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A design studio in US academic architecture education is both a space and a learning experience, as noted by Schoen ( 1983). This paper presents an approach that uses the structure of the existing architectural curriculum and adapts one of the key courses: the design studio. Therefore, carbon-neutral buildings need to be embedded within a holistic education towards sustainable architecture and cities.ДЄ key question that arises is how can architectural education respond to providing graduates with new knowledge and skills to create low- or zero-carbon buildings? Given the very short amount of time to implement change and reduce the negative impacts of existing and new buildings, there is an imperative to connect the social contract with a natural contract as proposed in the above quotation by Michel Serres.

However, buildings are complex socio-technical entities, embedded in a socialвЂ“culturalвЂ“economicвЂ“climatic context, and carbon or energy cannot be considered in isolation.

Since 1990, вЂthe negawatt revolutionвЂ™ ( Lovins 1990) has been promoted for the economic and environmental benefits arising from a significant reduction of building energy/carbon. A rapid reduction in carbon emissions (both embodied and operational) are needed to achieve the Paris AgreementвЂ™s goal to limit global warming. The impact of buildings on the changing climate and resource depletion leads to the demand for carbon-neutral buildings as one major aspect of the 17 United NationsвЂ™ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ( UN 2020). The goal of carbon neutrality is one of a group of goals that brings sustainable communities and environmental justice together ( Agyeman 2005).Д«uildings exist at the interface between the social and the new natural contract. The United NationsвЂ™ (UN) Brundtland Report ( Brundtland 1987) defines sustainability as a social, economic, and environmental and cultural goal of societies to meet the needs of today without compromising the needs of future generations. Through exclusively social contracts, we have abandoned the bond that connect us to the world, the one that binds the time passing and flowing to the weather outside, the bond that relates the social sciences to the sciences of the universe, history to geography, law to nature, politics to physics, the bond that allows our language to communicate with mute, passive, obscure things-things that, because of our excesses, are recovering voice, presence, activity, light. Keywords: architects, climate change, design methods, design studio, education, energy, pedagogy, zero carbon DOI: This can help to accelerate the education of architectural students towards carbon neutrality. The workflow can be easily adopted by other architectural courses and practices. Learning these skills made architectural students better equipped to address sustainable design in their career. An alumni survey provides insights into the relevance and impact of this approach on their career. An architectural studio approach allows students to integrate and predict the dynamic performances of light, sun, heat, and air movement, based on using an innovative, highly structured workflow method.

A new approach to architectural education is shown to equip architecture students to meet this challenge. The architectural profession is moving toward the creation of carbon-neutral buildings. A majority reported the positive learning outcomes and importance to their current career. In an effort to understand the impact of this pedagogical approach on the career of former students, a survey was sent to the graduates of the past five years. A specific emphasis is placed on the iterative feedback between daylighting, natural ventilation, and the buildingвЂ™s enclosure.

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This pedagogical approach has been used in ARCH 601, a required sustainable design studio in the second year of the professional Master of Architecture program at Iowa State University, US. A highly structured 10-stage workflow for architectural design equips students with knowledge, tools, and processes to integrate and predict dynamic performances of light, sun, heat, and air movement in their design decisions. A new pedagogical approach to the architectural studio is presented that specifically responds to this challenge. These demands challenge conventional educational building design and architecture programs. The urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions radically creates additional demands for architectural education and practice. Sustainable design for carbon-neutral buildings requires a thorough understanding of environmental building performance.

A design workflow for integrating performance into architectural education Methods A design workflow for integrating performance into architectural education Authors: Abstract