Thirteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices

Abstract

The design studio is the essence and spirit of the architectural education curricula while design itself is a structured process or a tactical guideline to accomplish a unique expectation of a product. The integration of sustainability principles into undergraduate design studio is an urgent need to teach young architects sustainable design principles that can stop the continual environmental degradation of our planet. This study initiated an improved design studio pedagogy and a novel teaching structure for integrating sustainability principles with a testing method of the new pedagogy and the students’ final products. This paper presents the tests results of the improved experimental study and delivers recommendations for the following experimental design studio.