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Regenerating Sustainability

  • ABPL90272
  • Contact Hours: 3 hour studio and 1 hour lecture
    Total Time Commitment: 10 hours a week, 120 hours total.
  • 12.50
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Sustainable or Green Buildings are centred on creating more efficient buildings rather than<br/>aiming for zero or even positive contributions. This subject explores and critiques this efficiency<br/>based approach to sustainability and proposes a regenerative, positive and biophilic design<br/>framework.<br/><br/>This subject will provide a series of lectures exploring the ideas of biophilia, positive development, regeneration, cradle to cradle, the living building challenge and contributive design. Based on a series of seminars and site visits, documented in student lead weekly reflections, student will apply their learning to an existing project in Melbourne.<br/><br/>. -- Course Website

Prerequisites: None



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