Dr Ehsan Sharifi
Email: ehsan.sharifi@adelaide.edu.au
Phone: 08-8313-0317
Students contact hours: Fridays 1-3pm (Room 475, Horace Lamb Building)

Lectures
Mondays, 9:00-10:00am, Darling West Lecture Theatre, G14 

Tutorials 
Mondays 10am-12pm / 12-2pm / 2-4pm Barr Smith South 510/511

Workshops
Mondays 10:00-12:00 and 12:00-14:00 - Barr Smith South 539 (W5-W8)

                   
W1: Introduction to Cities and Climate Change
W2: Low Carbon, Zero Waste and Resilient Cities
W3: Healthy, Liveable and Biophilic Cities
W4: CoA Strategic Plan and Urban Greening
W5: Urban Microclimates
W6: Outdoor Thermal and Wind Comfort
W7: Public Space and Public Life
W8: Urban Cooling Strategies
W9: Case Studies of Sustainable Urban Design - online
W10: Case Studies of Urban Heat Adaptation
W11: Green, water and energy in the city
W12: Final Remarks
W13: Students presentation 

Knowledge
Skills

Urban Heat Mitigation Techniques
M Santamouris & Denia Kolokotsa
Routledge, 2016
This book is available as an e-book from UofA Library at:
https://www-taylorfrancis-com.proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/books/e/9781315765839


Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices
Newman, Peter & Jennings, Isabella
Island Press, 2008
This book is available as an e-book from UofA Library at:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/adelaide/detail.action?docID=3317481



Guides to Urban Cooling Strategies
Osmond, Paul & Sharifi, Ehsan
Low Carbon Living CRC, 2017
This booklet is available online at:
http://www.lowcarbonlivingcrc.com.au/sites/all/files/publications_file_attachments/crc_lcl_urban_cooling_guide_2017_web.pdf



Adelaide Design Manual: Green Infrastructure Guidelines
ASPECT Studios,
City of Adelaide, 2017
This technical report is available online at:
http://www.adelaidedesignmanual.com.au/resources/resources



There is no prescribed reader or course pack for this course. Students are expected to be able to independently research relevant readings and materials while working on their assignments, drawing on the collections in the Barr-Smith library, the State Library of South Australia, the City of Adelaide archives, as well as other local or specialist collections where warranted.

A partial list of recommended readings to provide starting points for further research will made available to students through email and MyUni. Other recommended resources, including software, online tools, and production techniques, will also be developed progressively over the course of the semester and posted to MyUni or circulated via email.
Students are encouraged to take an active interest in the research activities of the department, including the programs of CAMEA and CASRU, as well as the Speaker Series talks and other occasional events.

University Email:
The school uses the University email system to get in touch with the students. So it is imperative that you check your email regularly and keep up to date with any new announcements.

MyUni:
MyUni is an essential online tool which will be used to communicate information regarding the course including details of assignments and interim grades. There are many other learning resources and assessment pieces that rely on the MyUni system for delivery. Therefore it is recommended that you familiarise yourself with the various functions of MyUni and employ it to its fullest extent. https://myuni.adelaide.edu.au

Discussion Board:
The MyUni Discussion Board can be used to interact with other students and tutors and is an essential tool to discuss information and increase your understanding of issues.

Lecture Recording:
In certain cases the recording of the lectures is made available in electronic format for students to listen through on their own time and make notes, and is provided through the MyUni system. However, this service is only available for lectures with essential course content and may not include guest lectures. Furthermore, where the presentation content is subject to copyright or the guest speaker is uncomfortable with the recording of the content, the lecture recording will not be made available online. So students should not rely solely on this mode of learning and arrange to attend or get lecture content from peers.

Noticeboard / Handbook:
General information about the activities at the School is available online from the Student Noticeboard which can be accessed at
https://unified.adelaide.edu.au/group/professons-studentarchitecture/ current-student
Students can also access a copy of the Student Handbook at the following link:
https://unified.adelaide.edu.au/group/professons-student-architecture/enrolments

This course advances its learning objectives primarily through a project-based approach built around the production of the “Readings” project books, delivered with a combination of lecture and tutorial modes. Online-based collaborative and communication modes also constitute an important aspect of the course. The MyUni system will provide the basic online platform for the course, but other online tools and media may also be explored and employed.

Lectures
Lectures define the common core of the subject, delivering the basic references and knowledge defining the course content. All students come together at one time in the lecture room - for this reason lectures are also an important space for overall organisation and feedback. Attendance at lectures is therefore essential. Where students are unable to attend lectures, review of the lecture is required through posted recordings and presentation materials posted on MyUni.

Tutorials
Tutorials are the working space for the subject. Capped at 20 students, this is where the concepts and materials from lectures are discussed, clarified, and applied through small group discussion and collaboration, guided by the tutor. The tutorials are also where the main face-to-face collaborative working arrangements are developed and sustained in order to advance the work leading to the completion of the project books.

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements:
The University expects full‐time students (i.e. those taking 12 units per semester) to devote at least 48 hours per week to their studies. Accordingly, students undertaking this 3 unit course are expected to devote at the minimum 12 hours per week to contact activities and self‐guided studies.
Based on this framework here are some figures that might assist workload management:
Total workload hrs: 12 hours per wk x 14 wks (inc. of mid‐semester break) = 168 hours
Total contact hours: 3 hours per week x 12 weeks = 36 hours
Total self‐guided study: 168 – 36 hours = 132 hours
These 132 hours should be used towards for working on the various assignments associated with the course, including development of requisite research, knowledge, and skills. Please organise your time wisely!

W1: Introduction to Cities and Climate Change
W2: Low Carbon, Zero Waste and Resilient Cities
W3: Healthy, Liveable and Biophilic Cities
W4: CoA Strategic Plan and Urban Greening
W5: Urban Microclimates
W6: Outdoor Thermal and Wind Comfort
W7: Public Space and Public Life
W8: Urban Cooling Strategies
W9: Case Studies of Sustainable Urban Design - online
W10: Case Studies of Urban Heat Adaptation
W11: Green, water and energy in the city
W12: Final Remarks
W13: Students presentation

Failure to attend teaching due to medical, compassionate or extenuating circumstances is dealt with the School Policy, administered by the School Office. Submit the appropriate application for supplementary consideration together with the original signed medical or other relevant officer, to the School Office. If you foresee a problem contact the Course Coordinator BEFORE the problem actually occurs. Otherwise, contact the Course Coordinator as soon as possible and submit the appropriate application for supplementary consideration to the School Office.

A majority of teaching and learning excercises during tutorials are caries via small group discovery experience when students analyse urban environmental issues from different points of view. 
Assignment 2b presentation is a small group discovery experience.
Assignment 3 is a small group discovery experience.

Assignment 1: Urban Environment Reading (20% individual)
Assignment 2a: Outdoor microclimate assessment (20% individual)
Assignment 2b: Site microclimate simulation (20% group)
Assignment 3: Designing for Sustainable Adelaide (20% group)
Weekly online tasks (20% individual)

To do well, students need to participate in all class activities. Please make sure you attend regularly and come prepared for class.

*Assignment 1 is an individual task (20%)
In Assignment 1 students prepare a short essay based on but not limited to a text reading on urban microclimates.
Each student should select one chapter of the source book introduced bellow and provide:
Body text - 1000 words (LaTeX: \pm ± 10%) excluding references
An original (student's owned) figure/table/chart/photo/sketch to support the essay topic
Acceptable file formats are PDF and DOC(X)

The source book:
Santamouris M. & Kolokotsa D. (2016). Urban Heat Mitigation Techniques. Routledge.
This book is available as an e-book from UofA Library at:
https://www-taylorfrancis-com.proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/books/e/9781315765839

Each individual should select one of the following chapters for this assignment:
CH2 Understanding and reducing the anthropogenic heat emission
CH3 Valuing green spaces as a heat mitigation technique
CH4 Mitigating the urban heat with cool materials for the buildings’ fabric
CH5 Cool pavements to mitigate urban heat islands
CH6 The effect of evaporative cooling techniques on reducing urban heat
CH7 Exploiting earth cooling to mitigate heat on cities’ scale

Assignment requirements:
There should be at least 10 additional citations (Author, Date) including two related to a controversial concept or a critique to the chapter concept (possibly from the other chapters).
The original (student's owned) figure/table/chart/photo/sketch should be embedded in the text with proper notation (instructions will be provided in the tutorials).

This assignment is assessed based on research qualities in architecture and urban design standards including:

argument development
citation sufficiency, style and accuracy
original writing (plagiarism standards - max acceptable similarity rate (Turnitin): 20% overall)
proper usage of Language and grammar
presentation quality and clarity

Submission format: PDF/DOC(X)

*Assignment 2a is an individual task (20%)
In Assignment 2a students collect and analyse urban microclimate and surface cover data in the City of Adelaide. This assignment addresses the ongoing strategies on urban greening and public space and public life enhancement in the City of Adelaide.
Essential instruments (i.e. IR thermometer) will be provided to the students. Standard data collection sheets and guides can be downloaded from Software and Data Collection Resources.

Assignment requirements:
Students are to select an accessible common urban surface material (i.e. concrete, asphalt, paving, roof tile, metal roof sheet, grass or a building cladding.
Each student observe and records surface temperature of a 2 samples of the chosen surface material (shaded-unshaded) 18 times during sunny/partly cloudy days at/around 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm and 8pm (this means 3 days of recordings for 6x2 records per day).
The collected data for shaded and unshaded locations should be analysed, compared and discussed appropriately via tables, graphs and text.
Research and find a cool-labeled variation of your surface material. Find out the cooling capacity of the cool material compared with your data (i.e. how many degrees). Use appropriate referencing.

Submission format:
Collected data in Excel file
A4 report (max 5 pages) in PDF/DOC

*Assignment 2b is a group work (groups of 3-4 students)
assignment addresses the ongoing strategies on urban greening and public space and public life enhancement in the City of Adelaide.

Sites:
Grote Street between West Tce and Morphett Street
Bowen St between the Joinery (ie. old Bus Station) and new Bus Station
Gate 20 lane of University of Adelaide between North Tce and Hub Central

Assignment requirements:
Every group compares the outcome of their assignment 2a results
Every group simulates and analyse microclimate conditions in their site via ENVI-met (21 June and 21 December 8am to 8pm - every 3 hours)
Every group models shading conditions in their site via Rhino/SketchUp (21 June and 21 December 8am to 8pm - every 3 hours)

Submission format: PowerPoint slides (max 20 - MyUni upload)
One submission is enough for each group when names and responsibilities are appropriately addressed.

*Assignment 3 is a group task (3-4 students)
In Assignment 3 students propose design options to enhance environmental and social sustainability in their site (analysed in Assignment 2b).

Site:
Same as Assignment 2b

Assignment requirements:
Site microclimates (extended outdoor thermal comfort) via permanent/temporary architectural/landscape features
Site environmental sustainability (e.g. using water sensitive urban design, renewable energies and etc.)
Compare before and after design scenarios via graphics and simulation for summer, winter and spring/autumn weather conditions (use findings of simulation and data analysis of assignment 2b to make logical design decisions)

Submission format: A0 Poster
Posters should include context, analysis and design
Posters should be printed and be presented by the group on W13
A 300dpi PDF version of the posters should be uploaded to MyUni on W13

Every week there is an online quiz as part of the tutorial/workshop that will be accessible on Mondays after the lecture at 10am and has to be completed by 10pm of the same day. The online component has 2 multiple choice questions each week and assesses the students' uptakes of the course contents and is accounted 20% of the final grade in ENV III.

Task/Assignment No. & Name	Due date	Time	Weight	Submission Method
Assignment 1: Urban Environment Reading	12 Aug	10pm	20	online
Assignment 2a: Outdoor microclimate assessment	23 Sep	10pm	20	online
Assignment 2b: Site microclimate simulation	7 Oct	10pm	20	online
Assignment 3: Designing for Sustainable Adelaide	4 Nov	10pm	20	online and presentation
Weekly Quizzes	Mondays	10pm	20	online via MyUni