Urban And Environmental Applied Physics

Urban And Environmental Applied Physics (4 CFU) 1^st year of advanced degree in Architecture and city sustainability
A/A 2020/2021 - Calendar and multimedia material

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ATTENTION: due to the continuing risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, this course is FULLY ONLINE also for the second semester of A/Y 2020/2021.

The lessons of the second semester will be done on the Teams platform on Friday morning, 10.30 to 12.30, beginning on 05/03/2021 until 28/05/2021.

This is the code for the first access to the Team of this course: 8ipeuxr

This is the link for following accesses (after having been authenticated with the code above): FTAC

N.B: for the program, the exam procedures, the dates of the exams, etc., see the institutional web page of the course:

Urban And Environmental Applied Physics

Pre-requisites

This course assumes that students have already acquired some basic knowledge during their three-years degree, and in particular:

thermophysical properties of moist air
heat dispersion through the building envelope
fundamentals of acoustics
fundamentals of lighting technology

If necessary, students who are not already in possession of this basic knowledge can integrate their cultural background by using the teaching material (slides, handouts, video recording of the lessons) taken from the web page of the Environmental Technical Physics course held over the years past:

Fisica Tecnica Ambientale (A/Y 2019-20)

Flipped Classroom - 1^st semester

The first half of the course (corresponding to the 1st cycle of lessons) is set with the methodology known as "flipped classroom": the didactic part of the teaching makes use of multimedia material made available on this website (NOT on ELLY or on other poorly expandable platforms), as better specified in the following calendar.
During online meetings orgainzed on MS Teams, students should report to the class after viewing and studying the material relevant to each lesson, which is made available one week in advance. In the virtual classroom the activity is carried out as a "workshop", based on the solution of concrete verification or design problems.
The teacher and the students themselves alternate on the blackboard, solving problems also in numerical form and carrying out project calculations and sizing.
Four "flpped classrooms" are planned, with reference to the following topics:

1	Energy requirement for heating and air conditioning of buildings Verification of the thermal and hygrometric insulation of the building envelope
2	Noise pollution and acoustic classification of the territory - verification of compliance with the zone limits Verification of passive acoustic requirements of buildings
3	Design and energy requirements for interior lighting of buildings Natural lighting through windows
4	Design and energy requirements for street lighting Lighting pollution, the "dark sky" initiative

Each of these lessons requires a didactical load of 5 hours: 3h for watching the video lessons and reading the material provided, and 2h of interactive online activity on MS Teams. So the total work load for the first semester is 20h.

Calendar of Interactive Lessons on MS Teams (1^st Semester)

N.	Date and Hour	Topic
1	18/11/2020 - 14.00-16.00	Thermal Insulation of the builiding

Topic	Notes	Slides	Video Lessons
Heat transfer through walls and windows
Heat sources: furnaces and heat pumps
Diffusion of humidity, the Glaser diagram
Yearly energy requirement, energetic performance certification

N.	Date and Hour	Topic
2	25/11/2020 - 09.00-11.00	Environmental Acoustics, Building Acoustics

Topic	Notes	Slides	Video Lessons
Italian law about environmental noise (L. 447/1995), acoustical zoning, the new EC standards based on Lden - Results
The Single Event Level (SEL) and its usage for evaluation of transportation noise
Examples and exercises regarding environmental noise
Simulation of sound propagation outdoors employing the DISIA/CITYMAP software package

N.	Date and Hour	Topic
3	09/12/2020 - 09.00-11.00	Indoor lighting

Topic	Notes	Video Lessons
Lighting technology: fundamental quantities and cause-effect relationships
Indoor artificial lighting: type of lamps Light quality: Color Temperature and Color Rendering Index (CRI)
Design of indoor artificial lighting systems with the Lumen method Verification of daylight natural lighting indoors with the average daylight factor

N.	Date and Hour	Topic
4	16/12/2020 - 11.00-13.00	Outdoor lighting

Topic	Notes	Video Lessons
Fundamentals of street lighting
Design of a road lighting system
The free software Easy Light - Save the Sky (Cielo Buio - https://cielobuio.org/)

Exam Project (Laboratory) - 2^nd Semester
The activity carried out in the first part of the course is aimed at developing a project, to be carried out during the second part (from February 2021 onwards), which is assigned to groups of 2 students, and which constitutes during he main activity carried out in this phase.
Students are entrusted with the drafting of a urban planning project related in an urban context with high population density, for which they will have to produce the technical documentation required by the current regulatory framework, and more specifically the following two documents:

acoustics climate analysis (including assessment of noise sources, if present)
design of the new public lighting system

At each lesson, some students present the progress of their project and the whole class interacts providing suggestions and criticisms. 10 lessons of 2h each are planned, for a total of 20 hours.

The final aim of the laboratory is the production of two chapters (acoustics, lighting) of the A3 book, which will form the basis of evaluation.