The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how people look at the built environment, whether at home, at workplaces, in schools, or in public places. This course will describe how these changing views are directly impacting the ways that buildings are being designed with architects and other design professionals stepping up to address changing criteria with innovation and an enhanced focus on health, safety, and welfare issues. Within this changing situation, large operable glass walls have emerged as a durable, flexible, and sustainable solution in many different types of buildings. While they are commonly used to separate indoor and outdoor spaces on exterior walls or provide flexible, acoustically controlled interior spaces, they have taken on an important new role in helping to separate and protect people too.
Learning Objective 1:
The student will be able to identify and recognize the significance of the health concerns related to the COVID 19 pandemic as they relate to building design and product selection.
Learning Objective 2:
The student will be able to assess the safety aspects of incorporating designs and product selections that protect buildings, occupants, and owners from harm and damage, particularly in light of unexpected violence or vandalism.
Learning Objective 3:
The student will be able to explain the welfare aspects of design and product selection that enable equitable access to all, can elevate the human experience with daylight and outdoor access, and benefit the environment through sustainable building design.
Learning Objective 4:
The student will be able to determine ways to incorporate the design principles as presented into different building types and applications.