This course offers advanced knowledge on HAM (Heat Air and Moisture) modeling. The most up-​to-date simulation models will be presented and used by the participants during simulation workshops.

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In 2015, the UN Conference in Paris shaped future world objectives to tackle climate change.Today, the world is facing the reality of surpassing the 1.5°C warming threshold, and the built environment faces unprecedented challenges and opportunities.This course engages students in critical discussions on sustainable development within regenerative, resilient and adaptive built environments.

Lightweight construction correspond to wooden-framed or prefabricated system fulfilled with a lightweight biobased material. Knowing the technical aspects, limitations and solutions, rules, public market, but also building physic is essential for a good conception and the management of the project.

Lightweight construction correspond to wooden-framed or prefabricated system fulfilled with a lightweight biobased material. Knowing the technical aspects, limitations and solutions, rules, public market, but also building physic is essential for a good conception and the management of the project.

The course is focused on constructive details for regenerative materials used to build high-quality envelops and high-comfort environments. The participant are learning through a hands-​on workshop during which they will produce samples and conduct field test analysis in small groups.

Design-Integrated LCA equips future architects and engineers with essential skills to assess and minimise the environmental impact of buildings over their life cycle. In this project-based course, students will perform a building LCA using digital parametric LCA tools. Working in groups, students will gain hands-on experience in strategies and material choices to enhance building sustainability.

Regenerative materials come in a wide variety of forms and compositions, from raw materials to industrialized construction systems. Knowing the specificities of these different materials is needed to adopt the appropriate constructive choice adapted to the socio-economic situation of the territory and the resource availability.

Regenerative materials come in a wide variety of forms and compositions, from raw materials to industrialized construction systems. Knowing the specificities of these different materials is needed to adopt the appropriate constructive choice adapted to the socio-economic situation of the territory and the resource availability.

Earth construction is attracting attention in contemporary construction. New strategies have been developed for innovation, combining traditional techniques with modern construction systems and new materials. These constructions are still challenging with regards to standards and building codes, but many solutions exist to fulfil the expectation and ambition to make a different architecture.

Earth construction is attracting attention in contemporary construction. New strategies have been developed for innovation, combining traditional techniques with modern construction systems and new materials. These constructions are still challenging with regards to standards and building codes, but many solutions exist to fulfil the expectation and ambition to make a different architecture.

Focus works are executed in the fields of expertise of the institures of D-ARCH. The content can be proposed by the students; it will be set bey the professors of the institutes in consultation with the students. The content of a focus work can refer to an elective course or be freely chosen.

Regenerative Materials can be used to build high-quality envelops and high-comfort environments. The course present the basics of hygrothermal building physics and the state of the art in this field. It gives an overview of the type of earth and bio-based materials that can be used and the range of their hygrothermal properties.

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Building materials with a special focus on regenerative materials: earth, bio-based and reuse.Looking at material sourcing, properties and performance, as well as how they are integrated in the buildings (building envelope and detailing).

This learning module navigates the journey from global crises to local interventions by first emphasizing the significance of resilience in DRRS. It then explores local responses to global crises through diverse perspectives in the "framing nested crises" submodule. The subsequent submodules focus on practical skills at the community level and the societal and individual root causes of crises.

The last module of the CAS consists in an individual or group project exercise, that will be presented during a final review on the 15th of May 2020

Based on the content of previous courses, the participant are asked to simulate to analyse the hygrothermal behaviour of a building built with the constructive technique they studied. In addition, they have to reproduce the measurements and monitoring conditions and compare them to simulation results. The results and discussion is presented in front of a jury.