Urban And Environmental Applied Physics

Urban And Environmental Applied Physics (4 CFU) - 1° year of post-graduate (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 emergency, this course is FULLY ONLINE at least for the first semester A/Y 2020/2021.

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 these 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	Energy requirement for interior lighting of buildings Energy requirement for street lighting
4	Natural lighting through windows Verification of the acoustic and lighting performances of the windows of a building

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	Link to material
3	09/12/2020 - 09.00-11.00	Artificial lighting	<work in progress>
4	16/12/2020 - 11.00-13.00	Natural lighting, windows	<work in progress>

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 March 2021 onwards), which is assigned to groups of 2 students, and which constitutes during this phase the main activity carried out in the classroom.
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.
The final aim of the laboratory is the production of two chapters of the A3 book (acoustics, lighting), which will form the basis of evaluation together with the work done in the classroom.