Sustainable environmental design engages with real-life problems affecting buildings and cities throughout the world. Providing alternatives to the global architecture and brute force engineering that are still the norm in most countries requires new knowledge on what makes a good environment for inhabitants and how architecture can contribute to this. Over the past five years the AA School’s SED Programme has pursued a research agenda on “Refurbishing the City”, initiating projects in some 70 cities across 40 countries and encompassing a wide range of building types and climates with proposals for both new and existing buildings and urban spaces.
The excerpts included in this compilation are from recent Phase I team projects undertaken over ten weeks in Term 2 of the course illustrating the application of the principles and tools of sustainable environmental design to explore future visions of living and working in London.
Simos Yannas, Director MSc & MArch Sustainable Environmental