Duration
40h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in architecture | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course is dedicated to the study of Hygrothermic, Ventilation, Acoustics and Lighting.
Hygrothermal comfort (heating-cooling) :
- Building energy management
- Losses by surface transmissions - opaque surfaces
- Losses by linear & point transmissions - thermal bridges
- Losses by surface transmissions - glazed surfaces
- Air loss - ventilation
- Air loss - in & exfiltration (airtightness)
- Passive solar contributions - winter & summer comfort (inertia, protections, cooling, etc.)
- Internal contributions - winter & summer comfort strategies
- Energy balance: net needs, final and primary consumption
Respiratory comfort (ventilation) :
- Aeraulics physics / infiltrometry
- Natural / mechanical ventilation
- Aeraulic distribution (in the premises, via the networks)
- Ventilation / heat recovery / geothermal units
Luminous comfort (lighting) :
- Introduction to lighting theory
- Introduction to artificial lighting
- Introduction to daylighting
Acoustic comfort (acoustic correction and acoustic insulation) :
- Introduction to acoustics theory
- Introduction to room acoustics (indoor acoustic comfort)
- Introduction to Acoustic Insulation
The following 4 transversal axes of reflection are encountered in this acoustics and lighting course:
- sustainability: making buildings comfortable from both thermal, visual and sound points of view is a mandatory condition to allow them to last over time while in line with user needs
- art: designing a project using heat, cold, air, light or sound opens doors to sensitive architecture
- digital: thermal, aeraulic, acoustic and lighting simulations are mainly carried out today via calculation software, which complete a first graphic or analog approach that the architect can use in preliminary design.
- society: lifestyles are closely linked to the percetion of people and therefore to the design of living spaces.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The student will be able :
1. To explain the basic concepts related to the perception and propagation of sound.
2. To state the principles of acoustic correction and to apply them to simple theoretical problems.
3. To describe the acoustic principles of rooms according to their uses and dimensions and to apply them to simple theoretical problems.
4. To calculate sound insulation levels for airborne noise from homogeneous continuous, discontinuous, double homogeneous walls and qualitatively compare several walls.
5. To evaluate the standard insulation of adjacent premises to the emission of airborne noise.
6. Explain the basic concepts related to the perception and propagation of light.
7. State the principles of natural lighting and to apply them to simple theoretical problems
8. To state the principles of artificial lighting and to apply them to simple theoretical problems
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Some concepts of basic mathematics - sinusoidal functions, logarithms ..
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Ex-cathedra courses and exercises in auditoriums
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
face-to-face
Recommended or required readings
Courses notes on e-campus
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
Out-of-session test(s)
Additional information:
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
Additional information:
written exam
Work placement(s)
not applicable
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Dimitri Schmitz
Assistant Professor
dimitri.schmitz@uliege.be
Olivier Henz
Assistant Professor
ohenz@uliege.be