Sustainable environmental design engages with real-life problems affecting buildings and cities throughout the world. Providing alternatives to the global architecture and brute force engineering
that are still the norm in most countries requires new knowledge on what makes a good environment for inhabitants and how architecture can contribute to this. Over the past five years the AA School’s SED Programme has pursued a research agenda on “Refurbishing the City”, initiating projects in some 70 cities across 40 countries and encompassing a wide range of building types and climates with proposals for both new and existing buildings and urban spaces.
The excerpts included in this compilation are from a selection of Term 1 projects illustrating the research methods introduced by the taught programme which combine on-site observations and measurements with advanced computational simulation of environmental processes.
Simos Yannas, Director MSc & MArch Sustainable Environmental Design
