Academic year/semester: 2025/26/2

ECTS Credits: 5

Available for: Only for the faculty’s students

Lecture hours: 1
Seminarium:0
Practice: 2
Laboratory: 0
Consultation: 0

Prerequisites: 2 absolved semesters in a program of architecture or civil engineering. IMPORTANT: Students can choose whether ONLY MSc (incl. YAROESFBNF) courses, or ONLY vertical studio courses! Exceptions we can make on individual decisions based on special requests, maximum for less than 50% of the courses - please contact our international coordinator.

Course Leader: Dr. Vizi Gergely PhD

Faculty: Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, 1146 Budapest, Thököly út 74.

Course Description:
To get to know and recognize the natural and artificial environmental effects in our built environment. To find architectural tools to deal with them. Deepening personal responsibility for the protection of the environment in design and construction practice.
In the framework of the subject, we examine the above with lectures and after the lectures in the framework of an interactive discussion. We examine what impact we have on our environment and how our environment affects us from a health and comfort point of view. We look at methods that can be used to reduce or eliminate environmental – whether artificial or natural – effects.

Competences:
critical and problem-solving thinking, research, collaborative skills

Topics:
Topics:
1. week: Course information. Sustainable development? Ecological footprint
2. week: The relationship between the built and natural environment
3. week: The effect of urban environments on our senses
4. week: Vision, spatial perception, light effects and conditions of indoor visual comfort
5. week: Sense of smell, Sick building syndrome
6. week: Noise and sound
7. week: Heat and humidity
8. week: Artificial radiations
9. week: Environmental disasters, structural safety
10. week: Air pollution
11. Week: Presentation and evaluation of studies
12. Week: Presentation and evaluation of studies
13. week: Summary presentation

Assessment: semester tasks

Exam Types:

no exam

Compulsory bibliography: -

Recommended bibliography: Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth: Williams E. Rees; How to Give Up Plastic by Will McCallum; The Architecture of Sound: Acoustic Design For Buildings by Robert Bullen; Health Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation by Dr Bruce Fife; https://www.thestructuralengineer.info/education/structure-types/protective-structures

Additional bibliography: -

Additional Information: -