Aim
This course will support students'ability to critically examine contemporary urban planning and building design from a sustainable societal perspective, at the same time as providing means and methods of action for the future.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

• demonstrate an understanding of how architecture is associated with the ambition for a sustainable society (from a technical point of view),

• be able to describe the current systems and solutions which are applied on the urban scale and within each building,

• be able to describe the availability of different kinds of energy in relation to the selected energy solution.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

• demonstrate an ability to visualize, graphically and in text, the possible choices of system solutions.

• demonstrate an ability to describe the chosen solutions from their technical aspects.

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

• demonstrate analytical skills to critically review the practice and theory of prevailing views of how sustainability issues are discussed in society and building,

• demonstrate the ability to weigh the different input values in a specific situation to a sustainable solution.

Contents
The course is complementary to the courses The Fundamentals of Urban Design and Sustainable Architectural Design. Lectures and seminars convey knowledge of the city's infrastructure and the building's technical installations and construction, all from a sustainability perspective. A final statement in the form of text, and schematic diagrams of the given problems are performed in groups. Parallel to the other assignments runs the study of the literature.

Literature
Course literature varies from year to year.