Thermal Thermal Comfort Log Heat Mass Thermal mass due in section week 6 Discuss Heshong diurnal temperature experiment Reading experiential qualities in buildings EX 1 Discussion continued in weeks to follow week 3 http arch ced berkeley edu courses arch140 ARCH 140 SYLLABUS page 1 of 5 ARCHITECTURE 140 Syllabus Spring 2006 LECTURE REQUIRED READINGS ASSIGNMENTS SECTION DATE TOPIC 140 READER HOMEWORK Due in class AGENDA Tuesday Feb 7 Heat Flow through 12 Series Materials Assemblies Parallel Heat 7 Transfer 13 Determining Intermediate HW 2 DUE Temps 15 16 Thursday Feb 9 Infiltration Perimeter Heat Loss 8 17 week 4 Tuesday Feb 14 14 Infiltration 15 Perimeter Heat Loss Appendix 5 Thermal Properties of Materials Building Envelope Heat Loss 9 HW 3 DUE Thursday Feb 16 Sun Wind Light Strategy s Energy Center LAB 3 PG E Overivew of programs Energy Center Tour resources tools San Francisco Demonstration of Reminder heliodon and infrared LAB 4 Balance Point camera Game Read lab description before next week Program Use pp 38 44 Form Envelope p 45 55 DUE HW 3 Heat Design Proposal Transfer Worksheet Assigned due in Assigned HW 4 section week 7 Whole House Energy Flows due week 6 Th 2 23 Heat Transfer and the LAB 4 Balance Building Balance Point Point Game Form teams for Design Exploring tradeoffs in heating efficiency Project 3 21 23 Assigned Design Project note intermittent due dates Final Project due 6 pm Monday Week 15 5 1 16 Energy Estimating Methods Tuesday Feb 21 Thermal Comfort Psychrometrics 11 17 Thermal 11 18 Comfort 12 Thermal Delight review again Thursday Feb 23 Energy Codes LEED 18 Intro to Title 24 Rating System 12 LEED week 5 week 6 http arch ced berkeley edu courses arch140 LAB DUE HW 2 Thermal Storage Assigned HW 3 Heat Transfer due week 5 Tu 2 14 Annual Energy Consumption 10 HW 4 DUE OTHER Due in section DUE EX 2 Thermal Discussion of EX 2 LAB 5 POE Comfort Log Thermal Comfort Log Investigation Part I Workplace Quality Midterm review Evaluate an existing Review Building workspace in Wurster Bioclimatic Chart and develop a hypothesis Design Project discuss process design proposals DUE HW 4 Whole House Energy Flows Assigned HW 5 Energy End Use Patterns due week 8 Tu 3 7 ARCH 140 SYLLABUS page 2 of 5 ARCHITECTURE 140 DATE Tuesday Feb 28 Syllabus Spring 2006 LECTURE REQUIRED READINGS ASSIGNMENTS SECTION TOPIC 140 READER HOMEWORK Due in class AGENDA Sun Wind Light Strategy s MIDTERM 5 Sundials Shadows 15 20 Introduction to Sundials 7 Shading Masks Shadow Casting review again 1 11 Notes on Radiation review again 3 16 week 7 Tuesday Mar 7 HW 5 DUE Thursday Mar 9 2 Intro to Solar Geometry review again 19 Solar Geometry Variables Sun Angles Buildings 14 Shadow Casting Solar Radiation 16 LAB DUE Design Project Investigating Building LAB 5 POE Parts 1a and 1b Performance Investigation Design Proposal Part I Pin up Workplace Quality Worksheet Workplace Pinup of first week s Discuss Midterm Quality findings Part II Testing Introduce instruments develop questions of inquiry 13 Thursday Mar 2 OTHER Due in section DUE HW 5 Energy End Use Patterns Assigned HW 6 Sundial due week 9 Monday 3 13 Solar Geometry review LAB 5 POE Investigation GSI evaluations Part III Presentation Pin up and discussion of findings week 8 Tuesday Mar 14 Shading Analysis 17 20 HW 6 DUE on Monday this week Thursday Mar 16 Shading Devices 18 16 45 48 98 100 DUE HW 6 Sundial due on Monday 3 13 Assigned EX 3 Daylighting Log due in section week 11 Sundial Reviews Design Project daylight model pocket heliodon Shadow Tracing weather permitting week 9 http arch ced berkeley edu courses arch140 ARCH 140 SYLLABUS page 3 of 5 ARCHITECTURE 140 Syllabus Spring 2006 LECTURE REQUIRED READINGS ASSIGNMENTS SECTION DATE TOPIC 140 READER HOMEWORK Due in class AGENDA Tuesday Mar 21 Shading Masks 19 21 Shading Masks Fenestration Design Thursday Mar 23 Light Daylighting 20 22 Daylighting Applications Sun Wind Light Strategy s 8 10 29 31 32 35 51 54 58 70 71 78 84 85 89 101 OTHER Due in section Review Shading Masks Solar Geometry Design Project analysis methods LAB LAB 6a Shading Requirements Hand Calculations week 10 Mar 27 to SPRING BREAK Mar 31 Tuesday Apr 4 Daylighting Prediction 23 Testing Physical Models 21 Daylighting Designs using Models Thursday Apr 6 Microclimate 22 week 11 Tuesday Apr 11 Case Studies of Sustainable Design 23 Thursday Apr 13 Passive Cooling Design 24 25 Processes Affecting the Climate on the Building Site 26 Passive Solar Systems Appendix 6 Regional Climate Data week 12 4 7 29 31 38 41 42 46 47 49 52 53 59 64 77 79 82 83 87 89 91 93