Course Description
"Sustainable architectures" is one of the most significant key issues in the 21st century. The global societies require the sustainability of themselves by re-designing the settlements for the harmony with the ecological system as well as for the reduction of CO2 emission. The intent of this course is to learn to integrate sustainable building and planning principles into the form making process of architectural design.
Aim / Course objective
This course provides students with opportunities
- To develop an understanding of sustainable building design principles, regulations, building materials and technologies, environmental, low energy architecture and low-cost building.
- To investigate and evaluate current technologies for sustainable building design, and to develop architectural details and drawings to resolve the integration of sustainable technologies into the building design process.

- Teacher: Samrawit Hailu