Master
Architecture – Green Building
full-time
Duration: February 2017 to July 2017
Since 2013, the Department of Building and Design at FH Campus Wien has been offering an architecture programme with a focus on sustainability with its bachelor's degree in Green Building. Building on this, the Master's degree programme in Architecture - Green Building was launched in autumn 2016. Both study programs train architects who meet the requirements of the EU Buildings Directive EPBD 2010. According to this directive, member states are obliged to construct only nearly zero-energy buildings from 2020. In conjunction with the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and those of the City of Vienna's IBA - International Building Exhibition Vienna - project, the topics of sustainable architecture and sustainable cities are highly topical.
Against this backdrop, WANA is examining the current projects, issues and criteria of sustainable architecture in Vienna and the surrounding area. The aim is to catalogue and analyse this and make it available to the public.
The research project is dedicated to cataloguing Vienna's sustainable architecture and building equipment since 2005 and includes the analysis of the architecture on the one hand and the building equipment on the other. This approach enables a conceptual categorisation of the sustainable architecture projects examined. The catalogue compiled in this way is intended to show which projects are primarily attributable to architectural strategies (construction method, mechanical heating, cooling and ventilation concepts, local building typologies, engagement with the location), which are primarily attributable to building equipment and which are attributable to a combination of architectural strategies and building equipment.
The results will be analysed in a final report. WANA thus creates the basis for future discussions on the respective roles of architecture and building equipment in sustainable building projects in Vienna.
Smart Buildings research field
Since 1 August 2020, five interdisciplinary research areas have replaced existing research fields.