Introduction

Green architecture; synonymous with sustainable architecture, are of built forms that are designed, built, renovated, operated and maintained, or reused in an ecologically responsible and resource-efficient manner. Green buildings are designed to meet certain objectives which include reduction of overall impact to the environment by using energy, water, and other resources more efficiently. Such buildings protect occupant health and improving employee productivity by reducing the pollution of all nature by lowering emissions and proper management of waste materials. Further, Green Architecture emphasizes sensible, sensitive and intelligent built form design for a lowered energy consumption and higher human performance and user comfort. Such a design approach does not stop with the unitary architecture, but extends further to the totality of the environment in terms of healthy coexistence with other built forms and landscape which results in reduced ill-impact to the environment that might other wise have been caused by the making and maintenance of such built forms. The initial investment in a green building may be more, but it saves through lower operating costs over the life-span of the building, with low impact to the environment and increased human performance.

Course Briefing

Sustainable Architecture is related to the concept of green building, and the two terms, are often used synonymously in relation to any building designed with environmental goals. Though the proponents of sustainability in the built environment to a large extent, spent the last quarter century reworking ideas and innovations that have originated in the 1970s or earlier, until recently, little of this work have enjoyed high profile political support, adequate funding, or a significant chance of breaking into the mainstream. However, the area has been characterised by frontier spirit, high levels of personal commitment and idealism, firm belief in the rightness of the technologies that were being developed and demonstrated and a tacit acceptance, on all sides. In the changing world environmental scenario, it has become inevitable for the survival of the human kind along with all other creations and nature at large, to adopt wholeheartedly sustainable, green approach to the built forms of the future. The course intends to cover an over view of the approaches in Green architecture, Agencies and Technologies involved with different rating systems as applicable in various cases of built forms. Design and detailing required along with planning, interiors and landscape design required for sustainability would be discussed in the programme.

Ecological Cities are intended to be designed in an ecological context and its goal relating the bioclimatic urban design through studying the interaction between man and the meteorological environment. Sustainable urban behaviour along with bioclimatic design approach is viewed as a path to sustainable urban settlements. Bioclimatic architecture is a way of designing buildings and manipulating the environment within buildings by working with natural forces around the building rather than against them. Heat generation, retention and dissipation are important aspects of urban form for its sustained healthy environmental survival. Heat island formation is a recent phenomenal that is of growing concern to the urban areas. General design principles and the heat island formation will be discussed in the programme along with the importance of urban landscaping for sustainability.

Energy and Form emphasizes the close relationship between the energy efficiency of a building with its architectural form and fabric. Design strategies; both visible and unseen, in architectural expressions work together to achieve the desired energy efficiency in built forms. It is important to understand the relationship between the form of architecture and its energy efficiency and how pronounced is this relationship. Further, there is a growing need to explore the possibility and extend to which building energy performance exerts determinant influence on the form generating process in sustainable architecture. Examples where the form of a building structure has been derived from such considerations are important for case study in this approach. It is also important to look for alternative strategies, technology and materials in order to achieve form efficiency befitting the times.

Carbon Foot Printing: A carbon footprint is a measure of the total carbon dioxide emissions directly and indirectly caused by human activities at a specific point in time. Carbon Descent can calculate carbon dioxide emissions and the footprint and can include energy use in buildings, power generation, transport, waste treatment and embodied emissions. The carbon footprint obtained is the benchmark by which future emission reductions can be measured.

Resource Persons and special feature:

Lectures will be delivered by eminent faculty members from well-known institutes within India and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Resource persons would also be drawn from industries and other specialized consultants in the area of Green Architecture and Carbon Free Living. Technical presentation from industries and building system and material manufactures would be an added feature of the program. Individual presentations would generate the much needed empowerment in the participants.

About Department of Architecture and Regional Planning

In the year 1952, under the leadership of Professor E. Braner, a group of ten students formed the nucleus of this department. Soon it developed into a full-fledged undergraduate programme also offering post-graduate courses in 1956, for the first time, in the country. The Institute of Town Planners had also its beginning in this department. With time, pioneering attempts were made to start advance training in Building Science, Application of Computer Techniques in Architectural design Simulation, Presentation Graphics and Construction Technology. The consultancy activities of the Department range from government and large corporate clients in the country ranging from design of large townships, institutions, landscaped environmental planning to conservation of heritage sites and buildings. Some of the key areas of research include Building Technology and Management, Housing and Community Planning, Heritage Studies and Conservation, Urban Design, Visual and Graphic Design, Computer Applications in Architecture and Planning, GIS and Multimedia Applications, Environmental Design, Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering, Metropolitan Planning, Infrastructure Planning and Systems Management.

Target Participants:

Participants eligible for the Programme shall include AICTE approved Engineering College Teachers; both Government and private, and Professionals and from Industry or profession.

Registration Fee:

There is no Registration fee for teachers from AICTE approved engineering colleges. They will be provided free boarding and lodging and travel by Rail; A/C 3-Tier, by shortest route.

Location of IIT Kgp:

IIT Kharagpur is situated 116 km away from Kolkata, and it is the oldest and the largest among all IITs. Kharagpur is an important junction in the south Eastern Railways, and is well connected to all major cities in India. IIT Kgp is about 5 km from Kharagpur railway station, and is accessible by rickshaws, autos, and taxis from the station.

How to Apply:

Interested participants should download the completed application form from the IIT Kgp website and submit the hard copy to the Coordinator at the mailing address given below.

Important Dates:

Mailing Address:

Prof. Abraham George
Associate Professor,
Department of Architecture and Regional Planning
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
West Bengal - 721302
Email: abraham@arp.iitkgp.ernet.in
Tel: 91-3222-283236 (O), 91-3222-283237 (R)
Cell: 91-943474236

Prof. Saikat Kr. Paul
Assistant Professor,
Department of Architecture and Regional Planning
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
West Bengal - 721302
Email: skpaul@arp.iitkgp.ernet.in
Tel: 91-3222-283212 (O) 91-3222-283213 (R),
Cell: 91-9433149331