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 2021/2022 - Calendar and multimedia material Click here for the Italian version of this course

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

The lessons will be done entirely during the second semester: 5 theoretical lessons of 4h each, just before Easter, and 5 interactive labs for preparing the project, after Easter.

Pre-requisites

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

heat dispersion through the building envelope
thermophysical properties of moist air
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 past years:

Fisica Tecnica Ambientale (A/Y 2019-20)

Receiving hours

Receiving hours: Tuesday, 10.30 to 12.30, online only, using MS teams.

This is the link to the "receiving hours" team; you can join this team without the need of asking permission to the teacher using this access code: jzdz20j

Theoretical background - 2^nd semester\

5 "workshops" of 4h each are planned, in March-April 2022 (before Easter)

An anticipation of the contents of these lessons can be obtained looking at the web page of this course hold during the pervious academic year 2020/21.

This is the calendar of the 5 workshops, located in Aula Disegno 2 - Campus - Didactical Engineering. The workshops will be recoded and the video files made available here (no synchronous streaming is planned):

N.	Date - time	Topic	Support files	Videorecordings
1	09-03-2022 - 14.30-18.30	Recalls of building energy requirements
2	16-03-2022 - 14.30-18.30	Humidity and ventilation
3	23-03-2022 - 14.30-18.30	Recalls of building acoustics
4	30-03-2022 - 14.30-18.30	Recalls of environmental acoustics
5	06-04-2022 - 14.30-18.30	Recalls of artificial lighting

During these workshops, particularly during the last two ones, students should carry their own laptops in the classroom, having installed the software which later will be employed for the project:

The acoustics simulation program DISIA - Citymap and the accompanying Surfer charting program
The artificial lighting program Easy Light - Save the Sky and the accompanying Philips catalogue
All this software is available here.

Exam Project (Laboratory) - 2^nd Semester
The activity carried out in the first part of the course, before Easter, is aimed at developing a project, to be carried out during the second part (after Easter 2022), which is assigned to groups of 2 students.
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) - Here you find the current noise maps of Eindhoven
design of the new public lighting system - Here you find the online Philips catalog of luminaires

At each lesson, some students present the progress of their project and the whole class interacts providing suggestions and criticisms. 5 interactive labs of 4h each are planned, for a total of 20 hours. The labs will be in Aula Disegno 2 - Campus - Didactical Engineering, between14.30 and 18.30, in the following days:

Laboratory of Urban And Environmental Applied Physics
04/05/2022	11/05/2022	18/05/2022	25/05/2022	01/06/2022

The labs will be in presence only and will not be recorded, as the new regulations on teaching methods (DR 540 of 30-03-2022), which came into force on 1 April 2022, exclude the possibility of carrying out laboratory activities in synchronous or asynchronous streaming, and provide for the recording of lessons only.

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT IT STILL MANDATORY TO USE FFP2 MASKS, to maintain an adequate social distance, and to periodically sanitize the hands with the special gel available in the classroom.

Those unable to come to the classroom must use the two hours of weekly reception, during which the possibility of remote connection via MS Teams is maintained, as clearly indicated on the teacher's Home Page.

Students coming to the classroom should carry their own laptop, and being equipped for connecting it to the video projection system, for showing the progress done using the acoustical and lighting simulation software, and the resulting documents.

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.