The courses focus aims at making the students aware of ecological problems. Goal of the interdisciplinary module is to examine the use of innovative technologies, to develop an architecture responsive to particular climatic problems, and to find an approach to architecture as a matter, limited in its longevity yet sustainable through recyclability.
The topics - reduction in toxic emissions, decrease in energy consumption, harvesting of rainwater, implementation of recyclable and renewable materials, use of active and passive solar energy, have acquired a degree of importance equal to the classical, technical and functional issues related to architecture. Under these new influences, the language of contemporary architecture is fundamentally changing. The experimental examination of the physical, ecological, artistic, technological, philosophical, economical and environmental factors shall allow a comprehensive and 'holistic' view in stating the problem. Two incremental workshops will arrange the various thematic areas into manageable workloads, organized by the course instructors in an interdisciplinary fashion, thus allowing topical relationships and correlations to be made apparent.
Core Subjects:
- Ökosystem Ballungsraum - VO 1,5 ects (1,5h) - Robert Korab
- Gebäude und Kontext - VU 2,5 ects (2,0h) - Carola Stabauer
- Interface-Hülle - VU 2,5 ects (2,0h) - Eva Germann
- Materialtechnologie - VU 2,5 ects (2,0h) - Günter Pichler
- Öko-Logik beim Tragwerksentwurf - VO 1,0 ects (1,0h) - Daniel Stephan
Enroll in the entire module BIOS!
All of the core subjects of the BIOS module SS2019 are on Monday AM and on Thursday PM
Introduction: March 11th 2019, 14:00 at Projektraum 15
Register here only if you wish to take part in all of the core subjects of the BIOS module. If wish to partake in only individual subjects of the module, then enroll directly in the chosen course(s) under TISS (Information System of Vienna University of Technology). A registration in the module package results in an automatic enrollment in all of the module subjects.
Using both passive and active means, future architecture will orient itself more and more towards a reduction in energy consumption, as a means to an environmentally safe way of building. An ecologically safe building is only reasonable and possible when the factors such as climatic conditions, use of recyclable materials, and integration of local topological conditions, are respected. These factors are to be considered at all scales, spanning through the global, urban, individual building and detail development of a project.
Modul-Coordinator: Günter Pichler gpichler@raumgestaltung.tuwien.ac.at