Building and Planning

post contains twoi assignments

Architecture, Building and Planning

case-based project focusing on UNSW Law Building

Building Design Context, Authorities and National Construction Code:
1.1. Do you believe that design decisions for innovative and/or green building designs are primarily influenced by codes, by standards, by guidelines, or by unfettered imagination? Explain.

1.2. Provide a specific example of what the sustainable design principle “aggregate rather than isolate” might mean in the context of a Law Building.

1.3. As licensed professionals, do architects and engineers have a responsibility to address future conditions (and future generations) by designing beyond the requirements of existing codes and standards? Why or why not?

1.4. What are the implications of sustainability from the perspective of an individual building project? Can a building truly be sustainable; a neighbourhood; a city?

1.5. As a building services professional, rank the following building attributes in order of importance: aesthetics, functionality, life safety, thermal comfort, construction cost, sustainability. Briefly indicate why you ranked these attributes as you did. Would your ranking change if you were the building’s would-be owner instead of the designer or service engineer?

1.6. Measurements in a lecture hall indicate that thermal conditions lie somewhat outside of the ASHRAE comfort zone, leading the university to worry about the comfort of students in class (OK, this is a hypothetical question). A second opinion is sought from a researcher who shows that the measured conditions are actually somewhat inside of the zone of adaptive model of comfort. Two benchmarks, two answers. You decide: Is this space comfortable or not?

1.7. As a building designer, what do you believe is the single MOST important thing you should remember about thermal comfort during the design process?

1.8. Is it ethical for a building designer to shift some of the burden for thermal comfort to the occupants of a building—for example, by requiring adaptive responses from building users? Would your response to this question change from building type to building type?

1.9. Rank order the general control strategies for indoor air quality—source control, source exhaust, filtration, dilution with ventilation, and high-quality maintenance—in order of applicability to implementation through the architectural design process. Why did you rank these items in the order that you did?

1.10. If you were called on, as a designer, to investigate occupant complaints of poor indoor air quality in a building you had recently designed, how would you go about conducting such an investigation?

1.11. What actions taken during design and construction do you think make the difference between a building with good indoor air quality.

2:The relevant material planning considerations that apply to the 2017 application for new stadium for cheap sea FC. In this assessment you should discuss the planning balance and offer your own view as to why this application was granted a planning permiss

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