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Have you ever considered the parallels between buildings and the human body? For humans to function optimally, intricate systems must integrate seamlessly, demonstrating resilience and adaptability. Similarly, Whole Building Design treats structures as living entities, necessitating a collaborative design approach to achieve harmony among systems. This method fosters sustainability, energy efficiency, and universal accessibility. In this course, we will explore successful and less effective design strategies, evaluating how well they integrate a building’s 'body' for optimal performance, much like ensuring a healthy human body versus undergoing unnecessary medical procedures.
Prepare for the future of architecture by exploring its emerging trends and challenges. This session delves into the ethical considerations, technological advancements, and evolving roles of design professionals in a rapidly changing world. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the global and local factors impacting architecture, focusing on the inherent fragility in modern architectural landscapes. Address pressing issues such as megacities, climate change, and affordable housing by examining their characteristics and architectural responses. Through case studies and discussions, you will acquire practical strategies for designing resilient and adaptive structures. Enhance your professional practice by integrating climate-conscious design and fostering inclusive, thriving communities.
Energy is essential for both human bodies and buildings; without it, neither can function properly. Drawing parallels to the body's resilient and sustainable energy system, this course will teach you to design Net Zero Energy Buildings, focusing on optimal energy consumption, onsite energy production, and storage. Additionally, you will explore Positive Energy Buildings, which generate more energy over their life cycle than they consume, marking the next evolution in sustainable architecture.
What would happen to design if everyone was blind?
Architects and Designers have become increasingly oculocentric. Where the way a design looks can become the dominant component. Yet new studies into Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuro Architecture are providing data-driven information regarding the critical importance of engaging all the senses. Wouldn’t you like your projects to produce stronger reactions, generate deeper memories and create richer experiences?
See how integrating all the senses improves the lives of those with cognitive conditions. How multisensory design can make wayfinding safer and easier. How it can help students and employees learn better. And even how it can reduce anxiety and lower stress. Sight is just one of the senses. Join us to “see” what you can achieve when you design for Multi Senses!
By 2050, dementia is expected to affect 152 million people worldwide. There is no cure and few treatments that can help slow the disease's progression or manage the symptoms. However, design can play a significant role in creating safe, comfortable, and stimulating environments for people with dementia.
This lecture will discuss the role of environmental design interventions in mitigating disruptive behaviors, improving quality of life, reducing stress, and providing support for caregivers. Explore how these strategies can help bridge the emotional experience with sensory, perceptive, and reminiscent memory to help mitigate disruptive behaviors and their triggers. Design can transform caring for those with dementia from merely keeping them safe to providing a rich experience. Environmental design interventions can help decode dementia's visceral world and support non-cognitive human experiences improving the health, safety and wellbeing of the person living with dementia and those that support them.
Everyone knows the old adage "it all goes downhill after 40". In fact, your visual acuity peaks in your 20's. Light and human health have recently been at the forefront of many design discussions. This program will cover the characteristics of the human visual system, the impact aging has on our ability to see and how light (and color of light) impacts human health. This program will help shape your future lighting design decisions to ensure that users of all ages are positively impacted by lighting in your projects.
Holistic is a word that is being applied to many industries, ranging from yoga retreats to healthcare, and now to Architecture and Design. It is the belief that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and everything is interconnected. Thinking holistically about design, means considering the mental, physical and emotional impact of the design on the user as well as the environmental and global impact on the planet.
This course explores global programs that help foster holistic thinking as well as projects that exhibit this thinking. Holistic Architecture and Design is complex, multifaceted and achievable, going beyond form and function to improve wellness for individuals, society and the planet.
This two-hour course reviews significant updates in the 2023 8th Edition Florida Building Code, Florida Residential Code, and Florida Existing Building Code. Participants will explore key sections with exact code text and commentary for practical context. The course also covers how key changes relate to other code sections. Upon completion, participants will understand the 2023 code changes and their impact on public safety and the built environment.
An office setting and a Polo barn are the two projects that lighting designer Charles Thompson has chosen to explore with you as he shares best practices and lessons learned. Aimed at bridging the gap between theory and practice, you’ll gain valuable insights that you can apply to your next lighting design challenge to meet budget and code requirements and optimize health, safety, and wellbeing for the end users.
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